News

September, 2014

4 September
Sphero took some Steroids

The robotic ball has long been a favourite in the Towers, we’ve Bluetooth controlled almost daily for many months, in the early days as we we’re testing out the new apps that arrived almost daily, augmented reality beavers is hard to beat and late night driving enjoying the multitude of …
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2 September
Water wars – Up the ante

Right on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign rising almost a million $ to take water fights to the next level Bunch O Balloons has teamed up with toy outfit ZURU so they can distribute the device globally and ensure that one nation does not retain superpower status when …
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16 August
Drivers, Roll Out.

We’ve just in recovery mode after a brief head-in-hands stage, the discovery of this head-slappingly simplistic solution to the age old issue of restrictive options with track layouts for car role play fanatics is right here, Road on a Roll. Designed by dad Baz Jennings. this graphic designer was frustrated …
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14 August
You’ve got Toymail

Keeping in touch with the kids as you work those 16 hour/ 7 day a week shift patterns as you try and get your new business off the ground, or are somehow unfortunate enough to be working for some company whose ethics are based on Victorian values, can be tricky. They might, after a short time forget your voice, perhaps not let you in your own home when you’ve forgotten your keys, refer to you always in third person tense - What is to be done?
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30 July
Xmas in July – The Digital

The first Digital Xmas in July was delivered last night, whilst journalists slept santas helper snuck around their offices and left many of them gifts as they'd been good boys and girls.
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29 July
Technic’s latest set – A stunning Swede

The Scandic nation just keeps on giving and now, their construction equipment brand, famous the globe over, has teamed up with its neighbouring brick maker to bring us this epic Technic set
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17 July
Accentuate arrives, time to try your regional ranting

The latest addition to the growing “badult” games sector is this accent based card game that has the potential to utterly humiliate you amongst friends or indeed show off your mimicking skills to the max. Played in teams of two or more you’ll pick a quotation card and read it …
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17 July
Capital gets the Top Trump treatment

As the globes most iconic city, the official number one tourist destination in the Universe it is only right it should have a Top Trump set dedicated to its landmarks. Grab yourself a set of these new cards, think of it as a pocket tour guide and whip them …
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11 June
New Construction Kit on the block

It is one of the most exciting innovations in the construction category for a while
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5 June
Playing with your mind

the ability to control on-screen action with your brainwaves
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26 May
Arctic conditions in LEGO City

Launched this week at the National Geographic Store in central London a group of lucky kids joined brand ambassador, the record-breaking explorer Ben Saunders who himself is immortalised in the range with an axe-weilding minifigure of himself
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10 May
Leapfrog LeapBand – Learning in Motion

So Leapfrog, purveyors of top-notch tablet style edutainment tablets, have stuck their own piece of kit into the burgeoning “activity band” category.
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13 March
Football fever is fast approaching

This all-new Football Fever 1,000 piece brain mangler features an image on the box that only offers a clue to the solution, fiendish eh?
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13 March
Flappy bird plush doubles as game controller

with wireless sensor inside that you’ll move up and down to navigate the on-screen animation though the pipes (or other obstacles).
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5 March
LEGO Mixels launched from up high

Kids of all ages gathered early doors on the 1st March for the launch of LEGO Mixels
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