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 ...
This is the bigger of the Lego Heroica games and the one which I enjoyed the most as it takes more time to build and I enjoy building the games just like lego.The aim of the game is to get the Goblin King and to get keys to open the doors. When you land on potions you are able to gain speed and luck and you can also roll another turn for strength to defeat. There seemed to be more choice of different outcomes with this game. It takes around 15 minutes to build but I found I am getting faster at building the Heroica games now but would prefer it if the instructions were more pictures rather than having to read all the instructions. This is by far my favourite of the Lego Heroica games and there are more weapons than the other games.
This is the biggest Lego Heroica land that there is and the biggest lego game that I have ever played. It takes a long time to build, so this is definitely not a game to start if you only want to play for a short while. The build took me about 1 hour to do from start to finish, but it is well worth the wait. The game follows the same format as Draida and Waldurk, but the extra size means that it is much easier to customise and change the layout to make the game harder or easier. The game has more characters and you can play with 4 people making it much better than the smaller games. I like the part of the game where you can play one the monsters side in Battle Heroica. This is good because you can control all the monsters in the world and the aim of the game is to kill the Heroes and stop them reaching the end of the game. I give this game 9 out of 10, it loses a point for being more complicated to build which may make it difficult for younger players to play
I was very excited to see a parcel for me as been waiting for the next game, the box was a large square box Fortaan is the game, first impressions was it’s a lot bigger than the other sets , more pieces and lots of detail gates, doors , locks, keys flags and more men making the game more challenging to play, I quickly started to put it together which I found harder as different pieces for the one board were all in different bags, so I had open all of the bags up to start with, Once open I put all the pieces in the box and started to build it, the instructions were easy to understand and I just copied the pictures in the booklet. It took me about 15/20 minutes to build ready, I enjoyed building the game up , it looks really cool and couldn’t wait to play it.
I really enjoyed playing with my new heroica sets as it made a big really cool game-with lots more ways to play. there were lots of evil guys and spiders to try and beat and lots of different ways to go now the games are joined together. the instructions were easy to follow and it took about 10 mins to build all the games and join them together. i give lego heroica 10 out 10 again again!!
I much prefer this to DRAIDA because it is a much larger game and you can make more changes to the gameplay to make it last longer. The game does take a lot longer to build because it has double the amount of pieces that DRAIDA has. I would recommend this game mainly for boys, but everyone would enjoy playing it.My favourite character is the dark druid because he has a cool uniform and awesome strength – the heroes always take a long time to kill him. The game is much better when you combine two LEGO HEROICA lands together, I have played with DRAIDA and WALDURK and it makes an awesome board with different monsters and terrain to cross. The game can be changed to either simply combine the two lands or you can mix the lands up to make a unique board game each time you play. This is the best ever game, BRILLIANT.
Heroica is a good board game in which you have to defeat goblins, collect keys and buy weapons to win the game. Although it consists of many pieces, it is an outstanding game.It is as much fun building the actual game as playing it! To make it better,I would maybe change the weapon price from 3 gold down to 2 gold as on the easy board there are only 3 golds. Apart from this one point, the game couldn’t be better and therefore I am rating Heroica 9/10! and i can’t wait to get the other add on games!
This was the first time I have ever had a Lego game.
The game Draida was easier to build than Waldurk as it never had as many peices making it a good first game to play, it doesn’t have as many monsters
Waldurk was quite hard to build at first but I got the hang of it quickly and the pictures showed me what to do easily were really easy to understand
Waldurk was more pieces and new things like spiders, magic doors and more monsters in the set.
I also like the way in Waldurk you can get gold and buy weapons to help you.
It is good as it doesn’t take long to play once built and you can make your own game up by making a different paths I think that was really good as it can be different and you’ll not get bored
I really enjoyed this type of game as it is different and i liked building it, I liked playing it and cant wait to add and more and make a bigger game out of it to play with my brothers and my friends.













