New York Toy Fair 2015 is in full swing, and although there's not been much in the way of big announcements, Funko came out swinging with a booth filled with brilliant toys. More Pop vinyls! More ReAction toys! Firefly Action figures! Come gawp at the prettiest toys there.
There have been many Lego TIE Fighters over the years, but none quite like this: behold, the Ultimate Collectors Series TIE Fighter, unveiled at New York Toy Fair!
What do you mean, February isn't the time to be thinking about Halloween? It's perfect time! Plus, you're going to need the next 8 months to recover from the screaming/laughing fit you'll get from these official Age of Ultron costumes. Look at that Ultron mask. Look at it.
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Ah, remember the heady days of November 2014 when everyone was freaking out about Kylo Ren's swish new Lightsaber? Well, Hasbro recently announced a new line of Star Wars toys that will let you make Lightsabers that are a hell of a lot more crazy than Ren's wee little lightsaber crossguard.
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Experimental comic storytelling and adapting Lovecraft's nightmares for young kids lead the charge in our look at all things crowdfunding this week, but that's not all - there's amazing VR game to experience the Moon landing in first person, badass fantasy figures, and more!
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Star Trek: The Original Series is no stranger to retro action figures - hell, it got its own Mego line in the 70's, and there were the 90's playmates figures. But now Funko are turning their ReAction series to Trek for a third swing at the retro bat, and the first figures are pretty decent.
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Arrow has had a few action figures to its name, but somehow it's taken this long to get a plastic incarnation of everyone's favourite hacker badass, Felicity Smoak. Well, huzzah - DC Collectibles have unveiled her figure as well as new figures based on The Flash and Batman: The Animated Series too!
Whenever someone questions the logic of a film, book or TV show, it's almost inevitable someone will trot out Alan Moore's 'This is an Imaginary Story' quote from Superman #423 in response. But they're using it wrong - and in the process, completely missing the point of what Moore was saying.
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It's maybe not so weird that there's not been any merchandise for Interstellar yet. I mean, it's not really the sort of film that craves action figures. But if there were toys of the weird robots from the film, I'd buy them in an instant - or, as Redditor Espiffany did, build some!
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Following their big success on Kickstarter last year, Warpo's old-school style series of Lovecraftian action figures Legends of Cthulhu are getting a wider release as of today. But soon, their Cthulhu figure is getting a bumper-sized version — and io9 has an exclusive first look!
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And no, we're not talking about Pop! Vinyls, for once (they already have those, of course). We've known for a while that Funko would bring Firefly to its Legacy Collection line of 6" figures, but it looks like their reveal will be imminent, judging by these blurry images from Funko's Toy Fair catalogue.
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Age of Ultron's big bad can look awfully creepy when he's working those James Spader-y robo eyeballs of his - and it looks like Hot Toys have captured them pretty perfectly in their latest figure. I'm not sure I want this figure on my desk, his eyes boring into my soul in judgement. Quit being so judgy, Ultron!
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The Rebels have had their turn, now it's the time of the Empire to join Marvel's new stories in the Galaxy far, far away. Plus, Valiant's intriguing new sci-fi series about a Communist astronaut transformed into a god, a new Dresden Files story, and enough Graphic Novels and Collection to last you a life time.
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Cryptozoic Entertainment are turning Ghostbusters into an episodic, co-operative tabletop game, and have taken to Kickstarter to secure funding for it. And honestly, although the idea of A Ghostbusters game on paper doesn't sound like it could be all that interesting, it looks pretty rad.
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It's a pretty exciting week in games, what with the release of not only Evolve, the new monster based competitive co-op game and new Nintendo hardware. What are you playing this week? Picking something new up? Come tell us in this week's edition of Tuesday Game Room!
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The cast of Star Wars have been turned into a plethora of things over the years as the Merchandising empire trudges ever onwards - potato people, transformers, you name it. But I'm pretty sure this new set of toys from Bandai might be the first to turn them into transforming Eggs.
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Yesterday we got a brief tease of Sentinel's latest Iron Man 'Re:Edit' figure, alongside their snazzy upcoming Hulkbuster toy - but now the company has released a full set of pictures showing off the Extremis Iron Man figure, and it's looking rather fabulous. And glowy! Very glowy.
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Before you start saying 'Wait, there was something good in Revolutions?', look! Giant, wonderful mech toys! Forget about literally everything else in the movie.
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Over the years, Superman's level of power has fluctuated perhaps more than any other hero's — he's gained them, lost them, grown weaker and stronger pretty much from the moment he was created, culminating in the addition of a new power last week. Here's your guide to the Man of Steel's power creep.
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Sure, he might have a head big enough to thwack against every single blast door in the Death Star, but for a faceless soldier in the massive army of a ruthless empire, this lil' Stormie is just so darn cute. What Rebel Scum wouldn't stop if they were cornered by this chap?
