Great story in the Telegraph today about the "Pinkification" of Toys and how two parents have set up a campaign to boycott ELC for their over concentration of pink stuff for girls, finding pink cash tills, washing machines and globes particularly offensive.. Do girls not like pink? Do these girls not like pink? Are they right to be making such a fuss? Should we put aput a blanket ban on the colour pink? Do let us know your thoughts.
keeping one amused
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.
Star Wars slot sets – At last
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 ...
Cherry picker is a sweet build
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 ...
Off-screen action with Mario
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 ...
Remember the posh Fox?
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.
On November 29, 2009, In Uncategorized, by peter jenkinson
LEGO sorting box is up there with sliced bread…why didn't we think of that?
cheers gizmodo.com
On November 27, 2009, In Adults in mind, Boys Toys, Electronics, Figures and Dolls, RC's and Robots, by peter jenkinson
At just over 3cm the Robo-Q is the worlds smallest Robot, don't think for one moment that his trick list match his Lilliputian dimensions, you'd be very wrong. These tiny chaps are packed with technology, first off there's the two autonomous modes so you can set your Robo-Q off around an obstacle course where he'll avoid objects or takes himself off to seek out something solid so you can stick a ball in front of him and enjoy some mechanised dribbling. The handheld RC unit, which also doubles as the charging station, lets you take them for a walk choosing from three walking speeds at the flick of your finger – Futuristic thimble sized fun at £19.95 HERE
On November 27, 2009, In Adults in mind, by peter jenkinson
Pull out the ripcord on this bendy limbed STIG doll and he'l let out one of five sayings, well it'll be Clarksons dulcet tones but Top Gear fans know what we mean. There is a sixth phrase disguised as morse code,so that'll be fun for you to look up on Xmas day. £13.99 at PLAY.com
On November 27, 2009, In Adults in mind, by peter jenkinson
On November 27, 2009, In Adults in mind, by peter jenkinson
Linking up with a leading psychologist Worlds Apart have created an online calculator to assist in the purchase of presents this Yule. It's all based upon the toys overall play value with the formula based on factors including cost, the amount of time a child is
expected to spend with it and whether it encourages skills such as
creativity and social interaction. Of 5,000 parents surveyed 65% said thir kids received a toy they never played with, head over to Toybuyornot and give it a go.
Here's one way to cut the cost of Xmas, enter
one of our comps and bag yourself some Xams booty for free. We have
two mind-bending prize packages to giveaway, each one contains three
great Rubik’s products. There's the original finger-twisting
favourite Rubik’s Cube, there's a light-flashing, button-bashing
REVO Cube and we're even throwing in a Rubik’s 360 –
a sensational toy.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these
two Rubik's goodies bags just tell us where Professor Erno Rubik, the
inventor of the infuriating cube, comes from?
A) Hungary
B) Hertfordshire
C) Honduras
email us on comps(AT)toyology.co.uk by noon on
the 5th
December and we'll let two lucky winners have their gifts well ahead
of Xmas – Good Luck.
On November 25, 2009, In Adults in mind, Boys Toys, Electronics, Family fun, Get Involved, by peter jenkinson
Everything except the smell of gunpowder is set to be unleashed in your living room, the electronic display that'll have visitors oohing and ahhing with almost the same levels of childish delight as they would outdoors braving the elements and dodgy half cooked sausages. A far cry, thankfully, from those limp indoor "barely giving off a flicker" fireworks we've been fobbed off with for years, this box of tricks will give a New Years eve celebratory level effect each time it's switched on, if Guy Fawkes were around this is the ambient light him and his posse would Xbox with. The SEGA has six lenses, speakers inside and has nine interchangeable discs for you to select your whow from, hook up extra speakers and you've a display that Broris can only have wet dream about for his 2012 opening ceremony. £129.95 for yours at FIREBOX
Open auditions will be taking place in Manchester to find a LEGO fanatic who can turn their hobby into hard cash. The job will involve developing new features at the centre as well as maintaining existing ones, upon arrival at the open audtiions there'll be millions of bricks and applicants will first have to make an animal in 15 minutes. Get past stage one then you're next challenge is creating a famous face from the collection of bricks, if reckon you're up to to the challenge email register@legolanddiscoverycentre.com
On November 23, 2009, In Adults in mind, Boys Toys, Family fun, Get Involved, Outdoor Escapades, by peter jenkinson
Not content with an hour a week of James May and his Toy based shennanigans then perhaps you'd like to purchasetickets and meet the man himself as he hosts his very own Toy Fair. On offer, for the moderate sum of £20 (which includes a signed copy of his book) is a show of some fabulous LEGO models, the chance to ask the man a few questions, race against him on a Scalextric track, enter a Meccano building comp, make your own Airfix model and even mould a Morph. We wanted more feature based stuff on toys on TV and have a "careful what you wish for" feeling now that the prospect of a James May action figure becomes closer to reality. Still, £20, not bad for a day out – HERE
