We're unlikely to see the veritable amount of tat that surrounded the Royal wedding last year, we're hoping that celebratory and commemorative kit will all attempt to be as classy as this chess set (over optimistic perhaps). Each piece is handpainted, it truly is a glorious piece of kit that's certain to find favour with those who refer to parts of their abodes with terms such as East and West wing. It'll set you back almost £300 HERE for those interested parties.
We've been treated to a fair few Scalextric licences over the years, James bond ones were pretty good, Toy Story didn;t float our slot-car racing boat, this pair of beauties has us grinning from ear to ear. Why we've had to wait for so long to get Star Wars and Scalexctric to tema up Darth only knows, and frankly we don;t give a Yoda because it's finally happening - Exactly when we're no sure. So, we have the Micro 1:64 scale Death Star Attack set with a Lord Vader Tie Fighter battling a Luke Skywalker X-Wing, the spaceships have working ...
It took us a while getting around to building our LEGO Technic Bucket Truck, that’s cherry picker to most of us or elevated platform to those perhaps allergic to cherries or very posh indeed. It’s the machine used to rig up local Christmas lights or fix street lights, very clever vehicles they are too. Just like its real life ride this Bucket Truck has a set of gears to raise and rotate the platform on the back, two more gears let you deploy the outriggers at the side of the vehicle to keep it stable when the platform is fully ...
In our scramble to put as many crossover category toys to the test this year (think Skylanders, Wappydog, Angry Bird plush etc) we'd somehow almost missed this plumber based box of racing good ness. The Mario Kart Battle pack features a Mario and Yoshi sat in their rides and an assortment of track accessories for you to establish where your hairpins and chicances should be placed. whilst you race the lights on the nift RC unit have lights which each represent an action you'd find on the console version, Mushroom: Gives a speed boost Green Shell: Sends your opponent hurtling backwards Lightning: Sends ...
The upper class fox was at his very best in the eighties, close to the cuff humour for kids TV, often ridiculing his guests and co-hosts, quality Telly. Now you can own your own Basil Brush handpuppet, give him a squeeze and he'll let out his grin inducing laugh topped off with a legendary "Boom Boom" at the end. At just £12.99 seems like a no-brainer.
We’ve not too much info on it, well whats to talk about really, several shades of Silver cover the surfaces, completing this one should be a challenge after the brilliant bright colours of the original. For us, this one screams paper weight, sure its all silvery and perhaps even trying to shed its geek image and become, erm, sexy? Make your own minds up, Rubik’s Ikon is £12.99 from John Adams.
We have seen a few 3D puzzlesover the past months, these new ones from Wrebbit (we’ll get to the bottom of that name creation soon) are these landmark builds, each one a 750 piece plus affair, not easy by any means but deeply satisfying when finished. From the Taj Mahal to Big Ben there’s a few to choose from and are about the biggest in their class, and priced between £20-£40 when launched in June over at Amazon.
Fans of the tear jerking blockbuster by Spielberg are in for a treat as the lead horse Joey has been unbridled at Toy Fair today. Select from the Classic Series range at 1:12 scale for around £40 or the Traditional Series range at 1:9 scale (limited run of 3,500) for about £50. Each Breyer “Joey” model is hand-decorated and packed alongside a copy of the now famous book by Michael Morpurgo
To Tweet or not to Tweet that was once the question, well early last year it was largely being just mused over by many in the toy industry, gladly however today most toy firms are in the 140 character club with some even setting up accounts for individual products – Toy town is most certainly on the Twittersphere. We’ve been doing it for years, and today, we only went and got ourselves an award for doing it, yes, Toyshopuk, the finest toy based establishment on the interweb gave us the Best Industry Commentator award, we blushed at first but now we’re beaming. Join us in our quest to make toyland as interesting as we can in 140 chatracters or less HERE
The smash Apple iOS and Android Fruit ninjas comes to life with this fab bit of fruit lopping fun. The real life version of the game see’s you take hold of one mini ninja sword and attack the 20 pieces of plastic fruit. Pick up a mission card and select your target fruit then get chopping. This is definitely the year of the “appcessorie” and this is definitely the place to discover the latest on release. London Toy Fair press releases so far have us a list of almost 20 to share with you next week. If you’re a fan of the app, but not so much this game then perhaps a real life Fruitg Ninja plush is for you, complete with squelchy sound FX. BUY!
Exciting times ahead for Team Toyology, we’re off to the fine city of Nuremberg in a couple of weeks to make a documentary about the place and how it transforms during Toy Fair week. If you’re over there and fancy a catch-up with us or indeed any UK toy companies then check out this new website from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) who are working closely with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce at the show. This new initiative will help visitors organise your time at this incredible event and lets you make appointments with UKTI supported exhibitors. Check it out – www.spielwarenmesse.ukti.gov.uk.
One of the new Playmobil lines this year is that of Stone Age, and you know that their always going to deliver a cracking set, this lot though has exeeded even our lofty expectations. The Stoneage “Big Cave with Mammoth” set features the fantastic cave with a hiding place for the family of four in case the Mammoth should get a bit brave or the wolf decide to pay a visit. We’re really keen on this prehistoric stuff from Playmobil as it doesn’t realy on the tried and tested, and almost guaranteed success that the inclusion of dinosaurs would bring. Overall what excites us most is watching kids try to roleplay with these Stoneage sets, tere’s no real precedent for them to follow from TV, unless you’ve tried them on something very retro, and unbearable to watch from the 60′s. Check out the Playmobil range HERE
We’re unlikely to see the veritable amount of tat that surrounded the Royal wedding last year, we’re hoping that celebratory and commemorative kit will all attempt to be as classy as this chess set (over optimistic perhaps). Each piece is handpainted, it truly is a glorious piece of kit that’s certain to find favour with those who refer to parts of their abodes with terms such as East and West wing. It’ll set you back almost £300 HERE for those interested parties.
Marshmallow fun was once limited to the game of stuffing them into one’s mouth and trying to make others in your team comprehend the words you uttered – Or was that just us? Well, no longer is it the only non-eating based fun to be had with the king off confectionary, the Marshmallow blaster lets you load one of the (full sized)mtreats inside, pump up the gun and sent yours soaring to a grateful recipient up to 40 ye FORTY feet away. The evolution of marshmallow based projectile technology continues apace, we’ve discovered the Bow and Mallow, this one with a magazine style storage unit that feeds up to 25 mini-marshmallows into the firing chamber for launches of up to 30 feet, and, in more medieval marshmallow news, here’s the marshmallow crossbow, it also fires mini marshmallows, again at up to 30 feet but the double magazine lets you fire off 25 from each magazine – marauding marshmallow enemies do not stand a chance. Have a butchers at Maps Toys they’ve some other interesting lines too
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