If you've ever sat on your bedroom floor, smashing your Toy Story figures together and feeling frustrated because they simply wouldn't stack properly to form a giant fighting robot, well boy do we ...

The newest Yolopark action figure kits for Transformers One depict both the initial and final forms of both Optimus Prime and ...

This is an intergalactic emergency: A real-life Buzz Lightyear Robot has been released, and you don’t even need to be named Andy to get it. Disney and Pixar have joined forces with Robosen Robotics to ...

Following the success of 'SSSS.Dynazenon' and its recent inclusion in 'Super Robot Wars Y', Ember Toys has revealed a new ...

If you hang around TV fans long enough, you’ll eventually hear the snobbier ones disdainfully describe classic shows that were made “just to sell toys.” The implication is clear: if a show was made ...

Toy company Hasbro licensed transforming robot toys from the Japanese company Takara, which had already existed in that country since 1980. But in America, Hasbro wanted a whole mythology to go with ...

Earlier this year, inventor Jamie Mantzel unveiled a prototype of a remote-controlled robot he had nicknamed "the greatest toy in the universe" in a YouTube video that garnered over 2 million hits in ...

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If you grew up watching movies like “Star Wars,” “Short Circuit” or “WALL-E,” you’ve probably daydreamed of what it’d be like to have a robot sidekick, a machine that genuinely reacts to you, ...

It’s not just enough to make a good cartoon any more. Too often, animated shows are dependent on selling action figures in order to stay on the air, ratings (and quality) be damned. Here are seven ...