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 ...
It took us a while getting around to building our LEGO Technic Bucket Truck, that’s cherry picker to most of us or elevated platform to those perhaps allergic to cherries or very posh indeed. It’s the machine used to rig up local Christmas lights or fix street lights, very clever vehicles they are too. Just like its real life ride this Bucket Truck has a set of gears to raise and rotate the platform on the back, two more gears let you deploy the outriggers at the side of the vehicle to keep it stable when the platform is fully ...
In our scramble to put as many crossover category toys to the test this year (think Skylanders, Wappydog, Angry Bird plush etc) we'd somehow almost missed this plumber based box of racing good ness. The Mario Kart Battle pack features a Mario and Yoshi sat in their rides and an assortment of track accessories for you to establish where your hairpins and chicances should be placed. whilst you race the lights on the nift RC unit have lights which each represent an action you'd find on the console version, Mushroom: Gives a speed boost Green Shell: Sends your opponent hurtling backwards Lightning: Sends ...
The upper class fox was at his very best in the eighties, close to the cuff humour for kids TV, often ridiculing his guests and co-hosts, quality Telly. Now you can own your own Basil Brush handpuppet, give him a squeeze and he'll let out his grin inducing laugh topped off with a legendary "Boom Boom" at the end. At just £12.99 seems like a no-brainer.
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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