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Its NERF or Ruffin’

We’re not that into our National celebratory days, what with so many of them ranging from Watermelon, Underwear and Mail order catalogue days to Chess, mouldy cheese and Rum (might forgive the last one) we have to pick our outstanding ones. Today Toy lovers is #nationaldogday and if you loves your …

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Scooby sets are Spooktacular

We’re in total agreement here at Toyology Towers that the original Scooby-Doo was by far the best, the feature film was dire and later episodes with upgraded animation techniques in place just don’t quite have the edge of the 70’s series. There are five sets in the Scooby series from …

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Twisted Classics

A recent trip to @englishheritage property Eltham Palace inn Saaf East Lahdaan uncovered some interesting finds this week. Yeah Courtauld Industrial dynasty, Art Deco amazingness, Edward VI’s pad, Henry VIII’s place too but we found a trio of rather splendid playthings amongst the paraphernalia. You can buy yours HERE or get …

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Ultimate Scalextric circuit on track for Car Fest

Hornby Hobbies is delighted to announce its Ultimate 2015 track will be available for demos, before being auctioned, at Car Fest South this summer. Designed by Sky Sports F1® expert Martin Brundle, the biggest layout the slot car track experts have ever created will take centre stage on Hornby’s stand W25. Scalextric’s …

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The Force is waking

The super-sleuths at Star Wars Forever have somehow unearthed apparent official in and out of box shots for seven of the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO sets which we most certainly don’t want (can’t) to wait until December for the film release. We have an up-to-date Millennium Falcon with the …

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LEGO loader rolls in

The sound of Piggy Banks being busted open cross the nation will occur with a domino effect as the population of our fair Isle and further afield conclude their reading of these paragraphs and bullet points. Yes, this 2,793 element build is available this saturday (1st August) – information from …

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Turf Wars

Our weekly glance over the crowd-funding sites hasn’t been too interesting of late, hence the lack of “lookie here at what we backed” style wordage, but, we’d like to raise our arms high in the air like a kid who finished a class assignment first – Mow Money, a reverse auction …

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Twisted Classic

Taking a new twist on the classic Noughts and Crosses game, which we will, for the purposes of continuity and adhering to D’Avekki Studios (the game design and production outfit) desire to base the new play on the Tic Tac Toe, somewhere in a parallel universe everyone calls it this. …

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Toys on the up

So Warner Bros, the licence holder to the iconic Dukes of Hazzard TV series have said they’ll stop, immediately, right away and without delay production of any/all Dodge charger replicas as corporates across the US distance themselves from the confederate flag. The there program was an absolute favourite in our house, Daisy …

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Seagulls targetted by Cameron

Earlier this year Steve Double, Conservative candidate for the Newquay and St Austell seat in Cornwall fought against the incumbent labour MP by announcing a whopping £250,000 to fight the plague of these avian terrorists. Mr Double is now the residing MP, having won the seat but the 1/4 million …

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