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Keep a tally of your keepy-uppy’s

Counts your Keepy-Uppy score to 100, lights up each time and speaks your score. Stick in the supplied bung and it’s just a regular football so you can practice without the electronic voice humiliation in your early practice sessions. Yours for £20 at MENKIND     

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LEGO making gains toward their green ambitions

The Danish brick builder have made a breakthrough on their journey to move away from oil-based plastics. A prototype has been unveiled of a brick made from recycled bottles. The goal set by LEGO is to eliminate all oil-based plastics from the 75 billion pieces it produces by 2030, but …

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On yer’ bike

Was the Chopper the very best bike ever? Ok, so the Grifter gave it a run for it’s money with the twist-grip-gear-change, the Striker perhaps with its pedal back brakes was good at leaving rubber skids on the road,  but, anyone with a Chopper could give, with some practice, at …

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SteamPunk building kits incoming

Hornby has amongst its various companies one by the name of Basset-Lowke, a company with a long-established history in creating detailed kit for hobby train enthusiasts. Last year they launched a range of SteamPunk trains and carriages as they moved to specialise and this year bring us a new range …

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Get back on track with these Scalextric rides

    As a group Hornby lifted themselves into a profit last year for the first time in almost a decade. People buying up train sets and Airfix kits to keep themselves sane, Scalextric tracks being dusted down and inspiring people to buy new track to extend their current figure …

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Outdoor Toy Awards 2021 – the winners (and some notable mentions)

After a few interesting logistical challenges and plenty of jumping, running, bouncing,blasting and such we can announce (finally) the winners of this years Outdoor Toy Awards. Thanks to DC Thompson magazines, Jaadin the Kid, What the Red Head Said, Dadvengers, Martin Roberts, Kidzcoolit and Fun Kids for their media support..Here …

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LEGO shows off its buildable Adidas Superstar sneaker

Continuing their collaboration with Adidas it is now the turn of the brickmaker to create a display version paying homage to their Superstar shoe. It is 27 inches when completed and measures up at a size 7.5 but there’s no room for a foot inside. Definitely worthy of its shelf …

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Have a blast with the lights off

This here new ProjeX is a projecting arcade gaming system, needs no screens just a blank wall. Select one of the interchangeable slides to choose your target, there’s ducks, UFO’s or targets -each with their own sound effects. A handful of different ways to play along with three skill levels, …

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Classic game titles from Shuffle celebrate the mullet era

  The Shuffle brand from the house of Cartamundi have created this line of iconic card games based on iconic films of yesteryear. They send us a bunch to celebrate their launch and packed the box with a random selection of items along with the game which did rather intrigue …

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Wanderlusters awaken – This LEGO set is a must.

Biggest ever set yet, yes, by creating a map of the world with single studs the people of Billund have smashed the previous high piece score tally by a country mile. There are 11,695 “elements” in this 2D representation of the earth, and it has customisable brick-built pins to mark …

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