This Week’s Toy News Is Monstrously Big and a Little Marvelous

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common roundup of the newest toy and merchandise across the web. This week, Lego goes queer and festive, McFarlane brings some alien oddities to its Warhammer line, and your subsequent cellphone improve may simply be a fairly candy Pokémon Pokédex. Check it out!

Lego Queer Eye – The Fab 5 Loft

Lego’s newest impossibly good residence was a duplicate you possibly can truly afford is the Atlanta loft utilized by the Fab 5 within the Queer Eye TV present. The 974-piece set, out there October 1 for $100, contains minifigure variations of the Fab 5 themselves, in addition to the late Bruley the canine, and two for one of many present’s most memorable makeovers, displaying Kathi Dooley’s earlier than and after transformation. The loft itself features a kitchen, clothes rack, a swivel salon chair, and an inside design that Bobby Berk helped Lego design.

McFarlane Toys Warhammer 40,000

McFarlane’s newest wave of Warhammer figures lastly breaks the mildew and provides Games Workshop followers what they’ve wished because the get-go: solely one Space Marine in your entire wave. After just a few balancing acts the place the chosen sons of the Imperium of Man dominated the proceedings, McFarlane is doing what it does finest with toys and branching out into freakier designs. There’s nonetheless some reservation, after all, within the type of one singular Space Marine within the new batch of 5: an Ultramarine Reaver, a skull-mask toting scout trooper who wears lighter armor than a typical troop, all the higher to run up and shoot you within the face with.

But the Reaver might be joined by 4 “Xeno” choices: a Tyranid Genestealer, with loads of arms to claw at you, and three Space Orks. Two of the Orks are variations on the Ork Meganob commander unit from 40K, every coming with face masks and armor choices to connect in addition to totally different weapons: one comes with a set of full-armed buzzsaw arms for shut fight, whereas the opposite comes with a claw and a longer-ranged “Shoota” rifle. The final possibility is a way more closely armed Ork Big Mek, a hulking, plus-sized determine that towers over his fellow greenskins together with his armor and heavy weaponry. All 5 figures—in addition to three matching greyscale “artist proof” variants of the Marine, the Tyranid, and Big Mek—are due for launch this November. [Warhammer Community]

Mezco Toyz Ultimate Godzilla

How are you able to presumably say no to a determine that features an ominous warning like, “Due to the substantial size of the figure, it is strongly recommended that you do not display on surfaces above 3’ high”? Mezco Toyz’ new Ultimate Godzilla stands a powerful 18-inches tall and is three ft lengthy from enamel to tail. Pressing buttons hidden on the kaiju’s again triggers light-up options and sound results, and whereas the determine is proscribed to only 10 factors of articulation, Godzilla’s versatile tail options an inside skeleton armature to create the proper pose. But is that sufficient to justify the figure’s $450 price tag when it ships someday late subsequent yr?

Lego Santa’s Sleigh

After years of neglect, Santa himself can lastly go to your Lego vacation village with a sled filled with toys in tow with this 343-piece, $37 set that might be available for purchase beginning on October 1. The sled itself seems festively adorned, and the set features a stack of wrapped items along with a naughty and good record filled with names for Santa to seek the advice of, however we’ve got to ask, why solely 4 reindeer? We’d fortunately shell out just a few extra bucks for eight of them, and much more if Lego was keen to throw in a Rudolph too.

S.H. Figuarts Marvel Eternals

Just in time for the pre-release advertising cycle to kick-off, Bandai has introduced the following three entrants in its Marvel Cinematic Universe S.H. Figuarts line, all targeted across the upcoming Eternals: Sersi, Ikaris, and Kingo. Each Eternal will include alternate arms, heads, and results items, which replicate them utilizing their powers, whether or not it’s Ikaris’ eye beams, Sersi’s eyes glowing as she transmutes an merchandise from wooden to clear materials (or the opposite method round), or Kingo aiming his finger blasts. Each determine, simply over six inches tall, will price the equal of round $60 after they launch in Japan subsequent month. [Toyark]

Hot Toys Back to the Future III Marty McFly and Doc Brown Sixth-Scale Figures

Sure, the third movie within the Back to the Future trilogy feels extra like a made for TV film, however the music nonetheless slaps (thanks partly to ZZ Top) and it’s good to have a minimum of one Western in our assortment with out Clint Eastwood in it—or a minimum of the true Clint Eastwood. The most important purpose we’d drop tons of of {dollars} on Hot Toys’ new BttF III Doc Brown and Marty McFly sixth-scale figures can be to recreate the duo’s iconic “clock tower” photo, however there are different incentives too, together with new head sculpts of Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, and mountains of equipment, together with Doc’s upgraded rifle and a miniature mannequin of the DeLorean time machine, in addition to Marty’s bulletproof range plate and pie dish turned frisbee.

Takara Tomy Pokémon Rotom Phone Plus

Taking notes from Apple’s annual launch schedule, Takara Tomy is introducing an up to date model of its interactive Rotom Phone that debuted simply final yr. The authentic model of the system let children hunt and catch 500 totally different Pokémon from varied areas, however the new version bumps that to 800 pocket monsters in total and provides motion-sensing so gamers can work together with the system by transferring their our bodies in 24 other ways. (Think spinning, leaping, and so on.) It seems like Amazon Japan has them out there, with pricing round $115 after foreign money conversion.

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