Forgive me a little friendly pimping, but TR's sister site OC Weekly has pics of the recent Star Wars event held in Legoland last weekend, and HOLY SHIT IS THAT A THREE-FOOT-TALL TURBO TANK MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF LEGOS? ...

​This is neat. Hasbro is starting a G.I. Joe subscription service through the Collector's Club, where they'll offer subscribers two figures a month for six months. There's no news on when it'll start (besides this year) or how much it'll ...

​GoBots are the Rodney Dangerfields of '80s toys: they get no respect... and they're completely dead and never coming back. They've never been able to escape the reputation of being low-rent Transformers knockoffs, despite hitting U.S. toy shelves first and ...

Um, guys? I think Japan might have their own ideas about how to get revenge on America for the Akira remake. Case in point:​These terrifying Mickey Mouse figures from Medicom are called Cubics, but I'll be calling them "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA." Tomopop ...

​Before Happy Meal toys were universally labeled as nothing more than plastic traps used to trick kids into the habit of eating the kitchen concoctions of one Ronald McDonald, they were as common a piece of Americana as the food ...

​ToyNewsI has these pics of Bandai's 4-inch WilyKit and WilyKat figures, and you may notice that they happen to be riding skateboards. Honestly, I have no idea if their characters in the ThunderCats cartoon will ride skateboards around, or if ...

With little more then 3 months until the Martin Campbell directed Green Lantern film hits theaters, there’s still a looming question in the air on what Parallax -yellow fear based entity-  will look like. Other then a production shot, no ...

Welcome bastards to a new installment of “Stuff You Want, Things You Need, & Everything You Can’t Have” by yours truly, Eric aka geektrooper. I’m back to inform you about some of the awesome goods out on the market for ...

​Generation 1 Transformers are near and dear to many of our hearts, because they were the Transformers we grew up with in the '80s. We fully believed that these robots could come to Earth, scan for what technology was out ...

​Holy shit -- K'nex is making an official Mario Kart faux-Lego line? Nice! First up are the Mario brothers and Yoshi in cars and bikes, along with a few of the items from the games such as turtle shells and ...

Most of us own some, if not a whole lot, of Neca’s action figures and collectibles. I own many of them. I have an army of action figures scattered throughout my room. Ya know.. to ward off evil spirits. Anyway, ...

​Forget Batman -- if you want a man with wonderful toys, you have to call on James Bond. He may be a British spy with a license to kill, but it's his laser watches, poison pens, tricked out cars, and ...

​You know the deal. Lego makes awesome Lego mini-figures; no one ever sees them on toy store shelves. Here's series 4 from left to right, by row:• Gnome, Geisha (actually called Kimono Girl), Musketeer, Punk Rocker• Surfer Girl, Viking, The ...

Let me start out by saying something nice about this game -- it's being developed by the guys who did the not-perfect-but-reasonably-fun-for-Transformers-fans War for Cybertron. Also, the environments looks great, and much more varied than they did in Cybertron, so ...

​I don't know why Sideshow has taken so long to make Cobra Commander in their G.I. Joe Premium Format Figure line, but it looks like he was worth the wait. This dude is awesome. Now, he's $300 and limited to ...

​Back in the early '00s, Playmates Toys released The Simpsons figures that had special chips and doohickeys in them that allowed the figures to utter famous quotes from the show when they were on various playsets. The toys, the gimmick ...

Sorry, this isn't Fan Fiction Monday -- it's a spectacular toy animation video from Taiwan. I say it's hot, because it involves Mega Man fucking Starscream's shit up. My apologies if I got anyone's hopes up for erotic robotics. Thanks ...

​The Baroness is coming to this year's G.I. Joe Con on March 31st - April 3rd. I don't mean one of those models Hasbro decks out in skintight leather and has strut around cons every so often (although those are ...

Honestly, this is more proactive than G.I. Joe ever was in the old cartoon. Huh... I wonder what the Joe team called this particular operation? "Roasted Nuts"? Maybe "Bills Gone Wild"? I welcome your suggestions in the comments. Read the original: ...

​Generally, role-play toys are an irresistible part of many toylines, both for nerds and for kids. When done the right way, these weapons and accessories enhance one's ability to feel like the protagonist (or villain) of the movie/cartoon/whatever, and ...

ANSWER:​Yes. Yes it will.This is one of the Wreckers I posted in vehicle mode the other day. As an alien robot who's alternate form is a NASCAR car, he of course has a mullet. I look forward to him speaking ...

First, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner talks up the GI Joe Sequel and now Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and all in the same week?!  That’s just too much.  This isn’t the 70’s where marketing a product like George Lucas’ Star Wars ...

​I don't know how I missed this news from NY Toy Fair, but The Fwoosh says that Hasbro is making a Rocket Raccoon figure, in-scale to the Marvel Universe line. They'll also be making a Groot figure too, although other ...

​Well, here they are. If you're only familiar with the cartoons and movies, the Wreckers were an elite team of Autobots that got killed by Megatron/Galvatron all the fucking time. Hardcore TF fans are excited about their including in Transformers ...

​See this thing? It's a pair of 3-D glasses. Seriously. It's an Optimus Prime-shaped set of 3-D glasses that Hasbro is releasing this summer for $10 that kids can buy so they can look like Optimus Prime while they watch ...

Ugh. First of all, just hearing John Turturro's voice while the Bayformers are on the screen makes me angry and kind of nauseous. Second of all, why are all the cars loaded with secret guns and cannons and shit? Looks ...

Because this short video from French-Canadian director / animator Patrick Boivin, featuring Hot Toys' 12-inch Scarlet Johansson figure from Iron Man 2, has taken care of it. Seriously, there's no way any Black Widow movie could contain half the awesomeness ...

​Somewhere lost in the madness of the 2011 New York Toy Fair was this announcement by Shocker Toys (from the press release):Anime Spotlight:

Yesterday I wrote about my personal account at the NY Toyfair. In my account I mentioned how I could not get into the Mattel showroom. To view their products was by appointment only. I flirted, bribed them with candies and ...

A dude at the awesome DVD company Shout Factory just confirmed that he's working on a release of Transformers: Beast Wars. If you're a fan, you know this is good for several reasons: 1) that Shout Factory is to awesome ...

[Editors Note: If you wish to skip my personal account of my day at the NY Toy Fair and get straight to the preview of toys and collectibles then just  jump straight to the bottom of the page for the ...

• Bandai didn't show off any new ThunderCats product at NYTF, but ToyNewsI did a great video of how the features of the ThunderTank and Hall of Omens set will work. Pretty groovy.• Bandai is also making an updated, modern ...

So I was planning on doing a bunch of trifectas today, but honestly, even by my lax just-cover-the-cool-stuff rule, there's more than three announcements each for Hasbro and Mattel and the other guys that I think you all are going ...

​Someone's got the Walking Dead action figure license. Based on my article title, care to guess who? From ToyNewsI: McFarlane Toys will be doing a new line of action figures based on "The Walking Dead." ... The first series of ...

With the Green Lantern flick expecting to be one of this summers biggest blockbusters it means two things. 1. Thousands of dedicated fans of the character hooting and hollering at how badly Warner Bros. and Ryan Reynolds did it wrong ...