Toy Reviews

July, 2014

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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27 February
K’NEX releases more pictures of Titanfall toys

K'NEX has released some new snaps of the Titanfall toys play-sets and packaging, including the powerful Ogre Titan.
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26 February
Scalextric RCS brings smartphones to slot-racing

With Scalextric RCS, smart devices will allow owners a level of features never before seen in slot-racing.
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21 February
Gadget Show Live adds Kids Tech Arena

Children visiting this year's Gadget Show Live will be able to get hands-on with toys and gadgets in the new Kids Tech Arena.
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20 February
Tek Recon blends video game features with blasters

Tek Recon adds First Person Shooter features to NERF-like toy blasters. Players can now hunt down enemies with a GPS radar, Call of Duty-style.
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20 February
Tech Too offers toddlers their own grown-up gadgets

These toys are hoping to save Apple devices up and down the land by providing kids with their own feature-packed technological devices.
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18 February
‘Tech-hanced’ features bring Marvel Morphsuits to life

Wearers of the latest line-up of Marvel Morphsuits can add some extra clout to their costume with the inclusion of themed smartphone effects and augmented reality features. To bring the costumes to life, budding super heroes can slot their iOS or Android devices into a specially engineered slot. Then, via …
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