Welcome again to Toy Aisle, io9’s common spherical up of the most recent toy and merch information throughout this web. This week, Hasbro retains on the Transformers prepare, with a number of Primes and a Primal for good measure. Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures will get a cutesy plush line, and be able to embrace the brand new flesh: a brand new era of Furby is right here. Test it out!
Optimus Primal and Optimus Prime Chilling in Occasions Sq.
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Hasbro Transformers Legacy Evolution Core Class Optimus Prime & Bumblebee
Due to current motion pictures, comedian books, and video games, there’s now no scarcity of reworking Optimus Prime figures. What there’s a scarcity of is Optimus Prime figures that embrace the reworking trailer included with the unique G1 Optimus toy, so we’re fairly excited to see its return on this new Transformers Legacy Evolution Core Class two-pack that includes Prime and Bumblebee. These are smaller scale and fewer detailed figures that remodel from their robotic to car modes in 11 steps, however all of the performance of the unique G1 Prime trailer (which is giant sufficient for Bumblebee to drive inside) is recreated right here because it transforms right into a cellular battle station. The 2-pack is on the market for pre-order now by Hasbro Pulse for $40, with supply anticipated in early September.
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Lego Disney Peter Pan & Wendy’s Flight Over London
Lego microscale builds are at all times enjoyable to discover as they usually characteristic items utilized in unorthodox methods to recreate particulars at smaller scales. Wanting intently on the new 466-piece Peter Pan & Wendy’s Flight over London, that includes Wendy and Peter Pan minifigures withdrawing over town at evening, we spot jewels getting used as road lights, minifig wigs used as timber, and an immediately recognizable miniature recreation of the London Bridge. The set is on the market for pre-order now by Lego’s web site for $60, with delivery beginning on September 1.
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Hasbro Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Studio Collection Deluxe Autobot Mirage and Chief Optimus Primal
For those who left the theater after a displaying of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts impressed sufficient to need two of the movie’s foremost characters adorning your desk, Hasbro now has pre-orders up for its Studio Collection Chief Transformers Optimus Primal, and Studio Collection Deluxe Transformers Autobot Mirage figures. The latter is the smaller of the 2, remodeling from a Porsche 911 Carrera to a 4.5-inch tall robotic in 25 steps, whereas the bigger Optimus Primal transforms from gorilla to an 8.5-inch tall robotic in 34 steps. Each are anticipated to ship in early December, however whereas Mirage will be pre-ordered for $25, Optimus Primal is greater than twice as costly at $55.
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Hasbro Furby Interactive Toy
When the must-have toy of 1998 returned in 2012, we weren’t precisely enthralled with the brand new Furby, regardless of upgrades that included animated LED eyes designed to make it much more partaking. A couple of different iterations of the furry interactive toy have been launched since then, however for 2023, Furby is being reinvented as soon as once more, and whereas it seems slightly cuter with larger ears, fluffier fur, and full coloration eyes that really blink, the query of why Furby exists nonetheless stays. The newest model, which is at present out there by Amazon for $70 in two colours: purple and coral, guarantees to be an interactive greatest good friend with 5 voice-activated modes together with “Dance Get together, Copy Cat, Inform My Fortune, Let’s Chill, and Lightshow,” in addition to over 600 phrases, songs, and jokes, though it looks like the fashionable model of Furby remains to be cursed to solely communicate Furbish.
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Hasbro Transformers Generations Volvo VNR 300 Optimus Prime
When it rains on Cybertron, it pours. After lamenting a couple of lack of Optimus Prime figures that embrace the character’s trailer accent, this week we’ve received two new choices from Hasbro able to haul cargo. Along with a brand new Bumblebee/Prime two-pack (scroll up) we’re additionally getting one other Optimus determine from an alternate dimension (we’re assuming) the place Prime first stumbles upon a Volvo VNR 300 18-wheeler and chooses that as his alternate id, as a substitute of a snub-nosed Freightliner truck. The determine transforms from bot to truck mode in 37 steps, and the detachable trailer opens to disclose a cellular battle station. It’s out there for pre-order now from Hasbro Pulse for $55, with delivery anticipated in early September.
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Hasbro Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures Grasp Yoda Plush
The Mandalorian confirmed the world that Yoda’s species doesn’t at all times should appear to be a shrivelled up Muppet, and the glow-up continued with the current animated collection, Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures, which is focused at youthful Star Wars followers. Though not fairly as previous as he was in The Empire Strikes Again, Yoda remains to be a number of hundred years previous as he trains a brand new crop of Jedis in the course of the Excessive Republic period within the collection, however doesn’t look a day over 450. The truth is, when became a $30 plush toy out there this Summer season, Yoda virtually borders on cute with these massive inexperienced eyes, trendy Jedi robes, and ignited lightsaber in hand.
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Takara Tomy Honda Sound Sitter
It doesn’t take lengthy for exhausted new dad and mom to find that automotive rides might help put a stressed toddler to sleep. However is it due to the light rocking movement of the car, or that the hum of the engine reminds them of the sounds they heard whereas within the womb? Takara Tomy and Honda are hoping it’s the latter with the Sound Sitter that stuffs a luxurious toy automotive (modelled after a Honda S600 Coupe from the mid-’60s) with a speaker that performs engine revving sounds from the 2018, second-generation, Honda NSX, for 45 seconds. It was decided to sound very near the sounds an toddler hears within the womb, so for round $60 come October, dad and mom could have one other software to (hopefully!) assist little ones drift off to sleep.