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Unhinged Hacker Turns a Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard Into an OutRun Arcade Game
If you’re an automotive enthusiast of a certain age, you probably owned a Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard toy at one point. The horrible grating sound of its motor is very likely a direct flight back to nostalgiaville, and who can blame you? The thing was rad. But what if someone made it radder? Enter Circuitbeard,…
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The Smithsonian’s Work Helped Tomy Create One Of The Most Accurate Replicas Of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise
Tomy has created a remarkably detailed replica of the USS Enterprise based on the original screen-used model in the Smithsonian.
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Somehow Japan Making Robotic Grandkids For Lonely Grandparents Isn’t The Saddest News Of The Week
You know the world is churning out some depressing headlines when news that Takara Tomy has created a robotic talking grandchild to provide comfort and companionship to Japan’s elderly isn’t anywhere near the saddest news of the week — but it definitely comes close.
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Someone Recreated The ’80s Transformers TV Intro With Super-Sized Toys And It’s Magnificent
It apparently took eight full months for YouTube’s Lazy Eyebrow Reviewer and Masterpiece ReAnimated to painstakingly pose and animate these impeccably-detailed Masterpiece Transformers toys from Takara Tomy and Hasbro to recreate the ’80s cartoon’s opening animation. The results, which have me itching to buy every last one of these figures, were clearly worth all the…