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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the coolest toy news. This week’s toys include Lego continuing to drop more Disney 100 treats, Hot Toys flexing for The Dark Knight movies, and a colossal Jurassic World dino. Check it out!A Transformer Is Headed to the MoonImage: LegoLego Disney 100 Years of Disney Animation IconsReminiscent of Lego’s Brick Sketches line, but on a smaller scale, this 1,022-piece Disney Animation Icons art set includes hundreds of tiny tile pieces and 12 8x8-stud plates that can be…

Whether or not this summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts brings the franchise back to its glory days, the robots in disguise will be back in theaters next year. That’s when a long-in-development animated film will head to theaters,and now we finally know a bit more about its plot.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonThe film, which is officially untitled at the moment, is being directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) and will take place on Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers. That much has been known since 2015.…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the greatest toy news on the internet. This week: Lego’s already got plans for The Mandalorian season 3, while Hasbro’s still stuck with The Book of Boba Fett. Plus, make your own skies a bit more Pandoran with Avatar RC creatures. Check it out!Image: LegoLego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Spider TankIt really does seem like vehicle designers in the Star Wars universe throw anything at the wall they can think of and hope that it sticks. How could anyone think that…

Image: Hasbro, Super7, LegoWelcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly look back at the best toy news and releases you may have missed. This week Lego’s got a pair of ships to welcome back the return of Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Super 7 brings a hero in a half shell ready to rock, and Hasbro finally adds fan-favorites Shipwreck and Polly to its G.I. Joe Classified Series lineup. Check it out!Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter MicrofighterWe’ve already raised serious concerns over the practicality of The…

Image: Hot Toys, Lego, Super7Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular look at some of the coolest new toys around the internet. This week Star Wars fever returns thanks to The Mandalorian and Return of the Jedi’s 40th anniversary, Hasbro’s Transformers go giant-sized, and Super7's latest Simpsons toys offer a spook. Check it out!Lego Star Wars Executor Super Star DestroyerThis! As much as we may ooh! and aah! over monstrously large Lego sets like the $850, 7,541-piece, UCS Millennium Falcon, the reality is that most of us…

Image: Hot Toys, Japan Trend Shop, and HasbroWelcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest in toy news. This week: Jen Walters’ paramour gets the Hot Toys treatment in more ways than one, Star Wars’ Micro Galaxy ships come back for another round, and Hasbro rolls out the Dinobots in two new Transformers releases. Check it out!Image: Hot ToysHot Toys Marvel She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Daredevil Sixth-Scale FigureCharlie Cox’s Daredevil returned to the MCU with She-Hulk, and with him, a new updated and…

Image: The Pokémon Company, Lego, Super7Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest toy news tickling our wallets. This week: Super7 goes back to Springfield for another wave of Simpsons Ultimates figures, Mirage joins Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts toyline, and here’s your chance to celebrate 30 years of Jurassic Park with, of course, Barbasol. Check it out!Image: Super7Super7 The Simpsons Ultimates! Wave 4Apparently trying to prove it’s a Simpsons super-fan by still refusing to give us…

Image: HasbroThe phrase, “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” comes to mind with Hasbro’s latest addition to its Transformers toy line, as longtime Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, is now tradinghis alternate truck mode for a dart-firing Nerf blaster.Megatron, the leader of the opposing Decepticons in the Transformers world, is now best known for transforming into tanks, spaceships, and various other vehicles of war. But the original Megatron toy, which debuted in the US in 1984 as…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle. This week we return to the Spider-Verse with Miles and Gwen figures from S.H.Figuarts, start the Transformers Rise of the Beasts merchandising onslaught with Arcee, and begin our Valentine’s Day planning with a Pokémon Love Ball Poké Ball replica from the Wand Company. Check it out!Lego Ideas A-Frame CabinLego’s latest fan build turned real set is Andrea Lattanzio’s Lego Ideas A-Frame Cabin, which is as much an architectural treat as it is a masterclass in repurposing Lego pieces for unintended…

Image: Francesco Manna/Image ComicsCome 2023, Image Comics’ Massive-Verse that first began with Radiant Black from Kyle Higgins Marcelo Costa will continue to live up to its namesake. Inferno Girl Red was one of the first books announced to be spinning out of Radiant Black, and the character herself has shown up in the Supermassive crossover from earlier in the year. And her solo series will finally put the full spotlight on the interdimensional superhero.Drawn by Erica D’Urso, written by Mat Groom, and colors from Igor…