This Week’s Toy News Is Starting Spooky Season Early

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common roundup of all issues good, posable, and plastic. This week: Hasbro places a stake in a wild Transformers crossover, the newest Skywalker lightsaber will get a killer new duplicate, and Lego returns to the Bale Batman period. Check it out!

Hasbro Transformers Collaborative: Universal Monsters Dracula Mash-Up Draculus

We fully perceive that the continued pandemic has resulted in manufacturing and delivery challenges for corporations everywhere in the world, however that also doesn’t take the sting out of the truth that this improbable mashup of Transformers and Universal Monsters—a robotic bat named Draculus that transforms right into a robotic model of Dracula—doesn’t really ship till late November. It may have been the star and centerpiece for all of our Halloween celebrations and festivities, however if you happen to pre-order it now from HasbroPulse for $32, it should as a substitute arrive in time to be a clumsy addition to your Christmas decor. Although, an enormous robotic bat with outspread wings would make for one heck of a tree topper.

Lego Ideas Fender Stratocaster

For these about to rock, we salute you. For the remainder of us who by no means discovered to play an instrument, Lego’s new Fender Stratocaster could be as shut as we’ll get to constructing a musical profession. Based on a Lego Ideas fan-based creation, the 1,074-piece set has sufficient items to construct both a purple or black model of the enduring ‘70s-era guitar, complete with a whammy bar, tuning pegs, strings, and a brick-themed strap. But even more detailed is the included Fender ‘65 Princeton Reverb amplifier featuring removable panels that reveal its old-school motherboard, and the speaker cone and wiring inside. The set will be available for pre-order starting October 1 for $99.

Hasbro Nerf Mega XL Dart Blasters

Nerf is super-sizing its super-sized Mega darts with a new line of blasters appropriately called the Mega XL. Available around the beginning of October at Target stores, the line includes three options: the $42 Mega XL Boom Dozer with a six-dart rotating drum, the $32 Mega XL Double Crusher featuring a dual barrel pump action shotgun design that can fire two darts one after the other, and the $21 single-shot Mega XL Big Rig featuring onboard storage for two additional darts. Given the size of the projectiles, a 10-dart Mega XL refill will also be available and sell for about $9.

Lego DC Batman Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown

If $230 for the new 2,049-piece version of the updated Lego Batmobile Tumbler falls outside your responsible end of year budgeting, the toymaker has also revealed a smaller, minifigure-scale alternative, and what it lacks in extreme detailing it more than makes up for in affordability. At 422 pieces the DC Batman Batmobile Tumbler: Scarecrow Showdown set is a lot smaller than the collector focused alternative, but it will also be just $40 when available starting on October 1, and will still include minifigure versions of the Scarecrow and Batman, including a “nightmare” version of his head. Now that we’ve received minifig-scale variations of the Tumbler and the Classic TV Series Batmobile, it’s time for Lego to scale down its different Batmobile fashions too.

Marvel Legends Symbiote Spider-Man

One of Peter Parker’s all-time well-known variants fits will get a slick new motion determine in Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line, a part of its ongoing launch of “retro” packaged Spider-Man figures. Coming on the identical type of ‘90s-themed cardback as prior Spider-Man retro releases, the Symbiote Spidey features some alternate hands for thwipping, crawling, and punching, and an updated body sculpt. Due out in spring 2022, the figure will set you back $23, which is significantly less than bonding with an alien parasite that messes with your ethics. [Toyark]

Good Smile Company figma Human Anatomical Model

If you’ve ever fantasized concerning the seen human fashions in biology class going to battle with G.I. Joe, He-Man, and even the Jedi, the Good Smile Company is able to make those fantasies a reality—with a wholesome dose of creativeness nonetheless required. When formally out there in early 2022, the six-inch determine is an anatomically correct human with their pores and skin (and sure appendages) eliminated, revealing varied ranges of muscle, skeleton, and different tissue that we’re usually saved from having to see day-after-day. It’s full posable too, which is what we’d count on from a $70, six-inch determine, and it features a clear, articulated show stand permitting for a variety of pose potentialities.

Star Wars: The Black Series Rey Skywalker Force FX Lightsaber

The Skywalker legacy lives on in Hasbro’s newest Black Series FX Lightsaber launch, which takes Rey’s barely glimpsed new saber from the very finish of The Rise of Skywalker and turns it into an all-singing, all-dancing light-and-sound duplicate. Coming with each a stand to show the hilt (primarily based on Rey’s quarterstaff) as-is or with a tube to mild up its yellow blade, the hilt makes sounds primarily based on the movie when swung round, and the hilt itself additionally consists of articulated components to recreate the distinctive opening/closing high of the activation ring, identical to within the movie. The saber will launch in spring 2022, for $265.

Room Copenhagen Wooden Lego Home Accessories

Are you a Lego fan who desires to indicate their devotion to the constructing toy with out filling your own home with numerous brick-built fashions? Room Copenhagen, an organization principally identified for its Lego-inspired dwelling decor and equipment line, is introducing a new collection that trades brightly coloured plastic for a mix of strong oak wooden and wooden veneers. The assortment continues to be listed as “coming soon” on Room Copenhagen’s website, so there’s no pricing information but, however it seems to incorporate varied sizes of storage compartments with pull out drawers, hanging cabinets and stackable image frames, and even small units of single-stud wood wall hooks.

Lego Santa’s Visit

Lego’s efforts to fully substitute these fireplace-topping ceramic vacation villages continues with one of the best addition to the lineup but. The 1,445-piece Santa’s Visit set features a humble however festively embellished dwelling that features a purposeful hearth—or at the very least as purposeful as Santa wants it to be. Insert ol’ Saint Nick into the highest of the chimney and he’ll slide down immediately into the home, whereas a roaring fireplace mechanically strikes out of the way in which. Available October 1 for $100, the set additionally comes with 4 minifigures together with Santa and a Christmas tree with ornaments that truly mild up, because of a battery-powered LED mild brick inside.

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