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The Week’s Best Toys Are All Aboard the Goat Boat

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The Week’s Best Toys Are All Aboard the Goat Boat

Mattel's Lightyear Jetpack Liftoff Buzz Lightyear, Lego's Thor: Love and Thunder Jane Foster Mighty Thor, and ThreeZero's Robo-Dou Voltron.

Image: Mattel, Lego, and ThreeZero

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common spherical up of the newest in wallet-sapping toy and merchandise information. This week: Lego provides us one other glimpse at Thor: Love and Thunder’s Mighty Thor and her pals, a basic Voltron will get up to date, and… brace yourselves, it’s toys primarily based on the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy relies on. Check it out!


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Lego Marvel Thor: Love and Thunder The Goat Boat

You’d be forgiven in case you thought we meant our first good luck on the upcoming Marvel blockbuster Thor: Love And Thunder featured the best Lego boat of all time. Instead, the Goat Boat is actually precisely that, a longboat pulled by two magical goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr—who predate the comedian e book character and are a part of precise Norse lore—pulling the OG Thor’s chariot. The $50, 564-piece set won’t be available until April 26, however has already given us a take a look at new and returning characters with its 5 included minifigures: Thor, Mighty Thor, Valkyrie, Korg, and Gorr—with Stormbreaker and Mjolnir showing to hitch the get together too.


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Disney and Pixar Lightyear Jetpack Liftoff Buzz Lightyear Figure

You can’t have a Pixar film and not using a new toy line, so Mattel is getting issues underway for Lightyear with this Jetpack Liftoff Buzz Lightyear 11.5-inch determine. Although primarily based on the actual Buzz Lightyear character and never the motion determine come to life from the Toy Story films, this determine does embrace button-activated phrases from the film and pop-out jetpack wings. But the most effective function is a gas cell squeeze bottle that fills the determine with water that’s used to provide a vapor path impact, full with accent lights, each time the toy is picked up and flown round. Neat!, however is it $50 neat when obtainable this fall?


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Hot Toys Peacemaker Peacemaker Sixth-Scale Figure

Do ya actually wanna, do ya actually wanna style it? The better part about James Gunn taking up the Suicide Squad franchise could very nicely be John Cena’s portrayal of Peacemaker: an impossibly violent anti-hero whose sidekick and greatest good friend are each a bald eagle named Eagly. Hot Toys is giving the character the 12-inch figure treatment with 30 factors of articulation, a few swappable polished chrome helmets, an axe, a sword, a sidearm, and a detachable tongue (fairly probably a primary for the model). Availability isn’t anticipated till late 2023, at which level season two of the Peacemaker collection will hopefully be nicely into manufacturing.


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Threezero Voltron: Defender of the Universe ROBO-DOU Voltron

Most Voltron toys sacrifice accuracy for performance, and whereas we’ll by no means complain about assembling a towering robotic from 5 totally different robotic lions, Threezero’s gifted designers have created an obscenely articulated Voltron toy that higher matches the enormous mecha’s look within the unique animated collection. It seems to be like a stable 10.6-inch determine, however the entire thing breaks down into 5 separate lion bots that, when mixed, present an astounding 124 factors of articulation. It’s formally available for pre-order through Threezero’s online store beginning right this moment.


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Hot Wheels R/C The Batman Original Edition Batmobile

If you didn’t have $500 to drop on Hot Wheels’ impressively detailed, 1:10-scale reproduction of the brand new Batmobile from Matt Reeves’ The Batman final fall, you’ve now received a second probability to attain a equally sized RC reproduction that’s barely much less detailed however considerably cheaper. The new Hot Wheels The Batman Original Edition Batmobile features a pistol grip wi-fi distant, working headlights and jet exhaust glow, and 20 minutes of baddie-chasing on a single cost, however tops out at 10 MPH, in comparison with the $500 different that may hit 15 MPH as a substitute. It’s the very same scale, nevertheless, and will value you simply $100 over on the Mattel Creations website.


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Lego Vespa 125

Lego continues to brickenate the most effective in inexpensive European transportation by following up on the Creator Expert Fiat 500 with a beautiful mannequin of a Vespa 125 scooter. You’ll have to attend for March 1 to reach subsequent week to snag the 1,106-piece, $100 set which helps have fun the enduring scooter’s seventy fifth anniversary. The mannequin features a side-mounted entrance wheel, a pair of back and front seats, a detachable cowl revealing a hidden engine, working steering and kickstand, a helmet with goggles, a spare tire, and basket on the again with a flower bouquet inside.


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QMX Qraftworks Papercraft Star Trek ‘PuzzleFleet’ Model Kits

Similar to Wrebbit’s 3D puzzles (however presumably totally different sufficient to maintain everybody out of court docket), QMX’s new Qraftworks mannequin kits are assembled from precision lower puzzle items fabricated from thick foam, permitting 3D recreations of iconic ships from the Star Trek universe to be assembled with out the necessity for glue, interest knives, and even portray. The line options eight ships in complete, together with the unique TV collection Enterprise, the Enterprise D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and even a Klingon Battlecruiser and Bird of Prey. At eight inches lengthy the fashions are sufficiently small to show on a shelf whereas that includes plenty of pre-printed detailing, and are available for pre-order from QMX’s website for $15 every.


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Hasbro Gaming Jenga Maker

More typically than not a night spent taking part in Jenga devolves into utilizing the picket items as constructing blocks for forts, castles, and many others., after the final tower falls. Jenga Maker embraces that concept, and as a substitute of getting gamers making an attempt to re-stack a teetering tower, two groups compete to construct random objects like lobsters or marriage ceremony truffles utilizing a set of various formed constructing blocks. Each crew requires two gamers, nevertheless: one who is aware of what the thing being constructed seems to be like, whereas the opposite does the precise assembling with no data of what the ultimate end result ought to appear to be. Like a visit to Ikea, it appears like an actual acid take a look at for the soundness of a relationship.


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