Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the fan-favorite character from the Disney+ series, Star Wars: The Mandalorian, has become the biggest online sensation. The Child, better known as Baby Yoda, is the adorable Yoda-like space baby that has captured everyone’s hearts. During Cyber Monday, Amazon and Walmart dropped pre-order Baby Yoda toys and merchandise but these new action figures available at Amazon are one of a kind.
Spoiler alert: The Star Wars galaxy saga introduced the adorable 50-year old infant at the end of the first episode. And since its debut, the breakout star, green baby species, Disney has not been able to get merchandise out fast enough. If you were looking for cool Mandalorian figurines to add to your collection, check them out below. While you won’t be able to get them in time for Christmas, first releases begin in May, these toys can definitely make great gifts for the Star Wars fan in your life.
This collectible action figure of The Child Toy is only 1.1 inches and if you’ve been following the show, it comes in it’s official Baby Yoda outfit and character-inspired accessories. Add this figure from The Black Series to your official Star Wars collection. This toy will be released May 4, 2020, but if you want to guarantee to get it, pre-order it now at Amazon for $10.
Pose the irresistible Baby Yoda anywhere you go with this 6.5-inch action figure. It will be released on May 11, 2020, but you can pre-order it now for $20 at Amazon.
If you were looking for even more realistic Baby Yoda, this plush toys “talks” — technically it coos and squeals — and comes with accessories from the series. This will definitely be out of stock before it’s even released on May 18, 2020, so pre-order now at Amazon.
Two epic scenes from Star Wars: The Mandalorian is when we see Baby Yoda revealed from his blanket and when he sips from a bowl. Now you can own these figures when you pre-order from Amazon.
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China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?