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 ...
After epic flight delays, a bad nights sleep in a hotel near the racous Nurenberg red light district and way too much meat for breakfast we’re finally at the Toy Fair. At least ten times bigger than Olympia with a hall entirely dedicated to costumes, we’re camped in the UK pavillion with our pictured banner on display and chatting to fellow journalists from South Africa and Israel about our favourite finds. There’s stuff a plenty to tell y’all about, our five will be up later today.
We’ve teamed up with the Daily Mirror to launch the inagural Golden Reindeer Awards, it’s an award presented to the most outstanding grotto in the UK that offers an exceptional Christmas experience. As well as seeing your grotto receive this prestigious award all the votes for the winning grotto will be put into some sort of hat and the one that pops out first will win £1000 CASH plus £1000 of toys from Hasbro, Spinmaster and LEGO…..head over to toyology.tv and click the Golden Reindeer link to nominate yours. Alternatively click on our Facebook link and select one from the condentors already in the running.
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.
With the next installment of Toy Story coming that merchandise is bounnd to fly of course, and a whole raft of other films are certain to have innovative licenced gear attached. That's all a bit too obvious of course, so too are the new kids TV programs so to other forecasts from our ball. Playmobil have a great new "Off to the beach" range due, LEGO launch the Atlantis range anda new addition to their board games range called Shave a Sheep. Football basedboard game Starplayer should fair well with the world cup in full swing mid summer as should the Zyclone Zing Ring Blaster. This is just a taste of whats coming up, it's certain to be one of the best years in toys to date and some real High Tech surprises we just can't mention yet too. We're itching to get started on 2010, for now we're off to crack open a couple of bottles and will be back on the 4th. Happy New Year Toy Fans.
Well what a year it has been, the range of toys we've had the pleasure of testing has been about the best yet, and still the classics like LEGO continue to bring smiles to our faces. In the face of a recession the UK toy market has been resilient and hard at work innovating for the year ahead. We're off to Vegas for a few days in the New Year to see the latest tech toys in action then its back to ready ourselves for the Toy Fair season starting with the UK one at Olympia. We're sending some of the Toyology Team to the Nuremberg fair, New York show and also Hong Kong so we'll have the very latest news from Toyland. We've a few changes for the site next year, well overdue some might say, and are also looking forward to Toyology.tv – So watch this space. Thanks to all our readers for visisting this year, with over 250,000 of you popping by its been our biggest year yet, so cheers. Have a wonderful Christmas and a memorable (if possible) New Year celebration and we'll catch you in 2010.
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