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This Week’s Toy News Definitely Bent Your Wookiee
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular round up of the latest and greatest nerdy toy news. This week wraps up Obi-Wan Wednesdays with two more Hasbro figures, Super7 heads back to Springfield and beyond for even more Simpsons Ultimates, and: do you dare to bop Darth Vader? Check it out!
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The Next Ghostbusters Movie Is Coming Next Year
The Ghostbusters are coming back to theatres next holiday season. Sony just announced that its untitled sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife will hit theatres on December 20, 2023. There’s no word if director Jason Reitman, son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, will once again be behind the camera, but he and co-writer/producer Gil Kenan did…
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Can You Believe Blade Runner and The Thing Premiered on the Same Day?
On June 25, 1982, a strange thing happened. Two movies, now considered to be masterpieces of their genres, premiered on the very same day… and tanked. Both received middling to genuinely harsh reviews, both failed to make a significant dent in the box office, and both seemed destined to be minor footnotes in the careers…
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Star Wars Throws a Scarif Beach Party in a New Lego Special
Given everything Rey, Finn, Rose, and Poe went through in the sequel trilogy, I’d say they were overdue for a break. Thankfully, the quartet will get their chance to kick back and relax in Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation, the newest Lego special coming to Disney+, which will come with an all-new “Weird” Al Yankovic…