This Week’s Toys Are Powerful Allies Indeed

Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s roundup of the most recent toy information. This week, Lego begins teasing its plans for 2023 with a bevy of Star Wars units and a easy jazz celebration, Chainsaw Man merch mania continues with everybody’s favourite blood fiend, and Hot Toys heads again to Attack of the Clones. Check it out!

Lego Modular Building Collection Jazz Club

It’s official, your minifigures have a extra lively social life than you do with the most recent addition to Lego’s modular constructing sequence. The 2,899-piece, $230 Jazz Club is totally hopping with exercise with a trio of performers within the membership itself, a tailor holding the band wanting spiffy, a magician to heat up the group, a pizza store subsequent door for late night time noshing, and even a rooftop backyard with a inexperiencedhome making certain the chef works with solely the freshest elements. The set comes with eight minifigures in whole, and shall be officially available starting January 4.

Hot Toys Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala

Hot Toys returns to the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy with a duo: Anakin and Padmé as they seem in Attack of the Clones. They’re available as particular person figures. Anakin comes with two gentle up lightsabers, full with swappable swinging blade FX pieces, alternate fingers, and a removready outer gown, in addition to an alternate arm to duplicate his robotic hand after his duel with Count Dooku. Padmé in the meantime has each her holdout blaster pistol in addition to a Battle Droid blaster just like the one she picks up within the arena battle, alternate fingers, and a detachable cloak and hat, the latter of which is impressed by one unused within the film, however that will finally seem within the Clone Wars cartoon. Both Anakin and Padmé are set for launch in early 2024. [Toyark]

Plastic Meatball Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas forty fifth Anniversary Figure Set

Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas stands out as the solely vacation particular to owe its reputation to what wasn’t included within the remaining product: a sequence of hilarious outtakes the Jim Henson Company shared over a decade in the past which rapidly went viral. Whether it was an intentional stroke of selling genius or not, Emett Otter’s adventures at the moment are a Christmas staple for a lot of households, and in addition now a set of five-inch figures of Emmett and his Ma with matching equipment from the particular that initially aired 45 years in the past. You can pre-order the pair now for $60, however don’t count on them to reach till Christmas 2023 rolls round.

Lego Star Wars Boba Fett’s Starship Microfighter

If you like constructing Lego Star Wars spaceships however don’t love shelling out lots of of {dollars} for elaborately detailed units, the microfighter line will definitely scratch that itch with out wiping out a complete paycheck. Most of the ships on this line seem like cartoonish go-karts from a racing sport, however Lego’s designers have carried out a fantastic job at unbiggening Boba Fett’s Starship with this $10, 85-piece construct that features a pair of flick-fired missiles and a minifigure of the bounty hunter himself.

Bandai S.H. Figuarts Chainsaw Man Power

To go alongside its latest solicitation for Denji in his Chainsaw Devil kind, Bandai has now revealed its second Chainsaw Man Figuarts within the type of the maniacal blood fiend herself, Power. Power comes with alternate fingers and emotive faceplates, and two weapons: her common handheld blood hammer, and an enormous sized one. She even has her pet cat Nyako/Meowy too! She’s anticipated to launch in summer 2023.

Lego Star Wars TIE Bomber

Star Wars is an enormous a part of why Lego remains to be going sturdy at present, and whereas the corporate has recreated and rereleased numerous units from that line over time, it’s been 19 years because it’s revisited the TIE Bomber from The Empire Strikes Back. This 625-piece, $65 TIE Bomber sticks to extra correct black and grey bricks, with a redesigned cockpit component that opens to disclose room for a pilot inside. It features a pair of stud shooters, torpedoes that may be dropped, a Gonk droid, and three minifigures: Vader, a pilot, and Vice Admiral Sloane who hasn’t appeared in any of the Star Wars motion pictures, however numerous books, comics, and video video games.

Pee-wee Herman Chia Pet

As with quite a lot of novelty gadgets relationship again to the ‘80s, the Chia Pet has managed to stick around for decades by leveraging pop culture and the nostalgia of those who grew up with “the pottery that grows.” The latest version is a far cry from the original ram and bull you’d cowl in soaked chia seeds and watch for vegetation to develop, with a bust of Pee-wee Herman, probably the most recognizable personalities of the ‘80s. Nothing has changed with how the Chia Pet works; with diligent care Pee-wee should grow a full head of hair in just a couple weeks, but you might have to explain to your teenager who the weird guy with the bowtie is.

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