In the 1:64 die-cast car collecting communities, some people make custom parts like, say, a roof tent for its miniature Toyota Land Cruiser. But with the Hot Wheels Elite 64 Mod Shop 1982 Custom Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45 Trophy, your miniature camping-in-the-wild diorama is ready out of the box. Not […]
Mattel has never been shy about taking Barbie into unexpected territory, but this one hits different. Forget Malibu Barbie or Astronaut Barbie. This is Barbie with baggage—ancestral, supernatural baggage. Folks, meet the Barbie Día De Muertos La Llorona Doll, a spectral beauty inspired by one of Mexico’s most chilling folktales. […]
Mattel has done Lunar New Year Barbie for years, so it’s about time they turned their eyes to one of the biggest festivals in India: Diwali. To be fair, down south, it’s Deepavali, which shares similar vibes but comes with slightly different lore. With much of Southeast Asia (hello, Malaysia […]
We just realized we’ve talked about the Transformers Studio Series The Transformers: The Movie Coronation Starscream twice. Why? I have no idea. Anyway, that Starscream is not a great toy, btw. I had it. It was essentially a retool of the Earthrise Starscream, which isn’t great to begin with, IMHO. […]
Hasbro has perfected a way to openly take your money twice for the same product. That’s right, my friends, I’m talking about the ol’ retool/repaint. But here’s the thing: Hasbro doesn’t just do repaint/retool out of thin air. The toymaker almost always bases them on cartoons or comics, and in […]
Well, it looks like Optimus Prime and Starscream won’t be the only bots chugging coal and blowing steam anymore. Joining them in the brass-and-cogs club are none other than Megatron and his pint-sized headache of an Autobot, Bumblebee. Pulled from IDW’s Transformers: Hearts of Steel comic miniseries, these two are […]
In this installment of milking the mold, Hasbro has revealed the Transformers Studio Series Energon Universe Optimus Prime transforming action figure. You are not seeing things. It looks like the much-lauded Transformers Studio Series Commander Class The Transformers: The Movie 86-31 Optimus Prime has been given a retool to become […]
We all know Monster High, Mattel’s goth-glam juggernaut—a fashion doll franchise that fused horror tropes with high school drama, is heavy on, well, goth and horror. This makes it the perfect canvas for creepy characters like M3GAN and the Young-Hee Doll. But let me tell you this: the latest Monster […]
Monopoly has a kind of complicated beginning. Not in a bad way, btw. It was invented and then patented in the United States, but the widely known version, a.k.a. the iconic version, was the London Edition. By “widely known,” I do mean outside of America, cos America has its own […]
You know how some bicycles are just, well, bicycles? You buy it, you ride it, and that’s the end of the story. Yamaha Motor clearly didn’t get that memo. Enter the Y-00B: Base, a concept eBike that’s basically a blank canvas on two wheels. Instead of locking you into one […]
All this while, I have the impression that a hydrogen-powered vehicle has to be at least car-size to be feasible, or at least chunky like the Kawasaki Ninja HYSE. But nope. It does not. Enter the Yamaha Motor H2 Buddy Porter Concept, a two-wheeled oddball that makes “hydrogen on a […]