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Image: Lego, Hot Toys, and NumskullWelcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest in nerdy toys and merchandise. This week, ignore that it’s summer and get excited about Christmas with a Star Trek twist! In the meantime, Lego shines a light, and Hot Toys enters the Star Wars Inquisitorius. Check it out!Lego Ideas Motorized LighthouseProving yet again that there are some master Lego builders who don’t work at the company, Sandro Quattrini’s Motorized Lighthouse submission to the Lego Ideas platform back in…

Image via Disney Plus There hasn’t been any film quite as out-of-left-field this year as Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, the Disney Plus action comedy featuring the titular ’90s darlings reimagined as down-and-out actors who get wrapped up in a race to rescue their dear friend and former show mate from a diabolical fate. The film’s deft handling of meta humor, one of the trickiest beasts in entertainment, was nothing short of enchanting, and the mixtures of different animation styles and subsequent crossovers made…

You’ve seen Dale Dickey before. She is the living embodiment of a character actor, bringing vibrancy and life to more than 130 supporting roles and bit parts in a wide range of TV series and movies, from “Iron Man 3” and “Hell or High Water” to “Two Broke Girls” and “Breaking Bad.” (Of course, to pay the bills, she often takes roles in lesser projects, so for every “Winter’s Bone,” there’s a  “Trailer Park of Terror.”) Or maybe you’ve seen her on stage — after a dozen years in New York, she has been in Los Angeles for…

Screenshot: DisneyIn 2020, Disney added a warning in front of several of its films, including Dumbo, Peter Pan, and more, cautioning viewers about the racist portrayals found within. It read, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people and cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and they are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.” It’s the sort of thing you might…

via Disney One of the biggest pop culture talking points this weekend has rather unexpectedly been Disney Plus original movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, thanks largely to the sheer volume of surprise references the live-action/animation hybrid made to a number of different properties, including plenty that don’t fall under the Mouse House’s purview. If it isn’t the hilarious appearance of Paramount’s abandoned initial design for Sonic the Hedgehog, then it’s the overt acknowledgement of the SnyderVerse’s…

“Ugly Sonic” is back … in Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, the live-action/CGI animated hybrid film based on the beloved 1989 animated series of the same name. Three years ago, the first trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog film presented a design for Sonic that everyone on the internet decried as ugly as sin. Paramount Pictures and Sega pushed the release date back three months to give him a face-lift and make him look as cool as his original video game counterpart. The makeover gave us two box office hits,with a likely…

I’m still having nightmares about those tiny teeth Who could forget ugly Sonic? After his horrifying design was announced to the world with a poster for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, he became one of the biggest memes of 2019. Fans, myself included, were disgusted by how human-like he was, especially when it came to his hands, eyes, and teeth. Following the tidal wave of backlash online, the studio finally decided to completely revamp Sonic’s design for the live-action movie, and it actually worked out for…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press If you must reboot an over 30-year-old Disney Channel cartoon like ” Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” you could do much worse than looking to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” for inspiration. But it is a high bar and though “Chip ‘n Dale” might not reach the heights of that Robert Zemeckis film, it is still a pleasant surprise stuffed to the brim with pop culture references that children of the “Chip ‘n Dale” era may enjoy. Now, wait, you may be thinking: Aren’t children of the “Chip ‘n Dale” era…

It’s no real surprise that someone was prepped to poke fun at Hollywood’s increasingly aggressive remaking, rebooting and remixing of dust-caked IP, but it’s perhaps more of a surprise to find the joke coming from inside the house. Not just any house either but the house of mouse, arguably the most egregious offender of all.But the unending sift of studios trawling though their back catalogues (this year promises new spins on Gremlins, Three Man and a Baby, Father of the Bride, Frasier, Scooby Doo, Night at the Museum,…

Dir: Akiva Schaffer. Starring: John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, JK Simmons, KiKi Layne. PG, 98 minutes.It’s amazing what you can get away with under the pretence of irony. Take Disney Plus’s Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers – a return to the popular Nineties animated TV series, which rebranded some of Mickey Mouse’s oldest friends as rambunctious detectives. Unlike the largely sincere 2017 Ducktales reboot that featured David Tennant as the voice of Scrooge McDuck, the reins…