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I was never really that into Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. I mean, I loved the idea of the giant vehicles that turned into play sets, but even then I tended to gravitate towards Mighty Max or Tranformers (I did have the Turtles Party Va...   read

Nintendo has been sneaking user polls into Badge Arcade since the start, and this is no exception. Recently the game's bunny mascot innocently talked about how "adorable" of an amiibo he'd make, prompting players to answer whether or not th...   read

Pokemon merch has been around before some of you were born, and it will be around long after we're all dead. So with that thought out of the way, we're getting an another amazingly cute Eevee toy! This one doubles as a plush and a keyb...   read

During the past few years or so (wow, amiibo have almost been out that long!), folks have been trolling the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act) site for Nintendo to find any sort of information on possible restocks. A certificat...   read

Did anyone else mainly use wall calendars for checking off video game release dates growing up?I remember the anticipation, waiting for a big Square RPG, a Capcom action game, or a Nintendo release, whiling away the days until it came out. ...   read

In the wake of Disney ceasing video game development, it's winding down existing services. The biggest of those is Disney Infinity support. Come March of next year, Disney will have completely washed its hands of Infinity. In an email ...   read

San Diego Comic-Con is this week, and that means lots of toys blowing up my Twitter feed and, if I'm not careful, also my wallet. "Dang, that looks real ni--oh, it's $350. Welp." As far as things I can afford, NECA is reviving one of my chi...   read

RIP Disney Infinity. I played each game with a sense of wonder, hoping that the Toy Box would be a fully realized tool to use in the future, and with the latest iteration they came close to that goal, all while providing fun adventures...   read

After being up at Best Buy for weeks, all of you folks who were holding out for Amazon for the new Splatoon amiibo wave can now finally pull the trigger. Today, the new line launches, which includes the Squid Sisters Callie & Marie...   read

Moving over to the Marvel realm, the Disney Infinity series had some awesome figures that could have eventually expanded into all of the upcoming MCU films. "Had," being the operative word here, because Disney Infinity as a series was ...   read

Back in 2014, ThinkGeek unleashed a Mega Buster replica out into the world for $80, that has since been cut to $50. It was a little to silly and unwieldy for my tastes, but I imagine someone's son or daughter is having the time of their lif...   read

We are long past the era of "unicorn" or "impossible to find" amiibo. Taking a look at recent releases, Roy, a GameStop exclusive, was available for over a month before he temporarily went out of stock, and was re-listed again. Timmy and To...   read

[Update: Nintendo showed off some new amiibo footage in their Zelda stream. According to Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen, Link is "exploring alone," and based on his wording, Wolf Link seems to be the only companion availab...   read

[Update: GameStop has listings now for Ice Slasher and Fire Storm.] With Funko's world domination nearly complete, with just about every "pop culture" item in its grasp, it was crazy that Mega Man wasn't a part of that empire yet. Uh, ...   read

Piggybacking on the long-overdue Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age PS4 remaster announcement, Play Arts is making some new Final Fantasy XII toys you can get long before the game's 2017 release. Gabranth (October, ~$138USD) and Balthier (Sep...   read

We've covered these Undertale figures here before on account of how gosh-darn cute they are, but now they're available for pre-order along with some other themed merch at Fangamer and that's reason enough for me to open up the ol' post edit...   read

Activision is in a unique position at this point. It basically started the video game toys-to-life market, and now, a major competitor has pulled out entirely. If it was worried before, it's less worried now. It's just as well as the compan...   read

The amiibo craze has died down significantly. There used to be hundreds of fans in any given town waking up hours before a retail location opened up just to grab a rare figure, but now, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who cares. One of...   read

Well uh, this might be the point where collectors draw the line, if they haven't already. Capcom has announced the existence of three amiibo figures for Monster Hunter Stories, which will arrive with the 3DS game on October 8. At the moment...   read

As part of a promotional stunt, Blizzard has dropped enormous novelty-sized Overwatch action figures in major cities -- including my current stomping grounds, Los Angeles. I took the train into Hollywood to see this big ole Tracer figure, w...   read

I managed to get my hands on Kirby: Planet Robobot, and the first thing I wanted to try out is the amiibo functionality. As luck would have it I actually had to wait a few levels before it popped up, and when it actually did, it emerge...   read

Best Buy has released the pre-order floodgates for the new Splatoon amiibo, which are set to arrive on July 8 in the west. As a reminder, here's what's new -- the Squid Sisters (Callie & Marie) have never been released before, and ...   read

Here we are in this glorious era of amiibo, where one can simply walk into a store and pick out the one they want for weeks, sometimes months on end after they're released -- no waiting in line before the store opens only to find out they h...   read

Although they haven't been announced in the west, Nintendo's Japanese site has been updated to provide a look at its official upcoming amiibo diorama line -- which, at present, consists of a Kirby and Super Smash Bros. model. They're b...   read

Look at that beautiful little Blanka! Oh my gosh! I came across these Street Fighter Mini Figures from Multiverse and illustrator Miguel Wilson a while back, but must've been too tied up with who-knows-what to cover them at the time. The co...   read