The winners of the Outdoor Toy Awards 2024 all received their gongs today after a weekend of rigorous testing by the 20 plus strong group of critics. Made up of a wide range of those most critical of judges an afternoon of serious fun took place after a number of days …
Read More »Outdoor ToyAwards – The best of 2024
The date is set, the kid testers invitations have been sent, the outdoor space has been secured and the lengthy process of deciding what pizza toppings our Toyminators will crave on the day is underway. In its seventh year the Outdoor Toy Awards brings together the very best of the …
Read More »Outdoor Toy Awards 2023 – Winners Announcement
The winners of the Outdoor Toy Awards 2023 today receive their well-deserved gongs, ten categories were under scrutiny from the critics who attended the event last weekend. With over 20 kids in attendance and seventy-PLUS toys to test it was a gruelling afternoon of fun in the sun all …
Read More »Splash, Blast, thank you Hasbro for the Super Soaker Dartfire
In an effort to offer maximum flexibility the NERF boffins have created this Super Soaker/ NERF hybrid – An excellent concept that promises the “Best of both worlds”. Well, that simply cannot be the case. Super Soakers are generally ok, NERF blasters range from OK to outstanding but we’re willing …
Read More »Outdoor Play to be celebrated with dedicated awards
Back with a bang this year the Outdoor Toy awards will return to wide open spaces and have plenty of kids putting toys through their paces. Toyology and the Kidzcoolit network will be overseeing the media and social coverage. There will be ten toys crowned the must-haves for get-out-and-up-and-active. “We’re …
Read More »Fancy bagging a bundle?
There has always been a row in our house, the word “bundle” apparently, on the South West of England was the word describing that very childish pursuit of kids laying on top of each other for no apparent reason, well, apart from to leave the person at the bottom of …
Read More »We’re celebrating Outdoor play – you in?
The Outdoor toy category had a blinder in 2020 contributing double digit growth in its category and helping the very healthy UK toy market to a bumper year. Now, we’ll not rattle on about the benefits of outdoor play, we love a console game, Nintendo Switch head-to-head battle, yes please. …
Read More »Tech infused old school play
Pressure Games have launched their Kickstarter campaign for, Countdown. Back it, we love it, its a tech infused toy that brings all the fun of “up and active” gaming into one circular box. There are a dozen games built-in, each one a retro inspired play using reflex, logic and movement …
Read More »We’re all playing more now – indoors and out
Number crunchers a Global information outfit The NPD Group have been looking at the board game and toy playing habits of Brits and our European neighbours during lockdown confinement. According to their latest consumer research, 31% said they had played with games and toys more since the start of lockdown. …
Read More »Make Play While the Sun Shines
I can’t abide sunshine. Truly. I know this puts me in a tiny minority, but every time the mercury rises above 15-degrees Celsius or so, I retreat into the shadows like a theatrical villain. Nothing, but nothing, will coax me out to play on a sunny day… Until now. Why? …
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