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October, 2012

  • 23 October

    Use some Force

        You Star Wars fans are a lucky lot, is there no licencing stone that’s not been unturned? Aftyer spending your hard-earned on eeverything from undercrackers and Pjamas to LEGO sets and talking soft toys now you’ll have to find some more cash for the very compelling Origami book. …

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  • 18 October

    Inflatable Pigs anyone?

      The original Pass the Pigs game is a decent time-passing bit of  fun, in our mind up there with the likes of Yahtzee. We’re not sure when or where we’ll play this enlarged version of the original but want to own it just on the basis of having two …

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  • 11 October

    Dr Who fans in for an AR treat

      Battle against some of the faraway foes as if they’ve just appeared from behind your sofa with the new Quantum Lock Accelerator replica appcessory together with and the Cleric Wars game on your smartphone. The first person viewpoint on your screen together with the Augmented Reality has Daleks, Angels …

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  • 8 October

    Ride-on/in Artoo

      Hankering after ones youth is a useless pursuit, yet one hard not to participate in when something like this comes along. The realese of Star Wars in 1977 was accompanied by some school class compadres buying steel bins and sticking a few stickers on them for an R2D2 effect, …

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  • 6 October

    Break a record, learn a build – sign up to a LEGO centre

                  EIGHT LEGOLAND Discovery Centres across the world are set to celebrate the joy of learning to build a LEGO model, this November, with a Guinness World Record first. On Thursday 15 November, Guinness World Record Day, the children’s attractions will be holding a …

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September, 2012

  • 26 September

    HALO fans – Xmas is coming early

                      You might, as gaming fans of the Halo franchise, have been disappointed that after almost five years there’s been nothing – Time has certainly flown by (perhaps not for serious HALO fans) but we’re about to get HALO 4, and it …

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  • 25 September

    Furby is Back

      When Furby 1.0 arrived back in the nineties the furore ranged from slight altercations in the aisles as parents camped out for shops to open and grab the last of the furry stock to folks flying to New York to satisfy the under-the-tree desires of their ankle-biters. Launched this …

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  • 21 September

    Shoot the Spooks

          We wouldn’t call ourselves super-skeptical but certainly over-wary when told about some great new game, that’s a guaranteed grin-inducer, but of all the boxes to arrive at Toyology Towers this extra-busy September so far, Ghost Hunt has had more of our attention than most. Inside the box …

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  • 17 September

    Top Toys for 2012 revealed

    You’ll have seen a fair few top ten toy lists (or excellent eights, terrific 12’s etc) over the past couple of months, all of them from the big players in the UK toy market. Today, Online toy directory, Toy Shop UK, published the results for their 2012 Independent Toy Awards. …

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