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This Week’s Best Toys Are the Ultimate Fright… For Your Wallet

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This Week’s Best Toys Are the Ultimate Fright… For Your Wallet

NECA Universal Monsters x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo, Hot Toys What If Infinite Ultron, and Hasbro's Haslabs G.I. Joe Skystriker.

Image: NECA, Hot Toys, and Hasbro

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common roundup of all the newest in wallet-crushing merchandise alternatives. This week, Hasbro ramps up one other crowdfunder challenge for a G.I. Joe basic, Hot Toys asks the query of What If, and NECA’s newest monster line comes with a turtle-y twist. Check it out!


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Hasbro HasLab G.I. Joe Skystriker

The G.I. Joe toy line of the ‘80s is most fondly remembered for the massive USS Flagg aircraft carrier playset that seemed as large as a dinner table. But an aircraft carrier is nothing without aircraft, and the G.I. Joe Skystriker played just as important role in imaginary childhood warfare. Will Hasbro ever resurrect the USS Flagg? Stranger things have happened, but through its HasLab crowdfunding platform, the toy maker is now bringing back the Skystriker fighter with a new $230 model with more detailing, decals, and accessories than the original.

The toy will even include two classic G.I. Joe O-ring figures—Ace and Wayne Ruthel—but HasLab is looking for 10,000 backers before early December to put this into production, and right now the campaign is sitting at just over 4,500. C’mon, folks, we are able to’t let Cobra rise once more.


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Hot Toys Marvel’s What If…? Infinity Ultron Sixth-Scale Diecast Figure

Hot Toys’ quest to show What If’s animated heroes (and villains) into hyper-realistic motion figures continues with a very shiny tackle the massive unhealthy of the primary season, the Infinity-Stone wielding final evolution of Ultron that decides it’s far more enjoyable conquering a multiverse than a single actuality. Dubbed Infinity Ultron, the huge 15″ figure comes with his lance and some alternate posing hands and… well, that’s pretty much it, actually. Infinity Ultron makes up for it with a bunch of extra features embedded into the figure itself: parts of the armor use diecast metal elements for extra sheen, his cloth cape is posable through an embedded wire, and LED functions light up the helmet pieces and the six Infinity Stones inserted into the chestplate and helmet too. If that wasn’t enough, the Helmet actually opens up to reveal the creepy face of the Vision beneath. You’ll have to wait until, most likely, a What If season two or three is out before you can get the chance to buy him though: Infinity Ultron is due for release in a late 2022-2023. [Hot Toys]


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Hasbro Nerf LMTD Halo Needler

Following the giant and extensively detailed recreation of the Halo Infinite MA40 Assault Rifle from almost two years ago, Nerf is finally adding a premier version of the Needler to its Halo collection. Its 10-shot barrel that fires Nerf Elite darts is complemented with flexible needles and other accents that light up when the handle is gripped—powered by six AA batteries hidden inside. A display stand is also included, as well as a display mode that activates all of the blaster’s light-up features without having to hold it. At $100 it’s twice as expensive as the Nerf Halo Infinite MA40 Assault Rifle, and is available for pre-order on Hasbro Pulse with delivery expected sometime in January of next year.


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Hasbro G.I. Joe Retro Collection Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow O-Ring Figures

Got a nostalgic hankering for G.I. Joe however choose the unique 3.75-inch figures of your youth? If you don’t need to shell out huge bucks for the Skystriker redux, Hasbro has additionally launched a classic O-ring figure two-pack by Hasbro Pulse that features mortal enemies Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, with all of their authentic equipment and genuine card again packaging. The solely factor that’s modified is the value tag: the duo will set you again $40 for those who determine to pre-order the set today, with supply anticipated in early 2022.


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NECA Universal Monsters x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Through its website and official Instagram account, NECA has been teasing a brand new crossover determine line that includes mashups of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Universal’s basic film monsters. We don’t what your entire lineup of the 7-inch figures will embrace (with Halloween only a few days away and bringing and finish to the spooky season, NECA higher hurry up), however the first two reveals are Raphael as Frankenstein’s Monster and Leonardo as Ygor the Hunchback. The detailing appears to be like completely superb for a 7-inch fig, together with genuine costumes and every turtle’s weapons tailor-made for his or her monsterous alter egos. Pricing isn’t recognized, however the figures are anticipated to ship someday in January of subsequent 12 months.


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NECA Gargoyles Hudson Figure

NECA continues to tease its new determine line primarily based on the animated Disney Gargoyles collection from the ‘90s through the company’s Instagram account, with the smart outdated Hudson being the newest reveal. There’s not a lot information on what equipment he’ll embrace apart from the sword on his belt, however the stage of element on this line (the place can we get a leather-based breastplate like that?) continues to impress.


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NECA The Evil Dead Ultimate Ash Williams Figure

To assist rejoice the fortieth anniversary of the unique The Evil Dead’s theatrical debut, NECA’s obtained a new Ash Williams figure en route, however supply isn’t anticipated till early subsequent 12 months. It’s a reminder of simply how younger Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell had been after they began the Evil Dead franchise, and whereas it’s too early to know pricing particulars, NECA’s Instagram account seems to have revealed most of Ash’s equipment, together with an axe, trusty chainsaw, and rifle—aka his boomstick.


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Lego Art Project – Create Together

The newest addition to the Lego Art line, the place coloured 1×1 studs may be assembled into a bigger mosaic to create popular culture masterpieces worthy of area on a wall, is the brand new Create Together set. It comes with 4,138-pieces and 9 instruction manuals permitting a bunch of individuals to create smaller particular person items that may be mixed into a bigger themed group afterwards. The themes embrace meals, patterns, icons, and pursuits, and the $120 set is available for pre-order now, with supply anticipated in early December.


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Munipals

If you’ve obtained youngsters at residence and an enormous structure of Brio picket trains and tracks gobbling up ground area someplace, now you can upgrade your railway with automobiles primarily based on the general public transit methods of locations like New York, Chicago, and New Jersey. The particular person Munipals cars will set you back $17 each, which is pricier than most of Brio’s offerings, but feature authentic paint and deco that reflects the trains used to haul commuters in major cities across the country—minus the graffiti, vomit, and other mystery stains that are best left a mystery.


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