Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common roundup of probably the most enjoyable geeky merch round. This week, the Transformers get into the vacation spirit, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s new hero will get a brand new Hot Toys determine, and all hail the gooiest Star Wars toys round. Check it out!

Hasbro Transformers Generations Holiday Optimus Prime

Even the ho-ho-holidays want defending from the Decepticons, so this yr Optimus Prime is stepping as much as the job with a whole festive makeover together with a sweet cane-striped trailer and blaster, inexperienced tinted home windows, a literal snow-weathered paint job, and an Autobots emblem donning a Santa hat. Instead of a Mack, Prime is dressing up as a Volvo truck this yr, and goes from truck to robotic mode in 37 steps. It’s available for pre-order from Hasbro Pulse for $56, with transport anticipated as early as December this yr.

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SabersPro

For the Star Wars fan with every part.
These lightsabers powered by Neopixels, LED strips that run contained in the blade form that enable for adjustable colours, interactive sounds, and altering animation results when dueling.

Hot Toys Marvel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Black Panther Sixth-Scale Figure

A brand new Black Panther film and a brand new Black Panther can solely imply one factor: a brand new Hot Toys Black Panther determine! Whoever the mysterious new heir of the mantle could possibly be remains to be being stored secret in advertising, however Hot Toys has confirmed that its new determine—which comes with alternate fingers, in addition to each a set of Vibranium gauntlets in addition to a spear—will certainly include an unmasked headsculpt of the hero, presumably to be revealed at a later, Marvel-sanctioned date. You can in all probability guess who it’s, or at the very least you’ll have loads of time to: the determine is about to launch in early 2024. Now that’s a spoiler embargo and a half! [Hot Toys]

Lego Lunar New Year Parade

Every yr Lego helps ring within the Chinese New Year with elaborately detailed and colourful units, and with 2023 getting underway on January 22 because the yr of the rabbit, Lego is celebrating with a 1,653-piece Lunar New Year Parade set. Three connectable floats make up the parade, with an enormous rabbit main the best way, adopted by an ornate dragon, and a minifigure drummer that really kilos away on a big drum via an animated mechanism. The $130 set will probably be available for purchase starting on January 10 forward of the festivities, and can embody a formidable 18 minifigures donning varied costumes, together with a rabbit getup.

Threezero Transformers MDLX Rodimus Prime

We hear all of your complaints about Transformers toys that don’t really rework, and are completely satisfied to dismiss them when Threezero is creating incredible figures like this MDLX Rodimus Prime that packs 46 factors of articulation right into a seven-inch tall body. Made from a mixture of plastic and die-cast zinc alloy so that you simply know this determine’s obtained some satisfying heft, Rodimus is completed with a calmly weathered paint job and features a laser blaster and blaster rifle that mix right into a photon eliminator rifle, in addition to eight units of interchangeable fingers. It’s available for pre-order from Hasbro Pulse for $80, however refill on persistence as a result of it’s not anticipated to ship till September of subsequent yr.

Stretch Star Wars Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, and Stormtrooper

Stretch Armstrong taught just a few generations that they didn’t essentially should handle their toys. The determine could possibly be stretched to incomprehensible lengths, and would finally shrink again to its authentic type, seemingly fully unhurt. It’s a toy that’s been round for 46 years, however someway toymakers solely only in the near past realized that children would love the prospect to stretch out different characters too, together with Star Wars favorites like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Stormtroopers, and even Jabba the Hutt. UK retailer Smyths Toys lists them all for about $18 every after foreign money conversion, though Jabba is seemingly the most important of the lot and can set you again $47 as a substitute.

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