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Frozen slips to second spot

Ah how we miss the relentless tuneful tones of youngsters singing “let it go, let it gooooo” at every opportunity, those sweet lyrics fading away from every day/hour/minute of ones life are, in some part, responsible for the demise of licences toys of the Frozen variety too. It’ll be no surprise …

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The Bear is Back

  In his first outing the Ted in question was totally unsuitable for kids and perfectly formed childishly fun humour for grown-ups, the often inappropriate bear returns to the big screen tonight and you should go and see it, if you’re 15 or above that is. The stars of the Show Mr Mark …

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Back to the Future birthday celebrations

Three decades have passed since Back to the Future was released, this very fact alone will make many feel quite aged momentarily, and for others you’ll wonder how it is still such a thing. The flux capacitors day of reckoning is yet to arrive (21st October 2015) and our main …

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Parrot takes to the water

French outfit Parrot most certainly has the most diverse drone offering of any manufacturer and whilst others are going bigger, adding 4K cameras, increasing rotor count and other such offerings it is good to see that this lot are sticking to fun. At a launch event last night (featuring my favourite cheese and …

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Anki shifts up a gear, leaves slots standing

First seen at New York Toy Fair back in January the lid had now been fully lifted on exactly what ANKI Overdrive will look like on its 20th September release date. Now we were pretty much open-mouthed when we played its predecessor, Drive, but this new kit overcomes the only …

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Need for speed

LEGO is at the Goodwood Festival of Speed together with its range of Speed Champions, vehicles from Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche as well as a couple of famous faces immortalised in the Danish brick minifigure form. Visitors to the Porsche stand at Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend are getting …

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Car show vroom

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is almost a complete sell out the the next few days but for the chance to stand amongst this grin inducing stand by Honda is almost worth the entry fee alone. Celebrating their 2015 range the car manufacturer have stuck them all in super-sized toy …

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Summer essentials

After months of planning, weeks of grafting, sleepless nights all leading to a single day of off-the-scale-fun we can finally reveal the 2015 winners of our prestigious (yes really, we we’ve applied for a Queens seal) Outdoor Playtime Awards *Fanfare*. Under the watchful eyes of Beau from The Toy Farm, Bex …

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Christmas is coming

With only half a year left for the big man and his elves to sort through that naughty/nice list there’s a helping hand for the team at the North Pole as to what’ll likely be popular this Yule so they can stock up. This is about the earliest list we’ve …

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Retro revival time

Demand for vintage Airfix kits has been on the increase of late and so its owners Hornby have decided to do something about it, and we’re all rather excited. Called Kitstarter, this new venture with its fancy new economy moniker lets folk vote on retro sets and thereby decide which …

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