This is going make me sound so old in a walking-to-school-uphill-both-ways kind of way, but kids today are so lucky. They have access to some of the coolest technology and toys thought unimaginable just a scant 20 years ago.
Take this upcoming offering from Mattel. They’ve improved their traditional Hot Wheels diecast cars by placing a small video camera and LCD screen inside. The camera records at 30 or 60 frames per second to give you point-of-view video of the action you’ve just taken your Hot Wheels racer on. Taking the toy to the next level, you can also put the camera-car in its protective shell and attach it a helmet or bicycle for more POV recording.
The 12 minutes of total recording time may not sound like much but these cars don’t typically long trips. Plus you can download the video to your computer via the car’s mini USB. The car even comes with software to edit your creation.
This video-camera-in-a-toy concept isn’t new for Mattel. They already have Barbie Video Girl that places a camera inside the torso of the popular doll. It may be the boy in me talking, but the idea of a Barbie camera always seemed pointless and kinda dumb. A matchbox-sized car camera, on the other hand, is the stuff I longed for as a kid.
Hot Wheels Video Racers are set to his stores this fall with a suggested retail price of $59.99.
How do you make something awesome even awesomer? You create it out of Lego bricks.
That’s exactly what Yiu Keung did with Rovio’s video game phenomenon. All your favorite birds of mass destruction are represented. There’s even the evil pigs and the slingshot.
Can you imagine tossing these around to create a smash-em-up, real-world version of the game? No, I can’t either.
I don’t know who decides what characters need to get turned into expensive collectibles over at Sideshow, but whoever thought of Captain Hook from Disney’s Peter Pan deserves a cookie. This ‘premium format figure’ features real cloth and the freaking crocodile and is probably way out of my price range, but damn. I want this guy.
HULK CUDDLE! We here at Top Hat Sasquatch aren’t afraid to embrace our inner cuteness, and we appreciate it when our geek toys and collectibles aren’t either. That seems to be the case with these Marvel Comics Plushies from Funko, and I want them all.
Plushie Hulk and Thor are my favorites, at least until they get around to making Plushie Deadpool and Plushie Punisher. What about you? Name the Marvel character you think would make the best/weirdest Plushie in the comments.
