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.
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.
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.
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.
Professional crook Fujiko Mine has her own new Lupin anime. She looks sexy and fantastic. This new life-sized Fujiko figure, though, does not.
RC cars? Been there, done that. Planes? Old hat! But cockroaches? *Leans forward*