toys

Image: HasbroHasbro’s latest Star Wars reveals may have been ostensibly for its villain-themed “Imperial March” this month, but really, it was all about The Acolyte. Just a day after we got our first look at the next Star Wars series in action, Hasbro came prepared with a bevy of new figures inspired by the show, and then some.The Acolyte figures sadly won’t be out until fall this year, but it’s still nice to see Hasbro has a lot of plans for the show across both its 6" Black Series and 3.75" Vintage Collection toy lines.…

Image: Zapf CreationShe had a LOT of needs. You had to manually put her to sleep, regularly feed her from this magic milk bottle that came with her, and make sure you were keeping her very still when she was sleeping or she’d wake up and start crying and then you’d have to pat her back long enough to make her stop crying. These are just the basic, everyday ones. There were more needs I can’t recall.Playing with her was a full-time job. I absolutely loved it though because I’d feel like such a mom. I would quite literally…

Scientists have converted a children's "drinking bird" toy into a tool that generates usable amounts of electricity. The generator could one day be utilized to power a wide variety of small electronic devices, both indoors and outside.First of all, just how does an unmodified drinking bird (aka dipping bird) work?Well, its vacuum-sealed body consists of two glass bulbs linked by a glass tube, one bulb forming the head and the other one forming the tail. The head bulb incorporates a protruding beak and is covered in an…

Mario Day is right around the corner on March 10, and while we're still waiting for most of the official deals to go live, there are a bunch of great discounts to peruse ahead of the event. Whether you're in the market for a new Switch game, a Lego Mario expansion set, or a snuggly plush, there's a bunch of Mario gear on sale ahead of the plumber's big day. One cool deal for longtime fans is for the Super Mario Encyclopedia, which is filled with 256 pages of Mario knowledge and is now just $21 (down from…

In Blumhouse’s Imaginary, coming out this week, a tattered old teddy bear hiding a spooky secret befriends a little girl. Things soon escalate from innocent to terrifying because let’s be real: a possessed toy is a scary as hell concept. This childhood nightmare is fueled by movies like Chucky from Child’s Play (a…Read more... In Blumhouse’s Imaginary, coming out this week, a tattered old teddy bear hiding a spooky secret befriends a little girl. Things soon escalate from innocent to terrifying because let’s be real: a…

Image: Hake’s AuctionsExpected to fetch $10,000-$20,000, this Mattel playset is in exceptionally good condition (according to the auction house, a less-pristine version sold for just over $13,000 last year); bid here by March 20 if you are powerless to resist its charms. According to the lot description, “upon its release in 1986, Eternia was sold at an extremely high price for a toy at the time, which led to few being sold. This large and impressive playset is often referred to as the ‘holy grail’ of Masters Of The…

Toys For Bob, the developer behind Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, has announced that it is going independent. This comes a few months after it was acquired by Microsoft as part of the Activision Blizzard acquisition and in the wake of massive layoffs at Xbox.Announced in a blog post, Toys For Bob is becoming an independent studio, spinning out from underneath Microsoft. While there are no details about what sort of deal was made to gain independence, the blog post does state that Toys For Bob is…

On the company’s website, Toys for Bob, the developer behind Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot 4, has announced that it’s diverging from Activision Blizzard to become independent. The post doesn’t really give much more in the way of details. It states that the company will return to being a “small and nimble studio.” They also state that, while they’re separating, they are looking into a “possible partnership” with Microsoft. Explaining, “Our friends at Activision and Microsoft have been extremely supportive of our new…

Activision Blizzard Activision studio Toys for Bob — best known for its work on franchises like Crash Bandicoot, Skylanders, and Spyro — is separating from Microsoft and going independent. It isn’t completely leaving Xbox and Activision behind, though, as the studio is looking to form a partnership with those companies. The developer, which was reportedly impacted heavily by the January 2024 Xbox layoffs, announced the news in a blog post written by studio heads Paul Yan and Avery Lodato. “We believe that now is the…

Activision studio Toys for Bob has announced that it's leaving the corporate rat race and is This comes just weeks after Activision Blizzard's parent company Microsoft at Toys for Bob that impacted 86 employees. That’s more than half of the entire staff.The developer said the choice to go indie will allow it to return to “being a small and nimble studio”, harkening back to its early days of the 1980s and 1990s when it made hit titles like Star Control. To that end, the company says it's already developing a new game,…