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.  

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

   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, …

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 …

We were just wondering which one to amuse ourselves with, each is far too small for our inside leg requirements but we are hovering over the buy button on the Mongoose – You? Lucas’s bike – complete with bandana

It is likely that all your LEGO sets have had the lockdown treatment, done and dusted, sitting on the shelf, your furlough fund running a little light. Rejoice brick fans, Argos have just pulled at 20% off rabbit from their bag on a select few Technic sets and there are …

Say pfft to inflatable pools people what you’re after (despite not knowing it yet) are more impressive things than the neighbours have. Yes, lockdown has driven us to this point of wanting to “beat the Joneses”. So, perhaps you’ll go for the over-the-fence six-foot high sprinkling Unicorn? Or tempted by …