Monthly Archives: June 2020

head-to-head word game anyone?

  Bananagrams, that tile based word game where you don’t take turns has spawned an offspring – Bananagrams Duel. Duel is a tasty word game snack for those on the go, a two-player word game and race to build your own word grid using letter cubes. Bananagrams Duel includes some …

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Story box just gets better

  The kids audio story delivery device, aka tonies have added the Playtime and Action Songs 2 Tonie to its collection of stories and songs along with an enchanting Creative-Tonie Fairy. Interactive storytelling is a space that these people really own and it is all done with no screens, we are rather big …

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Fun and games for nine decades – Fisher-Price plays on

  You’ve likely never heard of a place called East Aurora, New York,but it is home to the toy company who have brought us some of the most iconic playthings of the past century. Fisher-Price celebrates 90 years of making play today – Creators of the Chatter Telephone,Corn Popper and …

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Start with the corners – LEGO have a new jigsaw line

It’s a 1,000 piece play, would it take longer to finish than a 1,000 piece LEGO set? Around £20 and there’s a minifig one and a couple of other colourful sets too – This is the one we’d hang on the wall once done though.  

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Beatles branded Hornby train

Since their first clockwork train in 1920 the train makers have created all manner of carriages and engines. They recently raised over £150k with a special set dedicated to the NHS and Captain Tom of raising over £30mn fame. We stumbled across this unit which was created to celebrate the …

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Retro-o-clock – Time to grab a mini Atari machine

This pair of licences ATARI mini-cabinets are just £25 each, turn minutes into hours as each one has plenty games inside to play on the 2.8 inch screen. The red one with the legendary Centipede and Adventure, Sprint Master, Gravitar and Yars’ Revenge and the PONG  machine with paddles and …

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Replica robot from the Renaissance

In between painting the Mona Lisa and Last Supper the 15th centuries busiest man was knocking up early drawings of flying machines, parachutes, diving suits and just happened to create a robot knight. Yup, the painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman, in 1495 designed the first robot, a …

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LEGO Hidden Sides unveils latest sets

Seems that the foray into the world of Augmented Reality is paying off for the Danish brick maker. Here we are into series three and, with something on offer for all budgets and build sizes, those who have been collecting all parts of the LEGO Newbury spook town so far are …

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Tightrope walking robot – not spendy and totally necessary

   The blurb on the box tells us that through eight experiments we can explore the astonishing powers of the motorised gyroscope and understand the physics behind its amazing behaviours and yada-yada-yada, experiments, science and explanations and so on….. This bot can, after some pretty straight forward putting together, …

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Totally Bodacious – Bill and Ted are coming back

It is over 30 years since their most Excellent Adventure and almost 30 since they embarked on a (far too soon after the first) quite questionable Bogus Journey. And now, ladies and gentlemen on this, Bill and Ted day they are trending across social media as the trailer for their …

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