This week starts the newest reoccurring section at Gadizmo, Geek Weekly, and to celebrate the triumphant start to nerdism and pure unadulterated fun, we’d like to kick off the event by taking a look at life-sized LEGO Avengers props!

A full scale Captain America shield blazoned with a blue encased white star and surrounded by the US of A’s red and white stripes can be yours! [Flickr]

Just take your time and pull out a boatload of red, white, and blue Legos like Ken Robichaud did (over at his LEGO themed Flickr account buriedbybrick), and get busy.

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The “Foam Fighters” video game combines two expertly crafted and air-worthy foam airplanes with a realistic and incredibly fun WWII-like flying simulator App.

The package might say ages 9+, but my six-year-old niece craves this game, and I greatly enjoy it (being a bit older than six myself).

AppGear has been combining free Apps – that are adept at their game’s purpose, such as flying and fighting in this case – with props that function as fun add-ons that stick via a suction cup to the tablet or smart phone the players are using.

And I cannot understate this: having a WWII fighter plane on a stand that can be angled to give you a perfect view of the screen and the soaring foam fighter just beyond the game’s horizon is a great illusion that adds to the action; but what I find most intriguing is that the foam fighters actually glide, and are built extremely well to fly better than the old foam plane kits that we all bought from the ice cream man from time to time.

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Traxxas, the makers of speedy ready-to-run RC cars, boats, and planes have a new gun in it’s arsenal, the XO-1 Supercar.

The new 1/7th scale speed demon uses a brushless electric motor and LiPo batteries to get from 0 to 100mph in under 5 seconds! Don’t get too excited yet, at 8.6lbs, this 27inch rocket ship is a $1100 explosion waiting to happen. In other words, this toy isn’t for the inexperienced. Video after the jump…

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If you took advantage of Apple’s Black Friday event to pick up the perfect gift or snag an iPad yourself, your only logical next move is to jump all over Cyber Monday and pick up the iCade, arcade cabinet at 40% off.

The iCade brings old school arcade controls and your favorite retro games right to the iPad with the power of bluetooth, all while making the décor of any room or office orders of magnitude awesomer.

Backed by Atari’s greatest hits, gamers will have access to over 100 classic games including hits like, Asteroids, Centipede, Pong, Tempest, and more. What’s even more exciting is that recent popularity of iCade has prompted 25 other iOS developers to support the desktop gaming system so, there will be more titles to follow.

The iCade is the ideal accessory for any iPad owner, and at today’s price of $59, it’s a great gift on the cheap.

What fortune could be more balanced, more objective, more believable, and more clutch than pure, unbiased chance?

An 8 Ball? No, you see very few precognitive methods are as fun as the Magic Geek Ball, and it makes decisions for you!

There is no geek on the planet that can spend an entire lifetime deprived of the fantastically foreshadowing insight of the age-old Magic 8 ball. It has been an affordable means of fortitude for the indecisive or the gambling types for decades.

But there is a new captain of the spaceship in the Magic Geek Ball!

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Is there any remote controlled toy capable of delivering more entertainment than a five foot long flying shark? My limited research says no!

From ages 2 to 82, Air Swimmers had my entire family engaged and smiling for hours. There is something magical, intriguing, and just plain old awesome about watching this giant fish propel itself across the room with a lifelike flick of the tail.

The smooth gliding and steering provided by the back and forth motion of the sharks rudder adds a level of realism to the experience that needs to be been seen in person but, for now, this video will have to do…

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What is sexier than a rechargeable portable speaker that produces vastly gorgeous bass and treble tones for twenty bones? How about one that comes in the form of a classic rubber ducky!

I am not quacking you, folks. The Disco Duck Speaker is here to float to the top of the audio-pond echelon.

Meander into the corporate headquarters, find the corner office, sit down to take a draught of a Colombian brewed java, and prepare to start working vociferously; but wait!

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The Bot is coming toward you; it stopped. You poke and prod the Bot with a dully-ended pencil; twist the tip in the heart of its gearbox gut.

The Pencil Sharpener Robot comes alive and walks!

Kikkerland Design has outdone themselves with the ultimate office gadget for the geek in need of sharp pencils at the school or workplace.

The fully functional (if by the Bot functioning you are only talking about walking and sharpening and looking bad-ass, folks) Pencil Sharpener Robot is 4.5 inches tall and invokes all of the lost art of the early twentieth century robot age in its square, technical, and mechanical looking design.

Robbie the Robot would be proud of this Bot!

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Unique airframe design? Check. Open Source hardware? Check. Open Source software? Check. The ability to hover like a Helicopter, but at the flick of a switch, fly like an airplane? Double check.

It seems that the Quadshot has it all and it sure would be hard to find something as cool as this before those Christmas lists are finished. However, don’t fret, The Quadshot team have just raised a whopping $84,000 on Kickstarter (of a $25,000) goal, so these puppies are going into production and soon you should be able to buy either a complete plane or a kit to put together yourself and maybe tinker with some of the software.

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Are you a sucker for any kind of flying gadget? Do you often find yourself unable to care less about anything the people around you are talking about? Then the flying fuck helicopter is for you.

With this remote controlled helicopter, you can finally fly your tech loving curmudgeon flag around the house, office, or a party for all to see.

Much like the silver bullet mini helicopter, the flying fuck plugs directly into the remote, charges in about ten minutes (for every eight minutes of fly time) and is also a two-channel control, which means it always moves forward, can only be controlled up/down/left/right, and is just plain easier to fly.

I don’t know how they can make anything that flies for under $20 but, they did, and now you scan grab your very own flying foam four-letter word today.