TOYOLOGY Toyology-The Action Men of the batteries not included industry
There are a few rights of passage as a parent, teaching cycle riding, turning splashing into some form of swimming, that first LEGO set or Jigsaw, a fairground ride and/or arcade experience and ending up with 1,00’s of tickets (usually enough for a Chupa Chups and, building a Cozy Coupe. …
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August, 2022
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22 August
More is always more when it comes to Bubble blasting
No doubt there is some satisfaction from those sub one-quid plastic tubs with the hard-to-remove plastic dipper to get the bubbles in action BUT, you just can’t dip and dispense your soapy spheres fast enough can you? So, step up a multitude of machines that can do just so, and …
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18 August
Lite Brite – peg art gets all grown-up
At its core the Lite Brite hasn’t changed that much since inception 55 years back, yet, with this set will most certainly drag a brand new audience into its peg-lights. This, the largest ever set at 16x 16” is complete with 6,000 mini-pegs to create decent displays from the guidebooks …
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16 August
LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Express Collector’s Edition
Rich in details both inside and out, the 118cm long and 5129 piece set includes the steam engine, features light up bricks and replica of Platform 9 ¾. The folks at LEGO have shaken the piggy bank and are offering up a pretty decent prize to play, build and …
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16 August
Diversity in dolls – Barbie leading the way
This range of diverse Barbie fashionista dolls are about to arrive in the UK (Thursday 18th) and we’re thinking of camping up overnight to snag them fist. We have a Barbie doll with behind-the-ear hearing aid, Ken doll with vitiligo, a new Fashionista doll with prosthetic leg and a wheelchair …
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14 August
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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3 August
A Knock Off!
First encountered at Toy Fair way back in January then bumped into them in Birmingham and, on both occasions, forget to give them a shout out here. Idea is a simple one, cans on poles, poles on bases, bases placed at competition distance – discs then thrown. everything in the …
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July, 2022
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29 July
The nations favourite stations
There are Trump cards covering just about every subject imaginable, this set is head-slappingly simple and we’re unsure as to how it has taken this long to arrive. Celebrating a necessary evil, the always overpriced Motorway service station, the place that has you by the short and curlies on price, …
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28 July
National Lampoon – The forgotten Xmas film?
W We consider this to be a classic Xmas caper that does get forgotten in favour of the outstanding Farrell film ELF (plus other classics of course) but please put this one on your playlist this Yule and get merry with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. In fact, go a step …
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25 July
Pull over for some analogue play
Kids entertainment outfit Spin Master have teamed up with Welcome Break, UK’s leading service station provider, to bring a bit of relief to road-trips. Spin Master games will be set up in various food courts in Welcome Break motorway service areas across the UK for a bit of fun during …
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25 July
Asterix Playmobil sets are outstanding
We’re certainly thinking that the Danish brick builder missed a trick here, but, looking at what Playmobil have created are also in the mind that they were the perfect partner to bring this iconic character to life. For those unaware Asterix started as a comic strip, then his own book, …
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22 July
T-Rex toilet scene set anyone?
Of course you do, Mattel know it too, this infamous scene from the first Jurassic adventure features the uptight lawyer Gennaro – Grab yours HERE, it went on release just now. In full, the scene, from the folks at Jurassic Park Wiki : “Gennaro starts reciting the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer …
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22 July
Separated at birth – Send us your stuff
First up in this semi-regular (read when we find anything half-decent) is this NERF Blaster with a name thats far too long in the hope you give up reading the packaging and buy it anyways. It is the NERF Super Soaker Hydro frenzy water blaster 3 in 1. The Nerf …
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20 July
Need for Speed (and plenty of design options)?
HEXBUG have reinvented the RC tuner car category and launched this fully customisable range called HEXMODS. The sets give kid(ults) experimenting with different modification opportunities to create personalised dream machines. There’s two sets in the range: Pro Series Elite The Falcon comes with a selection of body styles, hoods, side …
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