Toys Archive

  • Giftable: Star Wars Republic Squadron motion flight game

    Giftable: Star Wars Republic Squadron motion flight game

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    If you have a kid that likes Star Wars – especially the Clone Wars cartoons – then here’s one of the only gifts you’ll need to buy. Of course, that’s totally false because if you have kids you need to buy thousands of gifts around the holidays, right? Well with this one you’ll have a [...]

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  • Board Game Night: Halo Risk, Donkey Kong Jenga, or Nintendo Monopoly?

    Board Game Night: Halo Risk, Donkey Kong Jenga, or Nintendo Monopoly?

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    By now you've already heard about Nintendo Monopoly, but let's add two more video game-themed board games to the list: Halo Risk ($40) and Donkey Kong Jenga ($25).

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Toys

    Gift Guide 2009: Toys

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Intro The problem with creating a category for toys on CrunchGear is that almost everything we review is a toy - it's fun, cool, and great to play with for at least a day or two until our attention is inevitably drawn to something else. That said, here are some gift ideas for the toy lover [...]

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  • Man builds Vespa rocking horse for grandchild, jealousy for everyone else

    Man builds Vespa rocking horse for grandchild, jealousy for everyone else

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Here is a photo of the luckiest kid in the world. Look at that cute little face. He seems to be saying “I have a Vespa rocking horse. Do you have a Vespa rocking horse? Where do you keep your Vespa rocking horse? I’m but a small child so I can only assume that all other children have a Vespa rocking horse just like mine.”

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  • Ghostbusters action figure sets

    Ghostbusters action figure sets

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    I can’t seem to shake the strong resemblance that these “Ghostbusters Minimates” share with LEGO characters. But you don’t need dimpled toy blocks in order to play with these “hyper-articulated” action figures.

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  • Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    What you are about to see will shock you. Our allies overseas are being given broken Speak&Spells for full interrogation and their techniques are as far from the Geneva Convention laws as you can imagine. After stripping out most of the lower part of the device, these interrogators are forcing the Speak&Spells to perform unnatural acts, some that turn the stomach.
    Touching the word "Speak" turns the unit on. "Spell" triggers a random letter. "&" triggers a random glitch sound. The touch pads to the right trigger a really crazy hold/distortion effect. This is one of the most interesting effects I've found in a Speak&Spell in years. The strip below changes the pitch. This doesn't actually utilize a transistor. I simply wired the pad to the pitch base on the circuit.

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  • EA Sports finally gets into the sports biz

    EA Sports finally gets into the sports biz

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    After years of training nerds to win on the electronic playing fields, EA Sports finally takes a step out of the virtual realm and produces a gaming platform that requires actual skill. This isn’t going to be pretty. [@ian_cummings via Kotaku]

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  • Wind Up Breakdancers spin with gusto, create general merriment

    Wind Up Breakdancers spin with gusto, create general merriment

    Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
    breakdancersIf your next dinner party turns out to be even half as awkward as the last one, you'll need to have these "Wind Up Breakdancers" on hand if you want people to stay for coffee and passive-aggressive banter between you and your significant other.

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  • Uncle Milton unleashes the Force

    Uncle Milton unleashes the Force

    Posted on July 24, 2009 | No Comments
    As much I want the Force Trainer from Uncle Milton, the evil nerd in me would much rather have Darth Vader’s robotic arm instead! The Force Trainer is pretty straight forward based on the video, but the Vader Robotic Arm is so much more intriguing. A total of 45 “snap-together” parts comprise the fully functional robotic [...]

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