Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts

Monday, 14 November 2011

Finding Nemo Pixar Figure Collection 001

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy family drama film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) who, along with a regal tang called Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), searches for his abducted son Nemo (Alexander Gould). Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and to let Nemo take care of himself.

The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the 2nd highest-grossing film of 2003, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, earning a total of $868 million worldwide.


And now Pixar's Finding Nemo star Nemo himself is getting the Revoltech treatment as a fully pose-able figure. Yup, you heard it right – Fully pose-able fish! Includes different faces, and dizzy Dory as an accessory! Even his "special fin" is faithfully reproduced! Comes with two types of different facial expressions and the face can be removed so that you can easily change the look.




This looks like a really nice set and I'm looking forward to it :)



Accessories: Alternate Nemo "face" (scroll down to see), Dory, and coral reef base





And here's a comparison of size. I like that there's a reference and I hope that the hand shown doesn't belong to a small adult because I like the size comparisons.

Revoltech Pixar Figure Collection 002 – WALL-E

This is just too cute :) WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Both robots exhibit an appearance of free will and emotions similar to humans, which develop further as the film progresses.

WALL-E has been met with overwhelmingly positive reviews among critics, scoring an approval rating of 96% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $521.3 million worldwide, won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as well as being nominated for five other Academy Awards at the 81st Academy Awards. WALL-E ranks first in TIME's "Best Movies of the Decade"!


And now Kaiyodo Revoltech is bringing to us this exceptional WALL.E robot toy figure as part of their Pixar Figure Collection. WALL.E Revoltechs up very nicely, too! Fully pose-able, with a gaggle of accessories, he's ready to recreate scenes from the Pixar movie or follow your own script. I think this is one of the BEST WALL.E robot toy figures I've come across :)




Check out all the cool accessories - fire extinguisher, plant in shoe and scrap metal cube ;p I really like this Kaiyodo Revoltech WALL.E robot toy figure


The head is a combination of hinge joints and movable up and down, also can be rotated 360°. You can produce a wide variety of facial expressions by changing the angle of the eye.


Here's the basic figure without the limbs and tracks. These are attached to complete the robot toy figure.


And here's a picture to show the size of this Kaiyodo Revoltech WALL.E robot toy figure. Not too shabby for the price they're asking for.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Gears of War 3 Lancer built entirely out of Lego

Every so often the odd video comes along that surprises even the darkest depths of our geeky souls. Something so terrifically time consuming, yet utterly brilliant in its fanboyish approach that we can't help but stare at it.
This special Gears of War 3 Lancer made entirely out of Lego is most definitely one of them. First up it is bar none the most complex piece of bricks put together that we have ever seen. We can't even begin to contemplate the amount of man hours involved in putting something like this together, let alone making it so both the chainsaw and ammo cartridge work.
The gun operates by having rubber bands wrapped around the black brick ammo cartridge, which is then snapped into place, Gears of War style. You then draw back the firing mechanism on top of the rifle and away you go. From the looks of it the gun itself has quite a bit of power, thankfully the builders even went to the effort to put a safety catch on it.
The battery operated chainsaw mounted below the Lancer is easily our favourite bit, particularly when the gun's builders use it to knock over the tiny paper Locust cut outs.
This is one for both Lego and Gears fans to enjoy, we doubt it will ever make its way onto shop shelves, but perhaps a guide on building the thing will turn up. Don't imagine it comes cheap though, looks like more bricks have been used in putting the entire Lancer together than Pocket-lint's entire childhoods combined.