Category: Cool Toys

Modeled after everyone’s favorite foursome of Staten Island vampires (plus their human familiar Guillermo), this collection of What We Do in the Shadows Phunny plushies from KidRobot is the perfect addition to your Halloween decor.…

Scheduled for release on November 6th in time for Christmas (how convenient), the latest Super Mario LEGO set will be this 540-piece Piranha Plant. And, unlike some of the other recent Super Mario LEGO sets, this one will be reasonably priced at just $60.…

Alibaba, best known for being one of my favorite Friday night inebriated shopping go-tos (I never know what’s going to show up!), is selling these $3,000 all-electric mini-tanks.…

Because LEGO is forever looking for ways to dig deep into my pockets, their latest wallet-emptying Star Wars set comes in the form of a 5,374-piece Ultimate Collectors Series Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser.…

Constructed by German LEGOManiacs Christoph, Tobias, Hendrik, René, and Markus, this 500,000-piece minifig scale build of the Star Wars Galactic Senate is a real marvel. Just look at all those Senator pods, there must be a million of them!…

Created by toymaker Super7, Zombeef is a character that’s part of the company’s ‘Weirdest ReAction Figures’ line, featuring “Villainous rejects on a path of particular pandemonium.”…

Constructed by David Hall of Solid Brix Studios and friends, this massive LEGO diorama of the Star Wars Battle of Geonosis features over 250,000 pieces, numerous different scenes of the battle, and lots of Easter eggs.…

Helping prove there is very little you can’t build out of cardboard and ingenuity, YouTuber The S took it upon himself to construct the Ultra Giga Launcher, a cardboard weapon capable of firing three gas-powered projectiles.…

For the Marvel-loving, LEGO-building fan in your life (maybe it’s you!) comes this Captain America’s Shield LEGO set. The 3,128-piece set costs $200 and comes together to form an impressive reproduction of the superhero’s shield, with a diameter of 18.5″.…

Proving there isn’t anything you can’t build with LEGO (including furry humanoids), LEGO has just announced an 18″ Chewbacca build set ($200) scheduled for release this September.…

A faithful recreation of the Xenomorph seen in the first Alien movie, this 1:2 scale model from Agora Models stands four feet tall and will make the perfect addition to my foyer to greet me when I come home.…

After deciding LEGO set #75353 Endor Speeder Chase just wasn’t dynamic enough for his taste, LEGO builder JK Brickworks decided to turn the set into a kinetic sculpture, with the two speeder bikes strafing back and forth with the turn of a crank.…

Dissatisfied with how the original toy just stands there, not doing anything, engineer James Bruton decided to build himself a walking robotic version of a Hasbro AT-AT toy.…

Officially licensed and produced by Numskull, this 1/4 scale replica of the 1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Turtles In Time arcade machine is actually playable! Which, for $300, it better be.…

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the McNugget’s first appearance on menus in 1983, McDonald’s China offered McNugget-shaped handheld gaming systems that play Tetris. Available for 30 yuan (~$4.25) with any purchase, the 400,000 systems manufactured quickly sold out.…

Combining two of my favorite things (LEGO and video games), LEGO has announced a build set in the form of a Pac-Man arcade machine. The 2,651-piece kit includes a marquee with rotating Pac-Man and ghosts on top, a coin slot that lights up with the push of a button, and game characters that move on-screen when a crank is turned on the side of the machine.…