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UK Rubik King keeps his crown

 

 

Congratulations once more to Mr Breandan Vallance after he kept his UK title this weekend, completing the standard 3x3x3 brain frustrator in an average time of 9.48 secondsIn addition to beating over 70 other human cubers he had the Cubestormer II robot piling on the pressure. The robot, not of course officially allowed to take part, managed the cube in 6.03 seconds. A few first timers are still sat down in Bristol still figuring it out and will be asked to leave the premises by the end of the week.

 

Free LEGO with every Currant Bun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting tomorrow, right across the UK,  The Sun are giving away free LEGO toys for an entire week and the last part includes a LEGO magazine, this is a good week for lovers of the Danish brick. Okay, so you have to cut out a voucher and get down to your local Toys R US or WHSmiths,  and it’ll be on a first come first served basis, but what a great opportunity to get your day started a tad earlier. Here’s is the week ahead :

Saturday 8th October: Star Wars: Star Destroyer
Monday 10th October: Harry Potter: The Lab
Tuesday 11th October: City: Blue Truck
Wednesday 12th October: Alien Quest: ADU Jetpack
Thursday 13th October: Cars 2: Gremlin
Friday 14th October: Ninjago: Ninja Training
Saturday 15th October: Harry Potter: Trolley

Throughout the giveaway The Sun are running a Golden Brick comp where you could win prizes ranging from a Florida trip, Ten Grands worth of Gold and a load of LEGO sets.

 

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Skylanders launch party anyone?

Opening up the working week with a competition is the way we like it, and we have a fantastic opportunity for you to attend the exclusive launch party of the amazing new console game Skylanders. We’ve got TWO VIP ticket packages for the Skylanders Magical Morning at Hamleys toy store, London on Sunday 09th October!  The lucky winners will be invited to attend the Skylanders launch event party where they will be treated to a yummy buffet breakfast, enjoy a host of Skylanders themed magical activities, meet some very special guests, and be one of the first in the UK to play Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure before it hits the shops, all whilst having the finest toy store in the world to themselves!  To top it off, you’ll be gifted with an exclusive goody bag containing a Skylanders t-shirt, Skylanders poster, a magazine and sweets.  Just tell us the name of the main character in Skylanders? comps{at}toyology.co.uk – Best of luck and remember Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure launches on Friday October 14th! – Keep reading for boring terms and conditions.

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We’ve mused over doing “something funny for money” and raising cash for Comic Relief for months now, unable to think of anything that inspired us enough to organise an event however we thought the game was up and we’d just have to make a donation. Inspired by a find earlier this week in the form of Private Plastic we thought a character race of some kind might be in order, but where? on what? and who would join us? A few phone calls later and the race is on – Brands Hatch are lending us their track, Razor scooters are being provided and the riders include Honey Monster, Katsuma, Ken, Barbie, Bananaman, Morph, Captain America and The Hulk so far. We have a couple of big names vying for the remaining four places and shall be making our selections this weekend. In the words of Sir Bob, well someof them at least “give us some of yer money” on our donations page. If you fancy popping down to see the action read on for more details, we’ll be posting the film we’re making right here next week so you can enjoy all the action.

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A Quarter million and counting

A massive shout out to all our readers, guests, friends, visitors, retweeters,facebook likers and anyone else we haven’t mentioned. This is our Oscar speech homage, as today we have something equally as exciting as picking up a shrunken golden man statue to celebrate. The month of February saw us bust through the 1/4 million visitor barrier, laying down a big challenge for the month of March that has us chomping at the bit. Head over to our Facebook Page and “like us” for the chance to win one of many prizes up for grabs today. Monopoly Revolution, LIV Dolls, Mighty Beanz Slam Track, Tonka, LEGO and other fabulous stuff. Everything worth at least £25 and we’ve TEN prizes up for grabs so get liking” now. That’s one winner on the hour every hour until 8pm tonight.

 
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The Toy Retailers Association, representing about 75% of the UK toy shops unveiled it’s selection of the dozen toys it thinks will dominate this Christmas – Without further ado, here are where the anticipated empty shelf areas are to be found this Yule :

City Airport, Lego UK
Fireman Sam Deluxe Fire Station Playset, Character Options
FurReal Go Go Walking Pup, Hasbro
Jet Pack Buzz Lightyear, Mattel UK
Kidizoom VideoCam, VTech
Monopoly Revolution, Hasbro
Moon Dough Barn, Spinmaster Toys UK
Nerf N Strike Stampede ECS, Hasbro
Paper Jamz Guitar, Wow Wee Europe
‘Pumpaloons’ – action game, Drumond Park
Sylvanian Families Motorcycle and Sidecar, Flair Leisure
ZhuZhu Grooming Salon, Character Options

Gary Grant, chairman of the TRA’s Dream Toys Selection Panel, commented: “This year, the toy industry has combined innovation and creativity to respond to the ever-changing demands of children. The technological advancements used in many of the toys we reviewed this year were simply amazing, and demonstrate how forward thinking manufacturers are. Pete the Geek from Toyology.TV commented “fabulous line up here, not sure how Pumpaloons made the list though” adding “We’ve a video of the event going live later today at toyology.tv go take a look”

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We mentioned our new arrival last week – but just to jog your memory…

We’re now the proud older sibling of our beautiful baby sister site Toyology.tv

Weighing in at a healthy 720 mega pixels (no idea!) with a lovely RSS News Feed and a Twitter account, she can’t read and write yet, but she has some brilliant videos…go say congratulations at www.toyology.tv

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Here at Toyology Towers we’ve been planning a revolution for the past few months, today, we’re proud to tell you all that the first Episode of  Toyology.TV is live – The only .tv station in the world that gives you the low down on the latest toys, the next big crazes for the playground and the kit that’ll fly off the shelves fastest. Presenter Jamie Rickers and Pete the Geek will be bringing you the first couple of episodes together with a crack team of junior toyologists to put playthings through their paces. A new episode each week there’ll be extra elements added to the show like Desperate Mousewives, Big Bruiser, OUCH and the occassional guest presenter. Head off to Toyology.TV and tell us what you think.

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Bigtrak winners

Cheers for your competition submissions as we searched for an acronym breakdown of BIGTRAK, here are the three winners, your vehicles are on the way :

B – Best                                               B – Belting                                    B – Binary
I – Invention                                       I – Innovation                               I – Integrated
G- Gran                                                G – Grand                                     G – Galactic
T – toyed                                             T – Transporter                            T – Travelling
R – Regarding                                     R – Rather                                    R – Robot
A – acquiring (for me)                       A – Annoyed                                A – Advanced
K – kost too much (?)                       K – Karry trailer isn’t back            K – Kinetics

Chris the Build                                    Miss Moffat                               Fire Guy 999



 
 

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