Ever go to a rave with a bunch of robots? You can, in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
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Take a moment and watch this micro-documentary on a 64-year-old Japanese woman who is sewing elaborate dolls, leaving them in the place of departed neighbors from her dying village in the valley of Shikoku. For the past decade, Ayano Tsukimi has been repopulating the remote village of Nagoro with arts-and-crafts people, sewing buttons on their eyes and coiffing their hair with yarn, because her home is becoming a ghost town. Why? Well, because, as we learn in the video, her village has dwindled down to 36 residents and doesn’t even have a general store or local school, though at one…
At last!
These hyper-exotic plastic firearms by Mattel aren’t just kids’ toys. They’re also toys for grown-up kids, thank you very much. As anyone who plays a fair amount of videogames can vouch, it’s only natural to develop a fetish for wickedly exaggerated weapons of destruction that are far too impractical to exist in real-life. That is, unless they are produced as toys that fire darts, like these magnificent creatures in the BOOMCo line, coming this summer, just in time for that family reunion where you can pass it off as quality family time. Looking at these magnificent creatures, you can clearly…
Heavy stuff for a toy.
James Wilkes’ five-minute short film proves that you don’t have to play with toys to play with toys.
ToyTalk wants to open up a dialogue about videogames. With videogames, as well.
The sad fact of the matter is, like the AR-15, the RQ-1 Predator and “drones” in general have achieved a notorious cachet. That’s why you are reading this article about a 1:97 scale, die-cast toy version of the winged death-machine — currently out of stock on Amazon. That’s why I’m writing it. And that’s why two hundred facetious reviews can be found on the product page. It’s our own glass bead game. – – – It’s unclear whether the tiny unmanned aerial vehicle is intended as a toy for children or as a model for cretinous adults who would place…