Yearly Archives: 2017

Teddy bears picnic from the terraces

teddy bear picnic

I’ve never really liked football, in fact I can’t stand it. It might simply be that I was very very bad at it when made to do it at School and the nightmares have never quite stopped. This, on the other hand has warmed me to the so called “beautiful …

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Minifigures – Most wanted

lego leia

  The chaps and chapesses at Firestar create custom LEGO stuff, over 25,000 unique bits and pieces that are plays on the Danish originals and if you slip over to Firestar Toys and use the code BRICKME15 we’ve snagged you all a discount, a 15% one, are we good or …

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Now Tyler the Tiger is under a ton – Roarsome!

Tyler from Hasbro

My boy Billy and I have been hanging out with Tyler – Full title -“Roarin’ Tyler The Playful Tiger” the priciest part of the Hasbro FurReal range yet, well at full RRP he was, now they’ve trimmed quite a bit off the price tag. Let us not beat about the …

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Bring your LEGO to life with the new AR app

lego ar

Brand spanking new and free from the department devoted to new technology the LEGO Creative Play Lab are launching this augmented reality app – LEGO AR-Studio. The app mixes up the physical and virtual so users can play with digital versions of LEGO sets in real settings. Inside the software …

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LEGO Chat bot to assist in sourcing your brick based gift

LEGO chatbot

The’ve named him Ralph, the new chat bot is working on Facebook Messenger and ready to assist sourcing your LEGO gifts. Ralph, their Facebook Messenger Chat Bot, is on hand, with multiple choice questions, to help you pick a present and he is pretty handy at giving out free shipping too. Via …

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Top toys for Christmas 2017 – In cinematic format

Toyology TV

We’ve seen, over the course of the past few months, top toy lists aplenty. Instead of having a moan about the contents of these lists or indeed congratulating certain elements within them the Toyology team decided to bunker down and debate creating our own TopToys for Christmas list. And so, …

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Robotic reptiles anyone?

robo alive lizard

The Robo alive brand has thus far brought us various water-activated realistic fish and turtles too, splendid bath time fun and we’ve taken a handful on holiday too and been amused by our antics beside the hotel pool. Two new creatures in the form of the Slithering Snake and Lurking …

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No avoiding the cricket – embrace it with a game

Cricket

Cricket in a bag The Ashes are upon us, no avoiding it in the news, time to embrace the willow, wicket and seam (sic) interested for a few weeks. Load yourself up with some cricketing terms and not be stumped as the banter gets lively as we give the Australians …

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Cutting right through the Star Wars toy chaff – The Jedi training ball is the dogs undercarriage

jedi training ball

“Too many Star Wars toys out there there are” as one little green man whose name rhymes with soda never ever said. Hard to disagree with these wise words though is it not? We’ve championed a few, and, ahead of the pre-xmas release of the new film, have a few …

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Lightseekers: Boulder & Zyrus – The new boys on the block are pure rock & scroll

lightseekers

Having just finished a gargantuan, glowing review of Lightseekers HERE, you can imagine my glee when the two new boys appeared on the doorstep. 8 hours later, it was 2am and I had to shut off the iPad – Lightseekers Awakening had stolen yet another evening. The two newbies are …

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