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Billed as the largest independent vote for toys that’ll be top of wish-lists, maybe sell-out, definitely not lead to mass 1980’s Cabbage Patch hysteria the Toy Retailers association told us of its top 20 products. Here are the toys, in no particular order of preference, just alphabetical, the fairest method …

A hugely successful month of awards for Thames and Kosmos UK. Fresh from seven Toy of the Year nominations and Gecko Run being chosen as one of Time Magazines best Inventions of 2024, they’ve also won big at this year’s Blog On awards, with 14 trophies for the cabinet. Family …

Without a doubt this year has seen the biggest variety of advent calendars we think ever offered. From your Food and drink based ones thought to oh-so-many beauty branded ones who knows where to begin. There aren’t so many which are creative really, plenty of variations on a theme, we …

Figures, assorted characters, collectibles, stuff in bags, things in boxes all manner of merch has been unleashed from the Skibidi machine. This Mystery Toilet is at the spendy end, at £50 you get 2 figures, a lanyard, four stickers which is a bit underwhelming but the toilet itself is actually …

Jada’s near two-foot atomic breathing stomping RC machine On this day in 1954 Godzilla premiered in Japan, created with bamboo sticks and wire as a frame for the interior of the suit and added metal mesh and coats of latex with coats of molten rubber and carved indentations and strips …

Too many Halloween puns and cliches have already bee attributed to our adventure down to the most haunted village in the UK today, so, we’ll stop ourin the headline. Yes folk, armed with games from Big Potato, Hachette, Thames and Kosmos, Exploding Kittens and a severed hand from Simba Smoby …

Born Kitty White in London on Nov. 1, 1974 – Technically it isn’t quite her birthday but nevertheless fans have been celebrating for a few months already now, snapping up all manner of merch before it’s all been bagged by a new legion of fans. The cat has collaborated with …

They’ve WOW’ed us with their multi microchipped and server packed Optimus Prime, we really only scratched the surface with what it could do, transforming it Robot/Truck RPT over and over until we found our favourite bit, that he slumped down to the ground when depleted of battery – It is …

Apparently one if five folk pretend not to be indoors at Halloween to avoid the Belsnikeler’s, yes, the German tradition that led to Trick or Treating. This All Hallows Eve pursuit from the Europeans involved kids knocking on doors dressed up and the person at the door had to try …

THE ORIGINAL EGG Back in 2016, those heady days pre-pandemic, the year we voted for BREXIT but hadn’t any idea WTF might happen, all pailing into insignificance as Trump got himself an American presidency and, the original Hatchimals was, well, hatched. Selling over 14 million units this cardboard egg pecking …