It is a rather special day today, well, we think so. Having conducted extensive research amongst our in-house experts and external consultants, media professionals from around the globe and further afield it has been decided that today, with 99 days to go until Christmas, should be celebrated. The number 99 …

McLaren Formula 1 Team driver Lando Norris completed a lap around Silverstone (5.891km) in this life-size car made up of 342,817 LEGO Technic elements and an electric motor; the first big build the LEGO Group has ever made capable of steering and driving an entire lap of a racetrack The 1:1 scale …

CORGI Toys 267 Batmobile is back in the die cast range, it hasn’t had that accolade for forty years. Following success of recent classic re-releases including the Captain Scarlet (Classic) – Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle, Stingray and Thunderbird 2, this Batmobile, based on the ride from the 1966 TV show has all the classic gadgets …

Happy Pharrell Williams and LEGO are embarking on a mission, part of said mission is a £94.99 set of 966 pieces they designed in collaboration calling it “Over the Moon”. The song singing, rapping,  fashion designing record producing person has plenty time on his hand right so, he is plugging …

Mr Hammond has a classic car restoration business, its name is The Smallest Cog and Corgi have teamed up with the Ex Top Gear presenter to bring us this 1:43 replica of the Ford Escort Mk2 RS2000 in Midnight Blue. This was the first car restored by The Smallest Cog …

It is the 20th anniversary of Ticket to Ride and Days of Wonder have shown us this  series of exclusive Deluxe Train Sets about to be released to celebrate the two-decade milestone. A limited-edition number of sets each containing 45 finely detailed train cars together with three standard stations for …

Creating such a crooked form with the Danish brick must bring it’s own challenges, yet, the LEGO designers have done wonders to re-create the Weasleys Ottery St Catchpole abode near perfectly. This dwelling started life as a sturdy ground-floor afair and the family added to it over the years but …

For the first time, Southeastern has partnered with a ‘toyologist’ (aka me) and some play experts to give customers travelling on selected highspeed services this week a very special journey ‘EnterTrainMent’ runs through the first week of August and includes a fantastic selection of games for customers to play on their …

Hot off the press from The Toybook is that the series that proved a huge hit on Netflix, The toys that made us, is set to return with two new episodes and, despite no-one cited with distribution, the streamer would be a fool not to right? “By far the most …

Six decades after the original Barbie hit shelves, Mattel have launched their first blind Barbie doll further making their range more inclusive and has been created in a bid to make blind and low-vision children more represented within society. The doll holds a white and red cane with a marshmallow …