Hunger Games has legions taking up Archery
Heroine Katniss sports a bow and arrow, and does plenty of damage with her accuracy in the UK release of the blockbuster Hunger Games today. Since opening in the US kids (of all ages) have been signing up for lessons at Archery clubs, that's far too faddy for us, just pick up the finest toy bow/arrow kit around in the shape of the fine Z-Curve launcher and have yourself some grin inducing fun. A couple of round-nosed projectiles that easily reach 80 feet and a sucker dart that'll pretty much latch on to any flat surface (foreheads not included), we ...
Helium shortage is no laughing matter
We are, according to the Guardian, running low on Helium and one scientist in particular is putting the blame squarely on the party balloon industry and, that'll now include our favourite flyers the Air Swimmers. Pressure on stocks aren't likely to let up anytime soon from our end, we're eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Bass and Whale version of these surreal R/C's - Air Swimmers are the only brand that'll not have you trying to cancel your credit card transaction. Here's an Angry Bird version too (pictured) selling only in the US righ now, looking forward to a video ...
ARCHOS steps in to Kids Tablet market
ARCHOS have shown their hand in the Tablet market for kids this morning wading in with this, the Child Pad. It joins the MEEP and Kurio although it could well steal a lead as it is launching at the end of March, the others have a TBC date and late September. In the looks department all seems perfectly acceptable, it 'll run on the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software has 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM - And it'll be just £99. Kids friendly features include access to the Kids App Store powered by AppsLib which is filtered down to ...
Angry Birds getting Flash
Yup, the licensing wagon rolls out once more for the Angry Birds mob and this time we're treated to a quadruplet of the crew, red bird, yellow bird, king piggy and white bird as USB flash drives. They're each able to carry around 4GB of your precious data and we think hat wanting to fling them into a structure of Jenga bricks or LEGO will be overwhelming, so buy one (or more) and get on with it. £14.99 a piece from FIREBOX
Angry Birds evolution continues, moves outdoors…
When Mattel took on the board game last year it was met with shrieks of delight from bird lobbing fans, within just a couple of months version two was amongst us, we eagerly await the next installment. From iPod docks, PC speakers, noise producing plushes and a raft of other beak based accessories nothing new or very exciting to see here, it is with unbridled enthuisiasm that we bring you Angry Birds, The Outdoor Action game from Tactic. From May and for about £25 you get the main game, that's a playmat, blocks, pair of Angry Birds, a pig and ...
Jubilee must-have
Lets face it, until just now you'd never realised how much you wanted a solar powered waving minature figure of Her Maj, did you? Pick yours from either pink or blue or buy both - Head THIS way for your purchase and to pick up some interesting facts about this great lady, our favourite is that she has opened 15 bridges in the UK!
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 ...
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”
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
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.
They’re ba-accck
We loved the first set of Lego Minifigures – it was ludicriously exciting to have the opportunity to own individual miniature men (even if we did end up with what was quite literally an ARMY of archers in our quest to collect them all). But life just got even more exciting. The second batch are here. And they’re actually more impressive than the first…
With a surfer, a mexican, a witch and a mime artist all residents of this second posse which is launched on September 1st – the collectability-factor of these guys just sky rocketed (as if it wasn’t high enough already).
After Series 1 arrived in our lives back in May – so long ago already? – stores sold out as they leaped to number 1 in the toy charts and became the summer must-have. We like to imagine there were actual fights between grown men and young children for the little fella’s..
Still modestly priced at just £1.99, pick your favourite NOW and make sure you’re ready when September comes (at leas the kids will be back at shool soon so we’ll have a better chance at getting there first..)
In an outrageous oversight, well mostly due to us moving office and packing up our vast toy collection never made it over to the annual Amazon Xmas in July fest yesterday. The fine folk at Pocket-lint.com did however and have a fabulous look at Amazon’s top toy tips this Yule. We don our fedoras to your coverage. Check it out HERE.
Today we launch the search for six junior Toyologists to join us for some toy testing fun these Summer holidays. Each week, for six weeks, in association with ASDA, we’ll be sending six selected candidates, a brand new toy to play with and report back to us on…then, just for that, you get to keep the lot. Teh competition is open to anyone in the UK just click HERE for the entry form and we’ll select the bst haf dozen entries to offer them a fantastic opportunity for the Summer.
The popularity of Silly Bandz in the States can be explained by the fact they’re just such a head-splappingly simple idea. These silicone shapes are collected by kids and can be used as a cheap and cheerful fashion accessory or to add another dimension to the stationery cupboards of corporates nationwide. Available as Zoo, Sea, Princess, Western and Pet sets, each pack contains 24 shapes. Silly Bandz have almost 300k people in their Facebook “band” and are set to take this country by storm. £3.99 gets you a packfrom firebox.com – to further reinforce their street cred some schools have even banned them.
What is it about hamsters? Hot on the heels of the ridiculously successful Go Go Hamster is this year’s must have – Chatimals.
We were taken back to the days of the ol’ Furby at first glance when we got this little chap in the office but in actual fact he’s far less compliant than the strange Eewok type things – actually he’s downright rude!
The idea of the Chatimal is that he mimics you; squeeze his paw, impart your pearls of wisdom and hear it back – then spend the next few days wondering if you actually sound like that… (although once he went into Darth Vader mode we were pretty convinced he has some artistic license on your voice).
There are three of the addictive critters to collect, so if you’re really clever about it you can get them all having a conversation together, discussing how brilliant you are. Get yours here for just £20
