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 ...
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 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 ...
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
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 ...
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!
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 ...
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.
We’re pretty sure that about ten years ago there was something on the market like this.. BUT for the life of us we can’t remember what that was, what it was called or even if we’ve just plain made that up so, without further ado, introducing you to the world of 3-d puzzling – because, sometimes, two dimensions just aren’t enough.
Whilst tourists annoy commuters by randomly stopping in the middle of the pavement to take a picture of a door or similar, and spend hundreds upon hundreds on touring the capital, the shrewd and thrifty among you can get all the culture you need from these puzzling masterpieces in the comfort of your own home. Ok, not quite. But you can build Tower Bridge, Big Ben and, randomly, the Eiffel Tower and that’s quite enough to be getting on with for now isn’t it? From just £7.99 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.
If you shift your gaze slightly to the left you’ll see this box full of retro toys, click it and you’ll be taken to a 30 second survey page all about your memories of those marvellous toys from yesteryear. In return for your time Firebox will give you a £5 voucher, that’s it, no strings…£5 to fill in a fun survey, as Alexander might say “simples”.
The gauntlet has been set.
The chaps at Firebox have sent us this piggy bank puzzle – which is great for the nostalgia of piggy banks but something tell us this little porcelain wonder is harder than it looks, even if it does bat it’s eyelashes at you.
We’ll keep you updated…
Who’d have ever thought, thirty years ago, we’d still be driving ourselves mad trying to solve these things?
Not that it can’t be done of course, it can – the current speedcubing record is held by Scottish teenager Breandan Vallance at a rather impressive 10.74 seconds – it’s just that for the rest of us joe public type of people, the only thing we can do with a Rubik’s cube in 10.74 seconds is get angry and throw it at the wall.
And yet 30 years on 350 million have been sold worldwide, there are records for solving it one handed, blindfolded, with just your feet and whilst skydiving, there are medical conditions named after it (Cubists thumbs anyone?), it’s even been responsible for a divorce or two apparently. Nevertheless Happy 30th Birthday to Mr Rubik and his godforsaken cube, have a drink on us!
Still, with 43 squintillion different combinations (yes, that’s a real number apparently) and only one answer you can’t help but feel that the odds really are stacked against you…
The TRA represents over 75% of the Uk Toy Industry and has a decent idea whats going to be flying off the shelves at any given season. Its Xmas picks for 209 comprise amixed bacg of stuff that all steps in at under £50, most we agree with, a couple we're at a loss to explain :
Bakugan Battle Pack, Spin Master (£19.99)
Battle Strikers starter Set, Mega Brands (£9.99)
Ben 10 Alien Force Kevins DX Action Cruiser, Bandai (£29.99)
Bendaroos Mega Pack, Spin Master ( £19.99)
GO GO Pets Hamsters, Character Options (£9.99)
GX Racers Tightrope Terror, Flair (£22.99)
Kidizoom Multimedia Digital Camera, V-Tech (£49.99)
Lego Games Minotaurus, Lego (£17.99)
Monopoly City, Hasbro (£24.99)
Princess Peppa’s Palace, Character Options (£39.99)
'Train
your brain' we're ordered as adverts featuring folk of all creeds
tapping away on Nintendo DS's flit across our TV screens. Train your
brain with endless puzzles now or wait for it to turn to warm, soupy
mush before your very eyes, they warn. However prudent this may seem,
avid toy lovers could be forgiven for wondering whatever happened to
good old fashioned, Rubiks Cubey, vastly frustrating puzzles
involving twisting things and fitting stuff together and angrily
forcing bits of plastic into the wrong holes when no one was
looking?
You may well know your Sweden from Spain in shape form, and have a fair idea of where they fit into the continent, Ukraine and Belarus however might prove a little more tricky! Grab yourself a 58 piece jigsaw from Geopuzzle with pieces the shape of the countries and you'll excel at this subject in pub quizzes. A great learning tool thats fun for kids too. £10.99 at Amazon
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