Quick Byte: Origami Star Wars TIE Fighter
The Empire’s fleet is accepting paper reinforcements. One sheet, 24 steps, and a little patience will get you a miniature TIE Fighter, but you’ll have to supply the terrifying flyby noises yourself.
Bole Brick’s 4,508-Piece Supra Is a Near-Perfect Recreation of a JDM Legend [Review]
After 22 and a half hours of building, Bole Brick’s 4,508-piece kit became a remarkably convincing 1:8 recreation of Brian O’Conner’s Toyota Supra—complete with ahem, its movie livery, a 2JZ-GTE engine mini build, working gearbox, and custom lighting.
Garmin Makes Pedaling Nowhere Easier With Its Zwift-Ready Trainer
Zwift Cog removes the need to match a cassette to your drivetrain, while the wireless Click controller handles virtual gear changes. The result is a smart trainer compatible with most 8- to 13-speed bikes.
Tamashii Nations Gives Business Cards a Robot-Anime Entrance
Business card exchanges in Japan deserve care and respect. Tamashii Nations adds a little theater with a case that unfolds, turns your card around, and presents it at the press of a button.
Godzilla Meets Evangelion in a Monster Figure You Can Actually Pose
Crossing Godzilla with Evangelion’s Unit-01 produced a monster too good to leave in one pose. Tamashii Nations turns the X-Plus statue design into an articulated action figure, letting you rearrange its rampage without surrendering an entire shelf.
Missed the Godzilla Minus One SteelBook? This Edition Adds a Glow-in-the-Dark Cover
Missing the original Godzilla Minus One SteelBook might have worked in your favor. The new US$35 edition adds an English dub and a glow-in-the-dark slipcover, giving collectors another chance without having to entertain a reseller’s asking price.
Quick Byte: Godzilla Minus Zero Behind the Camera
Before Godzilla can tear through Japan again, someone has to build the streets. A new two-minute featurette visits the sets of Godzilla Minus Zero, offering a glimpse of the work behind the sequel to the Oscar-winning monster movie.
Cities: Skylines Video Game Gets LEGO-lized in LEGO Skylines
Building a LEGO city is one thing. Keeping its residents happy is another. LEGO Skylines puts you in charge of a brick-built metropolis, where snapping apartment blocks into place is easy; explaining the power plant next to someone’s beach house might be harder.
Transformers’ Rhinoceros Robot Gets an Evil Makeover—and a US$225 Price Tag
Turning a dependable hero into a villain made for a memorable Beast Wars episode. Now, Takara Tomy is giving that corrupted version of Rhinox, the Transformers character who turns into a rhinoceros, a collectible figure of his own. Bad news for the good guys—and completists with a budget.
LEGO Super Mario Finally Gets Proper Minifigures—and Eight New Sets
After six years of chunky electronic figures, Mario no longer needs firmware. LEGO’s refreshed Super Mario range introduces traditional minifigures across eight sets filled with karts, castles, familiar characters, and the Mushroom Kingdom’s usual disregard for workplace safety.
LEGO’s New Star Wars Flagship Is a 6,130-Piece Display Monster
Darth Vader’s flagship returns as the longest LEGO Star Wars model ever, stretching 1.36 meters and packing nearly twice the pieces of its predecessor. It even reduces the Millennium Falcon to a single 1×1 tile just to demonstrate how enormous the Executor is.