Cool Toy Of the Week: Pirate Booty!

For this holiday edition of Cool Toy Of The Week we're going to revisit a couple of previous cool toys that we've written about, since they've been updated as official and unofficial tie-ins to the highly-anticipated movie"Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

First up, we have Mega Bloks, the folks who make PYRATES playsets. Their Pyrates toys must have caught the eye of somebody at Disney, because without much pre-release fanfare, Mega Bloks has released a slew of nifty playsets branded as "Pirates Of The Caribbean" toys. I wrote about Pyrates here, and the elements that made those toys cool are all present in the new movie tie-in toys. What's even cooler is that they've managed to capture a decent likeness of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow on a tiny little two-inch action figure. If you like the movie, you may just love the toys. As with Pyrates, there are a variety of price points in the toy line, ranging from seven bucks to more than fifty dollars for the more involved ship playsets. This line is in most toy stores right now.

WizKids has also updated their "Pirates of the Spanish Main" constructible card game with a new expansion series that adds elements of the supernatural to the swashbuckling game play. You can read what I wrote about this cool game here. More details on "Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse"can be found here. For this update to the game, in addition to the cool ships and forts you can build, WizKids has added SEA MONSTERS! Sea life doesn't get much cooler than this. "Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse" can be found at major retailers and hobby shops everywhere.