This Week’s Toy News Is Full of Witches, Rebels, and Heroes

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common spherical up of the best merchandise on the web currently. This week, Gundam’s newest protagonist will get her personal determine, Hasbro lifts the lid on an entire host of Star Wars toys, and Groot will get bushy. Leafy? Check it out!

S.H. Figuarts Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Suletta Mercury

Gundam’s newest protagonist, and its first feminine main character, is now additionally the primary hero within the mecha franchise to get a Figuarts toy since G Gundam’s Domon and Master Asia did 15 years in the past. Suletta comes with alternate fingers and faces for varied poses, in addition to a couple of equipment, together with her telephone, and two in a different way scaled units of miniatures of herself in each her faculty and pilot uniforms, to be posed with the Robot Spirits and Chogokin variations of her Gundam, the Aerial. Suletta will value round $75, and is due for U.S. launch in June 2023. [BBTS]

Hasbro Star Wars The Black Series Reveals

Hasbro has launched a flurry of stories for its 6″ Star Wars line this week, giving us reveals of figures from Andor, the world of Star Wars gaming and the Expanded Universe, and a very fishy classic figure. For its Comics and Gaming Greats sub-lines, the company revealed that Marvel’s Doctor Aphra, Expanded Universe legend Mara Jade (circa Dark Forces Rising), and Knights of the Old Republic’s Bastila Shan and Darth Malak will all receive new figures next summer. Joining them will be Andor’s rebellious Vel Sartha, clad in the mission gear she wore on the planet Aldhani and including her AK-47-looking blaster rifle.

But a bit sooner—this December, in fact—Hasbro has dropped a Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary special release exclusive to its Pulse webstore. The figure, Admiral Ackbar, is painted in the classic styles of his original Kenner toy, with flat skintones and bright yellow eyes, and is packaged on retro-inspired card backing. If that wasn’t enough, as well as a blaster pistol he also comes with a baton inspired by that classic figure, which… well, Ackbar never had in the movies. Nostalgia!

Hot Toys I Am Groot Groot

Hot Toys is back at it with another Groot, this time making up for its diminutive size with a ton of accessories based on the I Am Groot animated shorts. The figure comes with several pairs of alternate hands, and swappable face sculpts for a variety of emotions, as well as drawing of the Guardians of the Galaxy, two small cucumber slices to attach to his relaxing face, and then two sets of “leafy” accessories: alternate “hair,” arms, and attachable pieces to make him look like a leaf-covered take on either a poodle or a macho-man-style Hercules. Groot is set to release near the end of 2023, and will cost around $215. [Hot Toys]

Beast Kingdom DAH Black Adam

The hierarchy of energy within the DC motion determine universe can now change with Black Adam’s very personal 1:9 scale determine. Complete with a wired hooded cape and three units of alternate fingers, the DAH Black Adam additionally options in-built LEDs to mild up the lightning bolt emblem on his chest. No worth has been revealed but, however he’ll launch on the finish of 2023. [Toyark]

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