Toys
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The Black Panther Rises in This Week’s Toy News
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular roundup of the most fun geeky merch around. This week, the Transformers get into the holiday spirit, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s new hero gets a new Hot Toys figure, and all hail the gooiest Star Wars toys around. Check it out!
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The Best Robotic STEM Toys to Fill The LEGO Mindstorms Hole in Your Heart
For almost a quarter of a century, LEGO’s Mindstorms line, which allowed both kids and adults to build fully-functional bots from LEGO and Technic pieces, was one of the most capable STEM toys available, both for those looking to dive into robotics and those who just wanted to build cool machines.
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Open Wide for This Week’s Toy News
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular round up of the coolest merchandise on the internet lately. This week, Mondo’s Masters of the Universe toys get a major upgrade, Transformers pulls into the train station, and it’s already time for festive nightmares. Check it out!
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The Most Useful (and Useless) Consumer Robots of the Last Four Decades
The history of consumer electronics is dotted with failures, like the vastly superior Betamax tape format, or 3D TVs, but one device that’s been especially difficult to convince consumers to buy has been robots. The technology at our disposal still hasn’t caught up to what everyone expects a bot to be able to do for…