Has Halo reached its critical mass? The next stage for Halo merchandising is this collection of R/C vehicles that will surely pique the interest of any die hard fan. With prices ranging from $25-$35, you can get the Warthog, Mongoose, and Flying Hornet to complete your ultimate geek collection.
Funny enough the controller for the Warthog and Mongoose is shaped like a Sony controller. Just imagine that battle you can create around the Christmas tree this year! Take it out of the box or leave it packaged? On sale now.
Got twenty bucks? Easily entertained? Then what I’ve got for you will quite literally blow your mind wide open.
It’s called the HoverDrone, and it’s a little toy hovercraft that actually hovers.
It’s not that much bigger around than a silver dollar, and it floats by generating its own cushion with a small fan on its undercarriage. It also blinks a little blue LED. But where this is interesting is not that it’s a tiny flight-capable toy, but rather that it’s the SMALLEST remote controlled flying device ever made.
No, really–it’s just over sixty millimeters in diameter, and it flies. You can even control the height of the flight by remote, even if the remote is basically “up” and “down”. And the best part is, you can have one of these for just about twenty bucks. Even if you’re not that interested in flying a little blue toy with an LED light that blinks, well, it’s almost worth it just to have that piece of toy history in your hands.
As a kid I could only dream of a GI-Joe toy that ejected a remote controlled helicopter. Now that dream has become reality thanks to the Silverlit Heli Mission SWAT Truck. Contained in the rear of the RC truck is an RC helicopter. Using the same remote, you can stop the truck dead in its tracks, flip a switch that opens its rear compartment and raises a motorized platform for ‘copter for take off. Two toys in on? Remote controlled helicopter? Yeah, I’m sold. It’s currently sold out, but expect to drop about $100 (£59.95).
When I was a kid I owned an RC hovercraft. It worked for all of 2 days and then its rubber housing broke. Well, here’s my opportunity to revisit some childhood memories, or lack there of. This tiny RC hovercraft is just 4.1 inches in length, can be driven forward, left and right and is available in red, black, orange and blue. No word on whether or not it will glide over water, though.
September 2nd, 2008 3:42 PM | by Christen da Costa
If you can’t afford to build your own Batman Tumbler vehicle than I’ve got the perfect alternative: The 1:6 scale remote controlled version! It ain’t cheap, though, at $450 a pop. For the money you get real headlights, a slidable cockpit roof panel, and movable air brake flaps.
