From Bikes to Birds, cars to creatures this range of mechanical wooden toys from EWA blew us away over the weekend. DEcent build, lots of details, and, moving parts to marvel at. Prices from around €30 upwards, well worth a punt for xmas gifting (hard-to-buy-fors especially).
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Each exhibit has been lovingly crafted by renowned U.S. artist and designer Leila Fakouri – who has previously designed sets for brands including Chanel, Nike, Gap and Levis – and features a classic Fisher-Price toy that has been stylised to match the look and feel of the decade the toy was first on …
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Smyths Toys have teamed up with Funko to create a Smyths Toys exclusive POP! Vinyl of their lovable brand character, Oscar – and all profits are going to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) to help support seriously ill children. Starting from 15 October, the Oscar POP! …
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Ye Ole Telegraph gave me a platform to round up my favourite family games, HERE it is brilliant (if I say so myself). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/0/best-family-board-games-christmas-2020/
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Forget your chocolate infused countdown calendars, actually, do buy one of those as your secondary December countdown kit but do consider one of these as your primary piece (lasting much longer than that melt-in-the-mouth stuff). Friends Advent – £24.99 from Firebox Packed with memorabilia, stationery and games its ideal …
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It is an absolute classic, invented a few decades back as a post-pub party game and it’s not one of the most recognisable brands on the toy block – Jenga. they try new variants, none come close to the original (although the XL version is a fine bit of kit), …
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So British Airways flew their two Boing 747 aircraft out of Heathrow for the very last time today. We’ve been lucky enough to fly on one of these beasts. Half a decade since these aircraft were introduced and there are still well over 300 still flying but today marked a …
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Thames & Kosmos UK have given us the nudge about their Master Detective Toolkit and we cannot wait to unleash our inner Columbo, Kojak, Starsky/Hutch, Poirot, DCI Jane Tennison, Rebus and Luther! – Just compiling a combination of clothing/accessories from each would be fun. Anyways, back to the sets themselves, …
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Measuring in at a mere 9.9mm and weighting in at two grams, this ultra-precision plaything is made from aluminium aluminum toy, comes with its own pedestal and small enough to sit on a 1p coin – all this for 198,00 Yen, $1,900 or about £1,480. “We sought to create an …
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We’ve seen a few lists these past few weeks, many included the usual subjects but this one from Smyths has some new entries : WWE Wrekkin’ Slambulance Pokémon Carry Case Star Wars Mandalorian The Child Animatronic L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. Remix 4-in-1 Plane and Remix dolls Barbie Princess Adventure Prance & …
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TOYOLOGY Toyology-The Action Men of the batteries not included industry
