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Holy Merchandising, Batman, It’s the Best Toys of the Week!

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Holy Merchandising, Batman, It’s the Best Toys of the Week!

Marvel's Loki's Sylvie gets a Hasbro Marvel Legends, Lego brings Bowser's Airship to its Super Mario line, and McFarlane takes on Batman '66.

Image: Hasbro, McFarlane, and Lego

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common round-up of the latest and best plastic-based information. This week: Loki brings its newest thriller to the toy shelf, McFarlane goes retro with the Bright Knight, and Donald Duck (and his nephews) get some adorably animated figures. Check it out!


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Beast Kingdom Dynamic 8ction Heroes Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie Figures

In March we bid a teary goodbye to Duck Tales… once more… and if that’s an excessive amount of so that you can bear in the course of a pandemic, you possibly can fill these Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck-sized holes in your coronary heart with ninth-scale Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck figures from Beast Kingdom. The latest additions to the corporate’s Dynamic 8ction Heroes line all function 12 factors of articulation, and whereas the fowl triplets every stand three inches tall, Uncle Donald is somewhat over six inches. You can pre-order Huey, Dewey, and Louie in a three-pack for $90, however Donald is $72 all on his personal.


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Lego Super Mario Bowser’s Airship Expansion Set

With a long time value of video games and adventures to attract from, Lego reveals no indicators of slowing down the growth of its Super Mario interactive playsets. The newest updates embody the addition of Luigi and the power to have two gamers navigating a brick-built stage on the similar time, however extra thrilling than that’s this 1,152-piece Bowser’s Airship set with a compact flying mode that transforms and folds out into an extended fully-playable course. The $100 growth set, which is available for pre-order now and delivery on August 1, additionally consists of Kamek, Rocky Wrench, and Goomba figures, and a huge mechanical model of Bowser’s hand attempting to knock Mario off the craft.


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Mezco Toyz Mezco Designer Series Deluxe Alien

If you need an H.R. Giger nightmare staring down at you all day lengthy out of your toy shelf, then by all means seize the most recent addition to Mezco’s Designer Series: a seven-inch tall model of Alien’s Xenomorph. It’s restricted to only 10 factors of articulation, which might be why you possibly can pre-order one for $50, with delivery anticipated in early 2022, however what it lacks in posability it makes up for with particulars that embody a hinged outer jaw with one other pop-out pharyngeal jaw hidden inside, swappable legs and arms, a posable tail, an ovomorph egg that may be open and closed, and even a facehugger you possibly can slap onto your unsuspecting motion figures.


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McFarlane Toys Batman ‘66 Figures, Batcave, and Batmobile

McFarlane’s been all around the DC Multiverse with its, nicely, DC Multiverse line, however now a brand new vary of Target-exclusive toys is entrenching itself firmly within the Dark Knight’s extra jovial previous: particularly, a brand new line of six-inch scaled (contrasted to the seven-inch of McFarlane’s different major DC product) toys themed across the beloved 1966 Batman TV sequence. Kicking off with three figures depicting Adam West’s Batman, Burt Ward’s Robin, and Cesar Romero’s iconic Joker, the vary additionally consists of an in-scale Batmobile able to seating the dynamic duo, in addition to a fold out playset reproductionroughly 24″ extensive—of the Batcave and its bevy of pc banks as seen within the present. The line is ready to hit Target in August. [Toyark]


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Flash Back Dexter Dexter Morgan Sixth-Scale Figure

If you have been one of many many followers of the sequence Dexter upset by the finale that noticed the lovable serial killer abandoning his household and transferring to Oregon to turn into a lumberjack, you now have the prospect to recreate the character’s destiny nonetheless you see match with Flash Back’s 12-inch fully articulated version of Michael C. Hall. The determine consists of two outfits—one an upstanding citizen on the facet of the legislation, and the opposite an apron-donning serial killer getting ready to take care of a sufferer—in addition to two swappable head sculpts, 9 arms, and equipment that embody a fully-stocked knife roll and a blood slide field. Pre-orders are available now, with the $280 determine arriving someday in early 2022.


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Hasbro Monopoly: Target Edition

You can finally experience the joy of browsing the toy section at Target for new versions of Monopoly at home with a Target-themed version of Monopoly that has players shopping for random stuff at Target instead of buying properties. Makes sense, right? Like a slightly less confusing version of a Christopher Nolan flick, the latest version of the board game includes miniature versions of Target’s iconic red shopping baskets, but instead of cashing out whenever you pass GO, players purchase items in their basket and earn saving tokens, and at the end of the game the player who’s saved the most money wins. Pre-orders are available starting today for $25, with in-store availability starting in August. Stay tuned for the inevitable Walmart and Amazon versions next.


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Hasbro Marvel Legends Loki Sylvie

Loki may only be half way through, but that’s not going to stop Hasbro from teasing toys from the time-twisting adventure. While Loki in his “Variant” jacket provided by the TVA was already turned into a figure for the first wave of Disney+ inspired toys, now Hasbro has teased that it’s bringing Sophia Di Martino’s mysterious Sylvie to the line too. While no major details were released, the figure comes with her sword, and at least one dynamic hand to pose her enchanting her enemies… and frenemies. The figure is due to release for fall, and will retail for the usual Marvel Legends price of around $22-25. [Toyark]


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Hog Wild Wing Ball

Even fundamental highschool physics will let you know that punching an enormous gap via an airplane will severely inhibit its capability to fly. But Hog Wild has radically reimagined the design of the traditional Nerf foam soccer with the Wing Ball, a hole tube that may apparently outperform a conventional pigskin and fly farther and sooner, even for those who’re not a seasoned quarterback. The Wing Ball is basically a single aerodynamic wing that’s curved in order that each ends meet and fix to type a tube. No matter its orientation to the bottom it generates elevate, and for those who’ve received a throwing arm that doubles as a cannon, the $15 toy can apparently hit airspeeds of as much as 88 miles per hour.


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