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Swine Flew

On November 7, 2012, In RC's and Robots, by peter jenkinson

 

 

 

Seems that the phrase “Pigs might fly” has been around since the 17th century in some form or other, starting out as the jaunty English comment “Pigs fly in the ayre with their tayles forward” and still then related as an expression in response to some overtly optimistic forecast. Time shift almost 400 years and the statement comez to be true, well in plastic flying form at least (unless anyone else has a story about airborne pigs they’d care to share). in the shape of this iOS and Android controlled flyer from Terox Toys. Also available in regular remote controlled form these chopper pork choppers make Oink sounds as they manoeuvre your room and so, makes them distinctly different from other remotes that are around. Get yours HERE

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Use some Force

On October 23, 2012, In Adults in mind, Deal of the Day, Featured, by peter jenkinson

 

 

You Star Wars fans are a lucky lot, is there no licencing stone that’s not been unturned? Aftyer spending your hard-earned on eeverything from undercrackers and Pjamas to LEGO sets and talking soft toys now you’ll have to find some more cash for the very compelling Origami book. There are 256 pages, 36 tear out and fold (with instructions) chracters/vehicles from the saga that never, ever, ever stops giving. £12.99 HERE

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Inflatable Pigs anyone?

On October 18, 2012, In Adults in mind, by peter jenkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original Pass the Pigs game is a decent time-passing bit of  fun, in our mind up there with the likes of Yahtzee. We’re not sure when or where we’ll play this enlarged version of the original but want to own it just on the basis of having two inflatable pigs to throw about. £14.99 HERE – Send us you pics of Pigs in unusual places

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Dr Who fans in for an AR treat

On October 11, 2012, In Adults in mind, Figures and Dolls, Film Fun, Get Involved, by peter jenkinson

 

Battle against some of the faraway foes as if they’ve just appeared from behind your sofa with the new Quantum Lock Accelerator replica appcessory together with and the Cleric Wars game on your smartphone. The first person viewpoint on your screen together with the Augmented Reality has Daleks, Angels and Cybermen stalking all about your abode, follow the on-screen guides to where they hide and begin the hunt around your room(s) to wipe them out. Its Smartphone gaming whilst not sat on your, well the get what we’re saying.

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Ride-on/in Artoo

On October 8, 2012, In Uncategorized, by peter jenkinson

 

Hankering after ones youth is a useless pursuit, yet one hard not to participate in when something like this comes along. The realese of Star Wars in 1977 was accompanied by some school class compadres buying steel bins and sticking a few stickers on them for an R2D2 effect, but look at this, lucky blighters (under a certian age and weight). Sit inside the wheel powered-Artoo and guide yourself around, not desert terrain., more like wooden floors or perfectly even tarmacadam and press a few buttons for R2D2 sound FX and the Star Wars theme. It’ll be out pre-xmas, Amazon have a pre-order and it’s £200 If you’ve the cash to splash we say grab a Princess Leia cutout too HERE

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Break a record, learn a build – sign up to a LEGO centre

On October 6, 2012, In Uncategorized, by peter jenkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EIGHT LEGOLAND Discovery Centres across the world are set to celebrate the joy of learning to build a LEGO model, this November, with a Guinness World Record first. On Thursday 15 November, Guinness World Record Day, the children’s attractions will be holding a bumper day of model building as they attempt to beat the Guinness World Record for the “largest lesson using interlocking plastic bricks”, or master model builder’s workshop to fans of the attraction. The eight especially recruited Master Model Builders based in Atlanta, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Duisberg, Kansas City, Manchester and Tokyo have put their heads together and selected three models for the world’s LEGO fans to vote on for the lessons.  Voters are asked to choose between a turkey, a Christmas train and a rocking horse. Fans can vote on the centres Facebook page The Master Model Builders hold over 40,768 LEGO building classes across the world each year, teaching over 1,019,200 children how to build using about 40, 768,000 LEGO bricks! Located in Barton Square at The Trafford Centre, the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre is made up of a series of interactive features to immerse kids into a world where their imagination can run wild with creative inspiration at every turn.  Featuring a whole host of exciting attractions from the Kingdom Quest ride to an amazing recreation of the North West’s most iconic buildings, the Centre not only provides fun for LEGO fans young and old, but fantastic educational benefits too.

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HALO fans – Xmas is coming early

On September 26, 2012, In Adults in mind, Collectables, Figures and Dolls, Film Fun, Get Involved, by peter jenkinson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You might, as gaming fans of the Halo franchise, have been disappointed that after almost five years there’s been nothing – Time has certainly flown by (perhaps not for serious HALO fans) but we’re about to get HALO 4, and it is set to be about the biggest game launch of the year. We’ve read reviews aplenty,our mates at Pocket Lint have the most word worthy and readable  of the lot. We’re excited about the plethora of playthings arriving with the release, stuff to recreate hyour on-screen action or indeed to deck out your gaming abode, this is the top of the shop, a large-scale 14-inch Collector’s Edition of the Halo 4 Warthog complete with working steering system and a hood which opens to reveal a highly detailed engine. Why not? Oh, £60 perhaps HERE

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Furby is Back

On September 25, 2012, In Collectables, Electronics, Figures and Dolls, by peter jenkinson

 

When Furby 1.0 arrived back in the nineties the furore ranged from slight altercations in the aisles as parents camped out for shops to open and grab the last of the furry stock to folks flying to New York to satisfy the under-the-tree desires of their ankle-biters. Launched this week at Hamleys the new Furby 2.0 is unlikely to cause this level of hysteria, but, if your kids do clock one of the many adverts or other marketing messages that are beginning to appear, they’ll likely want one, and we’d say get your stock in early. Initially released in six hues the new cuddly creature and its 2.0 update will fascinate with its included technology. Furby is loaded with Furbish, its own language and learns the local language from you throughout ownership, and, it develops its own personality depending on how you treat him/her/it – gentle play and you’re in for a sweetheart, rough and tumble and you might end up with a cheeky chappy/chappess. In addition there’s a Furby app so you iOS owners can interact some more and gone are the static eyes, replaced with LCD’s. It’s at the “big” present level of almost £60 but further play opportunities arise if your siblings have friends with a Furby as they can also interact. Combine all the above with the fact it’ll look good sat static too and we think Hasbro might have a winner here.

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Shoot the Spooks

On September 21, 2012, In Adults in mind, Board Games, Boys Toys, Family fun, Featured, Figures and Dolls, Reviews, by peter jenkinson

 

 

 

We wouldn’t call ourselves super-skeptical but certainly over-wary when told about some great new game, that’s a guaranteed grin-inducer, but of all the boxes to arrive at Toyology Towers this extra-busy September so far, Ghost Hunt has had more of our attention than most. Inside the box is one Billy Bones, he has a projector built in to his oversized head that projects images of ghosts randomly around your room, ceilings and walls, whilst you try and infra-red them away with the space-age shooter. There are three difficult settings from which to choose, the amatuer on which very young kids can grasp with ease, medium for family gatherings and the top-speed spook-delivery setting which sees Billy Bones shaking his head at quite a pace, reserved for a later-night racous games. Billy projects various sized spooks and when you score a hit the gun will make a chilling screm to indicate your score, hit the re-load button on top to add-ammo every six shots and down as many of these 2D spooks in a 90 second bout as you can. Yes it is £30, you could get two other board games for that, but be bored before you pass go. Available Exclusively HERE

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Top Toys for 2012 revealed

On September 17, 2012, In Board Games, Boys Toys, Collectables, Current Affairs, Edutainment, Electronics, Featured, Figures and Dolls, Get Involved, Girls Allowed, Music Makers, Outdoor Escapades, Pit Stop, Playground Crazes, Pocket Money, Tales from Toytown, Toddlers and Tots, by peter jenkinson

You’ll have seen a fair few top ten toy lists (or excellent eights, terrific 12’s etc) over the past couple of months, all of them from the big players in the UK toy market. Today, Online toy directory, Toy Shop UK, published the results for their 2012 Independent Toy Awards. Gathering opinion from the nations smaller toy retailers on what they think will be relieving wallets of mums and dads this Yule these smaller shops are most certainly amongst the best place to make the call on what’s set to be hot.  They asked over 900 retailers to compile these results and Toy Shop UK founder Michael Hawkins told us: ” Our impartiality guarantees that we publish a list that is as honest and transparent as you can realistically get. If anyone’s qualified to comment on great toys, it’s independent retailers. They are the ones on the sharpest end of the toy industry – and we have always taken great pride in championing them whenever and wherever we can.” Michael goes on to explain: “The thing I love most about our awards is that – through no planning or influence – the winners lists tends to be full of toys that have tons of play value, are realistically priced and possess an underlying educational or creative slant.” – So without further ado, here are the Gold medal winners, head over HERE for the best of the rest.

 

The 2012 Independent Toy Award Gold Winners are

BABY – First Steps Baby Walker

COLLECTABLE – Trash Pack Street Sweeper

CREATIVE – Ark DIY Triqo

CONSTRUCTION – HEXBUG Nano Hive Habitat Set

DOLLS – Baby Stella

ECO – Multi Fun Flower Bead Fun

EDUCATIONAL – Bananagrams

ELECTRONIC – VTech InnoTab 2

GAME – Rory’s Story Cubes: Voyages

LICENSED – Mike The Knight Deluxe Glendragon Castle

OUTDOOR – Union Jack Kurve Balance Bike (Kiddimoto)

VEHICLES – Corgi Construction Playset
ROLE PLAY – Uptown Espresso Kitchen
SOFT – Soft Play Food (Haba)
WOODEN – Figure of Eight Train Set (Bigjigs)

 

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