Monthly Archives: July 2020

New twist on Erno’s mind-mangling cube

Rubik’s have produced the first official app to help teach us how to solve it.  This iOS app uses audio and visual clues real-life popular puzzle and help improve and record your solve times.  It’ll use your mobile camera together with artificial intelligence processing to track your real 3D Rubik’s …

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Perseverance sets off to Mars

At a cost of billions we do wonder WHY but the madcap professors and their underlings appear to be keen on seeing if life did exist on Mars so they’re sending up a rocket with a rover on-board. The red planet is a bit of an enigma, so we’ll see …

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Tech infused old school play

Pressure Games have launched their Kickstarter campaign for, Countdown. Back it, we love it, its a tech infused toy that brings all the fun of “up and active” gaming into one circular box. There are a dozen games built-in, each one a retro inspired play using reflex, logic and movement …

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Only Fools and Horses fans – This way please

A replica of that Yellow Trotters Independent Trading van, a flat in Peckham perhaps – all aspirational objects for fans of the show, here’s one for just £14.99 though and we think you’ll like it. Boycie in Belgrade is a new documentary featuring John Challis as he sets of to Serbia …

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Hot Wheels sketches of cars arriving in 2021

Unveiled at last weeks San Diego Comic Con these are a few of the sketches from the 20+ shown-off to Hot Wheels fans last week.. The HeMan and Skeletor ride look pretty impressive, you can keep the Baby Yoda though.

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Olympic(ish) eventing for the home

Today would’ve been the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, the first events kicking off tomorrow and a full two-weeks of sporting goodness on the goggle-boxes, sigh. Still, we get to do it all next year , likely with a bit of added fanfare, and we cannot wait. In fact, …

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The latest in the LEGO 18+ range has our wallet feeling weary – but so what?

Here it is, the first-ever brick built Grand Piano from LEGO. Fresh out of the LEGO Ideas operation this set is the latest aimed at the “adults” with £319.99 spare cash and 3,662 pieces of spare time. It is an intricate build and at over 8.5” (22.5cm) high, 12” (30.5cm) …

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Rip-racing explosive four-wheel fun anyone?

    Right, our Boom City Racer cars have arrived and, before we turn the Out of Office on let us give you the lowdown. Falling into the category of “rippers” this genre of toy has been around since the 70’s, a threaded piece of plastic inserted into the chassis …

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Two sporting greats

The headline is of course purely subjective, some say golf ruins a good walk, others prefer the egg-shaped ball in play with grown people running around after it. The arrival of Footgolf a few years back did make me wonder “Why” but, after seeing the sport increase in popularity seems …

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Hasbro and Mattel unveil their Comic-Con lines

Both the toy makers have a history of keeping some of their very best launches for Comic-Con gatherings and, despite each not having a booth presence this year they’re each still making plenty noise around the now virtual gathering. FRom Hasbro a line-up that’ll go live on their PULSE website …

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