This Week’s Toy News Has Big Dome Energy

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common spherical up of the most recent in nerdy toys and merchandise. This week, ignore that it’s summer time and get enthusiastic about Christmas with a Star Trek twist! In the meantime, Lego shines a lightweight, and Hot Toys enters the Star Wars Inquisitorius. Check it out!

Lego Ideas Motorized Lighthouse

Proving but once more that there are some grasp Lego builders who don’t work on the firm, Sandro Quattrini’s Motorized Lighthouse submission to the Lego Ideas platform back in 2020 has lastly been revealed as an official set, full with a working lighthouse utilizing an electrical motor, LED lights, and a useful fresnel lens to focus the beam. The 2,065-piece set additionally contains a lighthouse keeper in a cottage with a fire that really glows, a sailor in a rowboat, and a brand new baseplate aspect. You can’t pre-order it but, however beginning on September 1 you may seize the set for $300.

Hot Toys Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Grand Inquisitor Sixth-Scale Figure

Hot Toys’ newest journey into the world of Obi-Wan Kenobi provides its tackle the Grand Inquisitor himself. Complete with alternate palms and totally different mild up blades for his double-bladed saber—together with customary and “motion” blades to make it seem like it’s mid-spin—the determine additionally has a light-up aspect within the chest armor, in addition to a small hologram of Darth Vader to pose with. The Grand Inquisitor is ready to hit cabinets a while between late 2023 and early 2024. [Hot Toys]

Mattel Creations Hot Wheels x DeLorean DMC-12 & Alpha5 Collector Set

Will the reborn DeLorean Alpha5 electrical automotive ever see the sunshine of day as a manufacturing automobile and never only a idea? It joins an ever-growing listing of idea EVs which are taking their candy time coming to market, however just like the MIA Tesla Cybertruck, we’re at the very least getting a Hot Wheels model of the smooth automobile. In truth, we’re getting a two-vehicle DeLorean collector set, which pairs a 1:64-scale Alpha5 with a matching-scale DMC-12. The set is available for pre-order now for $40, and is anticipated to ship “on or before” November 1.

Beast Kingdom Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers Dynamic 8ction Heroes Chip and Dale Two-Pack

Thanks to their recent Disney+ outing, and an incredible earworm of a theme song that ‘80s and ‘90s kids probably still can’t get out of their heads, Disney’s Chip and Dale stay America’s favourite set of Chipmunks, and completely deserving of the 8ction Heroes remedy from Beast Kingdom. Each 3.82-inch tall figure options wonderful articulation in addition to actual cloth clothes recreating each of every character’s Rescue Rangers costumes: Chip’s fedora and bomber jacket, and Dale’s Hawaiian shirt. The two-pack is available for pre-order now for $80 and contains equipment like swappable faces and palms, in addition to a Zipper determine, however supply isn’t anticipated till December of 2023.

Numskull Official Star Trek USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Countdown Character Advent Calendar

If you like the concept of including to the joy of the vacations with an creation calendar, however don’t want a every day dose of chocolate, or a plastic trinket, day-after-day, Numskull has provide you with a greater concept. Every day in December, from the first to the twenty fourth, this Countdown Character calendar reveals a brand new piece of a buildable model of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. To make it so simple as attainable, the entire mannequin’s items simply snap collectively with out glue, leaving you with what seems to be an impressively detailed mannequin of Star Trek’s most good spaceship. The draw back? $100 is an enormous capsule to swallow in a month filled with presents purchasing.

Lite Brite Pop Wow! Wall Art

Lego has leveraged its smallest bricks into a brand new line of Lego Art items you may truly dangle on the wall after they’re constructed, however lengthy earlier than that new addition to Lego’s expansive lineup one other in style toy had us painstakingly recreating artwork peg-by-peg: Lite Brite. The toy’s new Pop Wow! Wall Art collection works similar to the unique Lite Brite did, however now takes benefit of low-power LEDs so the creations will be powered by batteries and be hung flat on partitions. The $100 set comes with a 16×6-inch canvas and 6,000 mini pegs that can be utilized to make authentic inventive creations, or recreate one in all three pre-made designs.

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