Tag Archives: toys

Smyths Toys announce their Xmas top toy picks

A solid combination of those “Big Pressie” purchases from the toy retailer for 2022. Nothing jumps over the £100 mark and there is certainly something here for everyone, even a family game, missing from most retailers top toy picks. Joint Head of Marketing at Smyths Toys, Sinead Byrne tells us …

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LEGO opens biggest store yet

After a four month refurbishment the Leicester Square shop re-opened this week to much fanfare and frolicsAdding 300 SQ metres the total space is now 805 SQ metres and feels far more spacious than previously and with more on offer for the casual non-LEGO buyer too. From the Discovery Tree …

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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 …

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Late Late Toy show didn’t disappoint

Plenty of playthings, entertainment exceeding expectations, great to see some toys back on the Tellybox as there’s a real lack of TV shows with them featured this year. The show had a real mix of brands and products and is well worth a watch, HERE are some of the best …

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Dream toys 2021 – Has us in a slumber

Announced earlier the much lauded Dream Dozen, the top 12 toys that’ll have us in a cold sweat as parents if we don’t get one before they all sell out has been announced. There’s no rush, trust us – None of these will sell out, it is a dreary list …

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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 …

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Taschen title celebrates toys

We’re huge fans of Taschen books, coffee table dwellers packed with pictures, they make superb and substantial gifts with subject matter covering all manner of matters. This one has of course caught our eye, a homage to American Toy advertising, it is £30 and out in a couple of weeks …

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NETFLIX heading down under

Toikido is the master toy partner for Netflix’s new animated film Back to the Outback which makes its global debut in Autumn 2021 – Toikido are set to be sending toys, action figures and plush products right across planet earth. Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans …

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Toy-tastic news – Hasbro and Uber with half-term treats.

Uber Eats and Hasbro are launching a free toy store this week, it opens on the 17th and stays so until the 20th. There’s a poll, of course there is, some findings from it are almost three quarters (70%) of parents admit they are feeling overwhelmed as they juggle work …

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