Toys

Pass along top secret data with these cool hollow coins. They have been machined and finished to look exactly like U.S. nickels and quarters. The coins can only be opened using the included tool.

Robot designer Jaimie Mantzel first showed off an early build of his six-legged robot toy a few months back, and now here he is, unboxing his awesomely cool production version, dubbed the Attacknid.

Remember those Fisher Price record players that played chunky plastic discs? Well thanks to 3D printing tech and the DIY brains of Fred27, you can make your own custom records for the classic toy.

Watch YouTuber DRIFT 44 slide his remote-controlled car into tight parking spaces and execute other drifting maneuvers. It’s not as impressive as the real thing, but it looks like a lot of fun to do.

A funny good luck charm from Kid Robot and The Simpsons. Homer Buddha is a 7″ vinyl figurine with a movable head and a tummy that you won’t be able to resist touching. Drops 9/6/12 for $50.

Looking for a use for your new Hail-Fire Blaster? This cube-shaped alarm clock can be snoozed by firing Nerf projectiles at it from across the room. Miss, and you have to get out of bed.

Vesa Lehtimäki stumbled upon a box of his old spaceship scale models and took pictures of them head on “to capture their character.” The filter and shadows wonderfully combine grit and nostalgia.

Jason Freeny’s latest creation is a mass produced sculpture, puzzle and educational toy in one. The Gummi Bear Anatomy Toy has a transparent body with 41 removable internal parts.

The Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire Blaster’s long name is trumped by its ridiculous capacity. The semiautomatic has a rotating ammo rack that fits up to 8 clips, with a potential capacity of 144 darts.

LEGO enthusiast Peer Kreuger made motorized scale models of the Tumbler and the Bat from The Dark Knight Rises. You can vote to make them official LEGO toys here and here. More pics here.

Similar to Hurricane Balls, the toy is held in place by gravity and its angular momentum. It would supposedly spin forever if not for energy lost to friction and vibration. We think.

A huggable life-sized replica of Seth McFarlane’s character in the movie Ted. Available in two variants: a clean version that speaks 12 lines from the movie and an R-rated one with 5 lines.

Shadowman39 sure has a lot of K’NEX (and time on his hands), as he managed to build a full-scale, fully-functional Skee-Ball machine using only the plastic construction toys (and a few rubber bands.)

There are a million guides out there for making a water bottle launcher, but if money is no object, you can’t go wrong with Maruda’s RPG-7. It recoils and even has a warhead cone for bottles.

LEGO fanatic _Tiler took the Tumblers and Bat from The Dark Knight Rises and managed to convey their forms perfectly in these tiny little creations made from just a handful of bricks each.

Hot Toys turns their ultra-realistic DX series to the characters of The Dark Knight Rises. This 1/6th scale Batman figure has 32 points of articulation and interchangeable parts. More at Hot Toys.

A fully-functional desktop replica of a Roman ballista – capable of firing not deadly shield-piercing bolts, but toothpicks. Be careful though, or you’ll shoot your eye orange out, kid.

A more practical version of the pachinko coin bank, the dual bank encourages its owner to save for two competing expenses. Use a dry-erase marker to write and re-write on its porcelain body.

Take a 4:51 break to view SpongeBob Squarepants animator David Fain’s clever choreographed video of some multitalented plastic army men; the vast amount of editing is more than impressive.