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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 lights and the track has a glow-in-the-dark print for late night missions. Then, well this is the one that’ll have pre-order buttons ablaze when we find out when/where/how much, the 1:32 scale Battle of Endor, a 4.3 metre track with woodland features and accessories and Luke Skywalker and Scout Trooper aboard a pair of Speed Bike There is also the promise of more sets and solo vehicles to add to your Star Wars track, Like this all very much we do.

 

 

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 extended; and a large gear knob on the rear even lets you steer it. With all of these functions in mind, and of course the nifty looking design, this rig is as much fun to build as it is to assemble and so we pay homage with our 10th, and final Toyology Gold of the year. Around £40 at John Lewis


 

 

 

LEGO lines up new girls range

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV adverts start running this Boxing Day for the new LEGO line up aimed at girls 5-8 and represents the first solely focused girls line for the company in a decade. The LEGO Friends range, which includes five mini-figure dolls will star in a mini-movie in the New Year, to coincide with a second wave of Lego Friends. Living in a newly created environment called Heartlake City’ there’ll by accessories, brightly coloured building bricks and animals to role play in this new place and sets such as a tree house, beauty salon and veterinary clinic are coming soon. Plenty planned for the range, they’ve even added six brand new brick colours to make Heartlake City a bit different from anywhere else in LEGO land to date.

 

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Deck the walls

 

 

Just in time to stick on your Santa list, all new Mario gaming decals, 24 supersized stickers for your wall. Time to dig out a comedy moustache, boiler suit, appropriate headwear and start sticking a classic scene from on-screen or somehting altogether more random, it don’t matter because to can re-use/re-stick them as much as you want – There’s little work getting done for a while today me thinks. Not cheap at £59.99 But a better decal set we challenge you to find (doesn’t stick so good on flock wallpaper).

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There can be little worse than the dissatisfaction associated with pulling a sub-standard Xmas cracker. Most of the time the banging bit has to be pulled seperately as it slipped out of your cheap crepe paper number during the tug-of-war process and then, whoever is victorious, wishes they weren’t – spyglass, plastic charms, dic good-for-nothing apart from top prize at a choking hazard competition. Now this selection is different altogether, “now this collection is…..” no stop that. From the Jumbo 4-in-1 cracker featuring classic Hasbro games and six legally required hats it’ll need those lower branches if you put it on the tree, then there are the single game crackers including Scrabble,Twister, Cluedo and Monopoly which each contain surprises (and of course hats) and when all are opened you can play variants on the original classic board games. All of them are available this way – Happy cracking and good luck with the Twister version if you play post xmas-lunch!

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Thundercats Hooooo!  Bandai are holding their first Thundercats Father & Son Clubs this weekend as the new toy lines hit the shelves, they’re running them at selected Smyths Toys Superstores tomorrow, Saturday 3rd December.  Drop in and check out the new range of Thundercats toys and join in the activities including getting the tools to make your very own Sword of Omens and of course a few comps to enter for a chance to win the neww toy range! Stores on-board where you can just turn up are Smyths Toys Superstores in Chadwell Heath Essex, Bury and Telford. All you have to do is repeat this chant when you arrive for free entry -)

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No this is not the latest sighting of a fifties style UFO but a hotel in Sweden, yours for about £420 a night with breakfast – Certainly close to the top of our places to visit in 2012, and to get us all interested in alien life forms, unidentified spacecraft and the whole abduction deal we’re browsing the Alien Conquest sets from LEGO. There are a few in the range of various sizes, great detail on all, a huge Mothership had us hovering over the buy button but we’re drawn to the UFO Abduction model, 211 pieces, three minifigures and an LED light that shines down as the tractor beam to capture the farmhand. A rubberised trap door underneath the craft allows you to land on the hapless countryboy and, as the push down, he is taken inside the craft for experimentation, or whatever it is they do. Grab one HERE

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To celebrate the launch of Cars2 on DVD (and Blu-Ray of course) the folk at Disney/Pixar commissioned this rather impressive Lightning McQueen be built – from thousands of Cars 2 toy cars. We’ve a waffle load of stats of great interest to some and little to others so read on and feed your inner geek.

 

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New Trio for Skylanders arrive

 

 

 

 

 

It’s only been out a month and already we’re being treated to a taste of how marvellously modular and addictively collectable and life-taking-over this crossover console game is going to be. The arrival of three new characters has us more excited than we should be – Hex adds to the female roster and is from the undead elemental class, a Wall of Bones upgrade keeps her safe when baddies come after her. Dino-rang, the funny looking green chap from the earth elemental class, hurls boomerangs at his enemies, it starts as stone but can quickly turn into volcanic glass when upgraded. And the third, Wrecking Ball, a hungry blue party animal from the magic elemental class who takes down villains by using his tongue, this with his Power Belch, makes him formidable, and funny.

 

 

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Not all of our suggestions made the final edit in this weeks Sunday Mirror, but we’re mighty delighted with the ones that did – A fine combination for all the family we thinks? Thoughts?

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