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Do not adjust your set – We have a doll here with a difference

We’ve gone a bit soft here at Toyology Towers, we were introduced to Elli a few weeks back and, well she most certainly stands out from the overcrowded crowd. We imagine that Elli is a doll little ones will love. She is fully interactive – when ‘mummy’ or ‘daddy’ wear the …

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Ten minute property trading game – Monopoly Speed is here

Everyone rolls and buys simultaneously over four rounds, so no faffing about waiting for your go, you’re against the timer and you’ll be buying, trading, and selling properties faster than a dodgy estate agent. The timer counts down each buying and trading stage with no break in-between, you’ve two GO spaces, …

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Fast, fun and frantic – Beat That is THE post pub party game

Many laugh out loud moments! A quick summary here folks from one of our testers : Players compete over 10 silly challenges. Most are physical such as throwing balls into cups or stacking dice with chopsticks. There are a few mental challenges too, such as a quick-fire round of naming …

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LEGO buys BrickLink

  The LEGO Group went shopping this week and picked up BrickLink, the third party LEGO re-selling site. Founded back in 2000 it is regarded pretty much as a marketplace for LEGO related items, a platform, mainly for AFOL’s to buy and sell the brick. According to Brick Fanatics, BrickLink has …

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Harry Potter LEGO Knight Bus hits the actual road

We’re off to central London for the next few hours to see if we can’t catch one of these branded buses launched yesterday. The Knight Bus looking good, budgets didn’t stretch to including an actual third level but they’ve done a cracking job we think….  

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Disney and Saks 5th Avenue hook up for Frozen 2 extravaganza

We’ll let the pictures do the talking whilst we go book our New York tickets….Monday, sadly the one that’s just gone, Frozen 2 came to life at Saks Fifth Avenue in collaboration with Disney. They had a special musical performance by Idina Menzel, who is the voice of Elsa and Saks’s …

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Return to Arendelle (and other places) – Frozen 2 is finally here

  Six years in the making/waiting and Frozen II is finally here, expect the ear-worms to be warbling across the nation as from today. Unsurprisingly there’s a plethora of playthings to celebrate the film, cynics amongst you may say that most of them have been repurposed/repacked from unsold stock from …

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LEGO and BBC get together for this Top Gear effort

The headline from the press release reads – “First ever set from the LEGO Group in partnership with BBC’s Top Gear”. The rest of it goes on about how this LEGO Technic App Controlled Top Gear Rally Car is going to be available globally from Boxing Day and features stickers …

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No Barbie or Ken – Mattels new Creatable dolls redefine the gender line

Kids can create their own customisable characters again and again with the Creatable World Deluxe Character Kit Creatable World is the perfect purchase for imaginative kids as they can create their very own looks. Each one of the £35(ish) sets includes a doll, a wig to transform the hairstyle and …

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