Awesome Toys

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.

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.

A life-sized replica of Ezio Auditore’s armored vambrace as seen on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Although it’s only made of plastic, be careful with the spring-loaded hidden blade.

If you watched the Meet the Pyro video, you’ll recognize the Balloonicorn, a beautiful creature that sprung forth fully formed from the beautiful mind of Team Fortress 2’s resident psychotic.

A proposal for three official LEGO sets based on Portal 2 – GLaDOS’ Chamber, a Modular Testing Chamber and a Puzzle Board Game. If it gets at least 10,000 votes, LEGO will consider making it.

A limited-edition 16″ tall statue of the Aperture Sentry turret. It’s cast in poly-stone, hand-finished and hand-painted. Plays sound bites from the game, has a light-up eye, and it doesn’t hate you.

Wanna know how we got this smile? It’s because of Hot Toys’ upcoming DX Joker 2.0 collectible figure. A highly realistic replica of the late Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the infamous villain.

Evil Robot Designs has new eye-catching toy-lamp amalgams featuring action figures from famous franchises such as Alien, Transformers, Toy Story, Star Wars, Batman, He-Man and more.

The spooky LEGO haunted house set opens up to reveal tons of creepy details. Includes 2 glowing ghosts, a zombie chef and butler and a vampire and his bride. Out this Sept, in time for Halloween.

As his name suggests, Sacramento designer Laserist enjoys making cool things with lasers. His nifty 3D cut-out puzzles in the shapes of guns are available in Uzi, Beretta and Revolver designs.

Papa Foxtrot makes wooden miniatures based on real ships: the TI Asia oil supertanker, the Arctic Princess liquified natural gas tanker and the Emma Maersk, the longest container ship in the world.

LEGO celebrates the upcoming London 2012 Olympics by releasing minifigures of 9 athletes from Great Britain. They will be exclusive to the UK and will be available starting 07/01 for £1.99 ea.