In Real Life

These Little Halo Toys Are Disturbingly Desirable

First shown off at this year’s Toy Fair, there’ll soon be a line of action figures based not just on Halo, but on the Halo gear your little Xbox 360 avatars can wear.


May 27, 2012
In Real Life

Giant Mecha Make The Best Models

At the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show, there was a plethora of plastic on display. The standouts? Why, the giant mecha models were — as usual — just wonderful.


May 26, 2012
In Real Life

Assembling The Lego Avengers

With the phenomenal success of the Avengers still vibrating in the world’s collective consciousness, the folks at Lego sent a set of Avengers-themed Lego Marvel Super Heroes bricks my way. So I spent several hours putting together a stop-motion video of the assembly of Earth’s mightiest minifigs.


In Real Life

It’s Almost Time To Preorder This $400 Mass Effect 3 M-3 Predator Pistol Replica

Triforce, the creators of many fine video game replica weapons, are getting ready to arm 600 lucky customers with scale replicas of the M-3 Predator Pistol from Mass Effect 3.


May 24, 2012
Uncategorized

Another Enormous, Expensive Metal Gear Figure

Though it was unveiled last month at an event in Hong Kong, it was tough to get an idea of the scale of threeA’s Metal Gear Ray figure until now.


May 22, 2012
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Real Steel Action Figures Are 1000x Cooler Than The Movie

Despite the fact it featured fighting robots, Real Steel was a massive disappointment because it had too much human drama, not enough fighting robots.


May 21, 2012
In Real Life

These Avengers Action Figures Look So Real You’ll Think They’re Tiny Actors

Bar none, Hong Kong outfit Hot Toys make the most realistic action figures on the planet. So it’s nice to know that, with The Avengers destroying box office records all over the planet, Hot Toys has the licence to produce large, expensive and very fancy figures based on the movie.


May 18, 2012
In Real Life

Why Grown Men Make Things Out Of LEGO

We feature a lot of LEGO here on Kotaku, for good reason: it’s awesome. But nearly every spaceship or Star Wars diorama we show you aren’t made by kids, or Danish engineers. They’re usually made by grown men.


May 17, 2012
In Real Life

A History Of Gender In LEGO Minifigs

There was a bit of an uproar earlier in the year when LEGO introduced a line of modified products targeted exclusively at girls. To provide a little context for that uproar, social media marketer and LEGO fanatic David Pickett has written a great feature breaking down the history and statistics of just how many LEGO characters/figures have been dudes and how many have been ladies.


May 15, 2012
In Real Life

Batman Figures Pull A Knife On Arkham City’s Finest

There are two kinds of Batman: Arkham City action figures. There are the standard ones, and there are the expensive ones. These are a new line of the standard ones, but before you let that put you off, some of them look pretty great.