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Classic films get the jigsaw treatment

A trio of our favourite retro films just got puzzled, a trio a 500 piece put-togethers for your rainy afternoon delight. When done they sit at an impressive and wall-worthy 45 x 60cm. Most certainly pop on the film in the background as your puzzle, and, each one comes complete …

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Ice Cream Van sets new Ice Cream Van World record

The man Edd China is likely best known for those who watch too much Discovery in the mid-morning. He was the mechanic on Wheeler Dealers with Mike Brewer and basically did all the graft on updating the busted cars brought into his garage by co-presenter (and slacker) Brewer. Anyways, since …

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Chatty animals anyone?

Get ready to sass it up with the all-singing, all dancing Sassimals –  Flossi the Flamingo and Ali the Alpaca are the desktop toys that’ll be the talk of the water-cooler, well Zoom call at least. I am not sure what “Sass” actually is as I have never had any …

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Funko Pop figures – Your weekly wound-up

We know there’s something pretty much every day from this outfit but you’d be putting up new shelves everywhere if we told you about every item that arrived in our inbox. So, here’s our weekly update of the best of the best (in our humble opinions). We shall keep it …

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Argos announce top toy predictions for 2020

We have LEGO Lamborghini, a pooping Flamingo, a dancing unicorn and an animatronic doll of ‘The Child’ from Disney’s The Mandalorian (aka Baby Yoda). Yes, it is probably the most eclectic collection we’ve seen assembled by the UK’s leading toy retailer and we love it. Some research they conducted* revealed …

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Leaked LEGO set has fans in a (Be)Spin

Toys R Us apparently leaked the imagery online accidentally of this new LEGO BespinDuel set, the Canadian division of the once defunct now risen from the ashes outfit, have certainly garnered plenty of free advertising from this “leak”. We thank them however sarcastic we may sound, this looks like a …

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Waka Waka – Monopoly going all Pac-Man

The Pac-Man’40th anniversary celebrations continue, this time with Hasbro releasing Monopoly Arcade Pac-Man Game – complete with tiny arcade cabinet that serves as the central mechanic for this Monopoly set. The game revolves around points as a pose to money, each turn you’ll move your icon and the ghost token. …

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New twist on Erno’s mind-mangling cube

Rubik’s have produced the first official app to help teach us how to solve it.  This iOS app uses audio and visual clues real-life popular puzzle and help improve and record your solve times.  It’ll use your mobile camera together with artificial intelligence processing to track your real 3D Rubik’s …

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Perseverance sets off to Mars

At a cost of billions we do wonder WHY but the madcap professors and their underlings appear to be keen on seeing if life did exist on Mars so they’re sending up a rocket with a rover on-board. The red planet is a bit of an enigma, so we’ll see …

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Only Fools and Horses fans – This way please

A replica of that Yellow Trotters Independent Trading van, a flat in Peckham perhaps – all aspirational objects for fans of the show, here’s one for just £14.99 though and we think you’ll like it. Boycie in Belgrade is a new documentary featuring John Challis as he sets of to Serbia …

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