Bandai is bringing this Japanese pocket toy, 5 Second Stadium—the first of many, like Mugen Pop Pop—over here. You try to click precisely at the 5-second mark. I’m premature, as always. [Giz @ Toy Fair]
The OK to Wake! alarm clock teaches your hellions when it’s okay to leave the confines of their bed by glowing green when you’re ready to deal with them. I’m sure it works perfectly.
R2 is squealing at me. Honest-to-God stormtroopers are standing guard nearby. Perfect conditions to prove that I’ve outgrown my Padawan pants, and can now move a plastic ball with my mind like a real Jedi.
While most time capsules require a level of patience that’s not entirely suited for a child’s attention span, the Backyard Safari Time Capsule can be both buried and continually stocked with new items.
Unlike the wet noodle Nerf blades of my youth, these new N-Force scepters are stiff enough to put on the hurt without flexing, but soft enough to not scare mum (too much). I want.
Hexbug’s touch-and-sound-sensitive mini-robots have always moseyed, not scurried. But their latest, the Ant, locomotes with wheel legs—not quite a wheel, not quite a leg—zippily enough to give real bugs a run for their money.
The latest Vex prototype robot kit is just called Walker—a generically oblique name that somehow makes it scarier—and is inspired by Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s terrifyingly beautiful beach creatures.
You may have caught, in the Transformers 2 trailer, that the Devastator is now a composite Voltron of constructions machines-every boy’s dream! Now you can play with him in the privacy of your own home.
newVideoPlayer("/gijoe_duke.flv", 506, 423,""); This is Accelerator Suit Duke, and he’s been deemed the “most advanced action figure of all time.” Watch him run, watch him shoot, watch him ruin your childhood’s conception of everything that is good.
Nerf just can’t stop. Last year it was Rambo Jr.’s Vulcan Gatling gun, and now they’ve raised the bar again-the CS-35 shoots 35 darts from a rotating drum magazine with pump-action auto fire. Holy shit.
