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Press Preview in Pictures

Its press preview time at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, plenty of stuff we saw in London last week but a few bits these Europeans will likely be sneaking on eBay when they get their shipments ahead of us. So here are a few that caught our eye that are worthpaying the premium for come Spring so you can grab yours first and claim bragging rights in Blighty. From Silverlit a Hot Wheels, RC, construction multi combo that lets you build impressive tracks, race mini RC’s upon them (up to five at a time). These cars do scales speed of about 1000kmh and the controller has a steer button to help you overtake the competition, not so easy at this rate of knots. The Hong Kong toy makers have also let us peek at the HeliCube, it might only be 2 channel but it comes inside an RC box that slips in the top pocket, great gimmick, GYRO stablised too.

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Rubik’s Cube with bling

We’ve not too much info on it, well whats to talk about really, several shades of Silver cover the surfaces, completing this one should be a challenge after the brilliant bright colours of the original. For us, this one screams paper weight, sure its all silvery and perhaps even trying to shed its geek image and become, erm, sexy? Make your own minds up, Rubik’s Ikon is £12.99 from John Adams.

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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.

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You’ll be hearing and seeing plenty more about the LEGO(R) DC Universe Super Heroes range over the coming weeks as it hits the shelves, we’ve uncovered it on the virtual aisles on pre-order at Firebox and thought a heads-up was only fair so you could try and save some cash. Our favourite by far is the Batcave set, complete with Bane and his drilling machine trying to rescue Poison Ivy whilst Batman and Robin try and stop him – you decide who prevails. The set lets you transform Bruce into Batman as he travels down in the lift, it has a Batcycle included, the Drill Tank has flick missiles and there are a raft of other accessories to justoifyb the £70 price tag, but wait, what’s that, Holy Bargain Basement Batman, the range starts at about £10 with a Catwoman on a motorcycle….Can you resist her lure? We’re also keen to get our mitts on a Superman minifig, looks the business….

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The annual stocktake is underway at London Zoo today, we’d not mind being in charge of elephants/giraffes or sloths – easy enough but what about those poor folk who have to do the reptile house? Anyroad, here’s a mini display of  Zoo life that’d make a great toy for the kids or even a boardroom homage to all of Noahs friends….If we hear of an undercount in the lion/tiger enclosure we’ll let you know.

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Hardly a person among us would turn down the offer of a drum kit, its one of those instruments that you can feel like you’re having a fair crack at a tune even if it sounds like someone has just thrown a set out of a window. Trouble is with this kit, is the space it all takes up, and so we’ve found one being shipped from Lilliput, a desktop drum kit deswcribed as “badumn tish”. None of that hight tech trickery or touch pad nonsense, this is an old-school drum set one tom-tom, couple of snare drums and a splash crash cymbal all finsihed in chrome – £14.95. Whilst we have you, why not nab a couple of these drumstick pencils to play your new acquisition with, let the annoying begin.

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There can be little worse than the dissatisfaction associated with pulling a sub-standard Xmas cracker. Most of the time the banging bit has to be pulled seperately as it slipped out of your cheap crepe paper number during the tug-of-war process and then, whoever is victorious, wishes they weren’t – spyglass, plastic charms, dic good-for-nothing apart from top prize at a choking hazard competition. Now this selection is different altogether, “now this collection is…..” no stop that. From the Jumbo 4-in-1 cracker featuring classic Hasbro games and six legally required hats it’ll need those lower branches if you put it on the tree, then there are the single game crackers including Scrabble,Twister, Cluedo and Monopoly which each contain surprises (and of course hats) and when all are opened you can play variants on the original classic board games. All of them are available this way – Happy cracking and good luck with the Twister version if you play post xmas-lunch!

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No this is not the latest sighting of a fifties style UFO but a hotel in Sweden, yours for about £420 a night with breakfast – Certainly close to the top of our places to visit in 2012, and to get us all interested in alien life forms, unidentified spacecraft and the whole abduction deal we’re browsing the Alien Conquest sets from LEGO. There are a few in the range of various sizes, great detail on all, a huge Mothership had us hovering over the buy button but we’re drawn to the UFO Abduction model, 211 pieces, three minifigures and an LED light that shines down as the tractor beam to capture the farmhand. A rubberised trap door underneath the craft allows you to land on the hapless countryboy and, as the push down, he is taken inside the craft for experimentation, or whatever it is they do. Grab one HERE

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Away with the dice, old-fashioned playing pieces, laying out cards and lenghty set-ups the App Player is the multi talented board game that’ll be your new compendium. This “i” device and Android compatible game lets you use one board to power four totally different games, with more to come in the future we’re told. Play Humm Bugg (take it in turns to hum well known tunes against the clock), Masquerade for a game of charades, Great Big Trivia the general knowledge quiz or Tension, a collection of quick fire mental challenges. You keep score using the cross-shaped board all you have to do after hittong the buy button is await the arrival of the box and then get along to the relevant app store, download game(s) that take your fancy, adust settings (timer period, sound effects etc) then simply start playing and the virtual game cards appear on the screen. £19.99 of your hard-earned HERE

 

 

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Free LEGO with every Currant Bun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting tomorrow, right across the UK,  The Sun are giving away free LEGO toys for an entire week and the last part includes a LEGO magazine, this is a good week for lovers of the Danish brick. Okay, so you have to cut out a voucher and get down to your local Toys R US or WHSmiths,  and it’ll be on a first come first served basis, but what a great opportunity to get your day started a tad earlier. Here’s is the week ahead :

Saturday 8th October: Star Wars: Star Destroyer
Monday 10th October: Harry Potter: The Lab
Tuesday 11th October: City: Blue Truck
Wednesday 12th October: Alien Quest: ADU Jetpack
Thursday 13th October: Cars 2: Gremlin
Friday 14th October: Ninjago: Ninja Training
Saturday 15th October: Harry Potter: Trolley

Throughout the giveaway The Sun are running a Golden Brick comp where you could win prizes ranging from a Florida trip, Ten Grands worth of Gold and a load of LEGO sets.

 

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