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 ...
Signing its third licencing deal with gaming firm Ubisoft (Gears of War and Sonic in the bag already) we’re now looking forward to Meccano creating a range that’ll include the Rabbids’ crazy toilet complete with flushing sound effects and pullback motor, a time travelling washing machine with motorised spin, a working catapult with splat mat target and surreal racing shopping trolley complete as well as a variety of figures. Come on, hurry up and get them on the shelves.
Wait not much longer, hurry up summer, you cannot arrive quickly enough for us. News has just arrived that the world’s first Angry Bird themed visitor attraction will open in Tampere, Finland within the unpronouncable Särkänniemi Adventure Park. It’ll be called AngryBirdLand and we’re promised an ‘interactive entertainment experience’ where ‘the physical and the virtual world combine’ – Did I hear you utter “oooooooh”. Aspiring, and doing rather well at becoming, a global brand, the theme park attraction is the latest piece in the portfolio. Harri Koponen, Executive VP of licensing and merchandising told us that Angry Birds Land will be “the first of several Angry Bird parks around the world” and the goal is “to motivate the fans, both adults and children, to exercise and enjoy the outdoors. Rovio will wotk with the park and BDR Design, an internationally-known amusement park entertainment design company to create the visitor attraction. “We wanted to create a unique themed area and associate it with a strong and well-known brand. The Angry Birds characters were born in Finland but are known worldwide by people of all ages. This is a perfect fit for our Adventure Park” says Miikka Seppälä, CEO of Särkänniemi Adventure Park. The park opens on 28th April, form an orderly queue please.
To Tweet or not to Tweet that was once the question, well early last year it was largely being just mused over by many in the toy industry, gladly however today most toy firms are in the 140 character club with some even setting up accounts for individual products – Toy town is most certainly on the Twittersphere. We’ve been doing it for years, and today, we only went and got ourselves an award for doing it, yes, Toyshopuk, the finest toy based establishment on the interweb gave us the Best Industry Commentator award, we blushed at first but now we’re beaming. Join us in our quest to make toyland as interesting as we can in 140 chatracters or less HERE
Would you confuse an Asus Prime Transformer laptop with Optimus Prime leader of the Autobots? One is a rather swish laptop that “transforms” into a tablet the other a Decepticon destroyer (play spot the difference above) – the legal bods at Hasbro do have concern, have probably noticed that inboxes in the department are a little sparse and so have challenged the Taiwanese computer giant demanding damages and an injunction on sales of the product until an agreement is reached between them both. Its not the Transformer term we think they have an issue with, nor the use of the word Prime, both appropriate descriptions of the clever computing hybrid, to use both in the products headline title would seem to be asking for a scrap though?
600,000 bricks, 172 branches, 1200 LEGO Baubles, stands 12.2 metres high. Go see it at St Pancras Station until the 4th January – Do NOT lean against it when you’re having your picture taken!
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.
Retailer Firebox.com aran a comp to win a whopping £3k worth of kit from their website this past few weeks and, today, they chipped up at the winners house and filled her front room to the rafters with must-have stuff. One thirty year old Lisa Gammon, from Minster, Kent, is the sole winner of the £3k competition of toys and gas and to name just a few to fuel your enviousness were a Ride in Dalek , Mario Kart Battle Pack, Old School Twister, Xploderz blasters, and a Parrot A.R. Drone. She’ll be sharing with her kids and donating some stuff to a local charity – Well done Lisa.
Its the news Transformers fans have been waiting for, no longer do you have to relive movie moments with your vast range of Hasbro toys Universal are set to open a theme park based on the film. The launch takes place on the 2nd December with Michael Bay in attendance, little detail is known so far apart from the inclusion of 12 breathtaking scenes and an immersive 3D experience to get right into the heart of a Decepticon/Autobot battle.
This week was the official Disney store Christmas launch, and us lucky so and so’s at Toyology were lucky enough to go along for a bit of celebrity spotting and to make some last amendments to our Christmas list.
Working with some 55 charities this year, including Great Ormond Street, those festive folks at Disney are going to be donating over 7,000 cuddly toys to children who would otherwise not be getting any pressies this year.
We went down to the flagship store on Oxford Street to join in the festive fun.
We drank: Prosecco, pomegranate cordial
We ate: risotta in parmesan crisps, turkey roulade on potato rosti
We made: a festive biscuit in the shape of a snowman (cleverly utilising a marshmallow as the hat might we add)
We saw: Peter Andre and family, Tamsin Outhwaite and Duchess of Kent (oo er!) amongst others
We liked: Everything! But we took home a wintery Minnie Mouse complete with ice skates.
Over the years she’s had plenty of professions, doctor, teacher, princess and pop star and now she’s lending her hand to the art of ink, yup, here she is Tattooing Barbie. Apparently there is some “outrage” in the States, she has pink hair and a tattoo, oh my! Who are these overtly wholesome folk who can’t see that this is a) a doll b) sign of the times c) rather good? – Check out the outrage this way
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