TOYOLOGY Toyology-The Action Men of the batteries not included industry
We’re in total agreement here at Toyology Towers that the original Scooby-Doo was by far the best, the feature film was dire and later episodes with upgraded animation techniques in place just don’t quite have the edge of the 70’s series. There are five sets in the Scooby series from …
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August, 2015
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19 August
Twisted Classics
A recent trip to @englishheritage property Eltham Palace inn Saaf East Lahdaan uncovered some interesting finds this week. Yeah Courtauld Industrial dynasty, Art Deco amazingness, Edward VI’s pad, Henry VIII’s place too but we found a trio of rather splendid playthings amongst the paraphernalia. You can buy yours HERE or get …
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17 August
Ultimate Scalextric circuit on track for Car Fest
Hornby Hobbies is delighted to announce its Ultimate 2015 track will be available for demos, before being auctioned, at Car Fest South this summer. Designed by Sky Sports F1® expert Martin Brundle, the biggest layout the slot car track experts have ever created will take centre stage on Hornby’s stand W25. Scalextric’s …
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16 August
The Force is waking
The super-sleuths at Star Wars Forever have somehow unearthed apparent official in and out of box shots for seven of the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO sets which we most certainly don’t want (can’t) to wait until December for the film release. We have an up-to-date Millennium Falcon with the …
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July, 2015
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30 July
LEGO loader rolls in
The sound of Piggy Banks being busted open cross the nation will occur with a domino effect as the population of our fair Isle and further afield conclude their reading of these paragraphs and bullet points. Yes, this 2,793 element build is available this saturday (1st August) – information from …
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28 July
Turf Wars
Our weekly glance over the crowd-funding sites hasn’t been too interesting of late, hence the lack of “lookie here at what we backed” style wordage, but, we’d like to raise our arms high in the air like a kid who finished a class assignment first – Mow Money, a reverse auction …
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27 July
Twisted Classic
Taking a new twist on the classic Noughts and Crosses game, which we will, for the purposes of continuity and adhering to D’Avekki Studios (the game design and production outfit) desire to base the new play on the Tic Tac Toe, somewhere in a parallel universe everyone calls it this. …
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24 July
Toys on the up
So Warner Bros, the licence holder to the iconic Dukes of Hazzard TV series have said they’ll stop, immediately, right away and without delay production of any/all Dodge charger replicas as corporates across the US distance themselves from the confederate flag. The there program was an absolute favourite in our house, Daisy …
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24 July
Seagulls targetted by Cameron
Earlier this year Steve Double, Conservative candidate for the Newquay and St Austell seat in Cornwall fought against the incumbent labour MP by announcing a whopping £250,000 to fight the plague of these avian terrorists. Mr Double is now the residing MP, having won the seat but the 1/4 million …
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9 July
Frozen slips to second spot
Ah how we miss the relentless tuneful tones of youngsters singing “let it go, let it gooooo” at every opportunity, those sweet lyrics fading away from every day/hour/minute of ones life are, in some part, responsible for the demise of licences toys of the Frozen variety too. It’ll be no surprise …
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9 July
The Bear is Back
In his first outing the Ted in question was totally unsuitable for kids and perfectly formed childishly fun humour for grown-ups, the often inappropriate bear returns to the big screen tonight and you should go and see it, if you’re 15 or above that is. The stars of the Show Mr Mark …
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3 July
Back to the Future birthday celebrations
Three decades have passed since Back to the Future was released, this very fact alone will make many feel quite aged momentarily, and for others you’ll wonder how it is still such a thing. The flux capacitors day of reckoning is yet to arrive (21st October 2015) and our main …
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3 July
Parrot takes to the water
French outfit Parrot most certainly has the most diverse drone offering of any manufacturer and whilst others are going bigger, adding 4K cameras, increasing rotor count and other such offerings it is good to see that this lot are sticking to fun. At a launch event last night (featuring my favourite cheese and …
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2 July
Anki shifts up a gear, leaves slots standing
First seen at New York Toy Fair back in January the lid had now been fully lifted on exactly what ANKI Overdrive will look like on its 20th September release date. Now we were pretty much open-mouthed when we played its predecessor, Drive, but this new kit overcomes the only …
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June, 2015
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27 June
Need for speed
LEGO is at the Goodwood Festival of Speed together with its range of Speed Champions, vehicles from Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche as well as a couple of famous faces immortalised in the Danish brick minifigure form. Visitors to the Porsche stand at Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend are getting …
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