Adding to their growing line of Avengers figures, Hot Toys recently released photos of their heavily armed and detailed 1:6 scale Hawkeye figure. The figure stands roughly 30 cm tall and features about 30 points of articulation as well as 6 interchangeable palms, several swappable figure tabs, one quiver, two bows, 16 arrows and 11 arrowheads.
There doesn’t appear to be any details about a price or release date, but you can check out several photos after the break.
If you’ve always dreamed of a world where all your Lego, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Gears! Gears!, K’Nex, Krinkles (Bristle Blocks), Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Zome and/or Zoob pieces could be used together, behold the Free Universal Construction Kit. The kit offers free plans for almost 80 different adapter blocks that can be created with a household 3D printer and used to interconnect any combination of the above mentioned construction sets.
However, before you jump in, it should be noted that you might need to perform some manual adjustments on the resulting pieces due to the fact that most 3D printers don’t have the resolution required to perfectly duplicate the tolerances necessary to make pieces snap perfectly together:
Lego bricks interact with each other so smoothly thanks to manufacturing tolerances on the order of 10 microns, while most affordable personal 3D printers (like Makerbots) have an X-Y resolution of about 100 microns and a layer thickness almost four times worse than that.
If you’re still on board, you can check out a video overview of the set after the jump.
I can’t resist cute, and when adorable is paired with Star Wars I may as well just hand over my wallet. The new Pop! Vinyl designs announced at Toy Fair are available for pre-order and will be shipping in July. You can get drool-y but still lovable Jabba, Slave Leia, Rebel pilot Luke, a Jawa, a not-so-fierce Tusken Raider, and even a Clone Trooper. My shelf is going to fill up with these guys way too fast.
View photos of more adorable Pop! Vinyl designs after the break. [click to continue…]
Last month Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum debuted both Spider-Man and the Lizard Minimates at Toy Fair. Now the company is revealing the additional characters that will become part of the line, including Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Gwen Stacy, Captain Stacy, a SWAT Team member, pre-Lizzy Curt Connors and a skateboard toting Peter Parker.
The official breakdown looks like this:
Toys “R” Us will get: Peter Parker and Spider-Man, Battle-Damaged Spider-Man and The Lizard, Vigilante Spider-Man and Captain Stacy (exclusive), Gwen Stacy and Dr. Curt Connors (exclusive). Comic shops and specialty stores will get: Peter Parker and Spider-Man, Battle-Damaged Spider-Man and The Lizard, Uncle Ben and SWAT Officer (exclusive), Aunt May (rare variant) and SWAT Officer (exclusive).
Although they won’t be released until the summer, you can pre-order the comic and specialty store line after the break (where you will also find a photo of the Toys “R” Us line).
NECA Online just released photos of new extreme Head Knockers for The Dark Knight Rises that are slated for release in June. They’re essentially hardcore bobbleheads. Bane is much less scary when he’s wobbly.
Check out the Bane Head Knocker after the break.
When The Phantom Menace was released in theaters the first time around, the amount of available merchandise was insane. Retailers overestimated what fans would buy, and the market is left with a glut of Jar Jar tongue themed toys and loads of Pepsi tie-in products. As it turns out, plenty of concepts for toys and merchandise were rejected. Before the release, Jason Geyer and his co-workers were asked to design some concepts for Episode I. The fun part? They’d never seen the movie. Until they won the job, they had to use original trilogy characters and then the plan was to modify it to fit the new story.
It resulted in hundreds of concepts. Some of them are generic products just for Star Wars and several are designed with the Pepsi contract in mind. They’ve got everything covered; you’ll find a range of concepts including a Darth Vader Lava Lamp (want!), a R2-D2 travel thermos, and everything in between. I wouldn’t mind owning most of these sad, forsaken designs.
Check out a gallery some of our favorites after the break.
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of ThreeA Toys’ 1/48-scale Metal Gear Rex, you’ll be happy to know that the company has announced that it will go on sale March 2 at 9 a.m. Hong Kong time (8 p.m. March 1 Eastern) in the Bambaland store for a price of US$490.
In addition to the release info, several new photos have also hit the net, which you can check out after the break—one of which shows you just how big this thing really is.
You’ve probably heard of Burning Man. The event spans across several days in the dry, hot desert and hosts people from all walks of life. There are themed camps, art installations, and all kinds of craziness. It’s getting harder and harder to get tickets though; Burning Man has that in common with San Diego Comic-Con. So if you can’t go, you can at least get some laughs out of this fake, custom Lego kit designed by Simon Pearce and Mary Elise Chavez. It’s an instant “theme camp in a box”.
Check out some close-up photos after the break.
I never knew I wanted custom Lego minifigs of the characters in Blade Runner until I saw them. Builder Legohaulic has designed minifigs of the good guys, the bad guys, and even a vehicle. Every detail is captured, right down to Pris’ face make-up. If only these were real and available for purchase!
Check out photos of Replicant minifigs and Deckard’s spinner after the break.
The latest Super Soaker from Nerf is going to make hot days a lot more entertaining. Their Lightning Storm model was released at Toy Fair and holds a whopping 35 ounces of liquid. That reservoir clocks in at the largest yet. You can shoot opponents from as far away as 25 feet. It will be ready for attack in spring of this year.
View a few more photos of the water gun after the break.
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