AS THE Sun finally shows us it is searching through the weather wardrobe and making it’s hat selection we’re looking forward to a healthy year for the outdoor toy market. Last year this supercategory managed to climb towards an impressive 20% of overall sales and optimism is rife for another …

We apologise for the headline, roar-some has been overused in descriptors of this new three-foot long Jurassic Park T-Rex but it encapsulates our feeling about said 3,145 piece set. We’ll not witter on about its dimensions, display stand and other elements just lay down some press imagery here for you …

Celebrate the 85th anniversary of Tom and Jerry in the only way, from Tom(ish) and Jerry(ish) LEGO Brickheadz or FUNKO Vinyls or a plethora of other items (Little Quacker and Butch are harder to locate) or just binge watch some classic capers HERE from the golden age before they tweaked …

  There were almost 150 shops nominated and, after a public vote and evaluation by an expert judging panel the title was decided. These awards recognise independent model shops that go above and beyond in supporting their local model communities, highlighting the wellbeing benefits of hobbies, and inspiring the nextgeneration …

Exclusively through MasterReplicas.com. Starting with Spock and Admiral Picard which are available now for pre-order and priced at $25.99 each. There’ll be new figures released every month with the first expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2025. Heathside Trading have signed a wide-ranging deal with Paramount Consumer …

Big business this Kidulting thing going on, the numbers from last year are clear and with declining birth rates and an ageing population grown-ups are set to be the battlefield for these evergreen spenders. Theres been news a plenty on some of the ranges on offer specifically catering for these …

It’s a bit “broken record” of us to keep harping on about how the Kidult market (which has ben around forever) is now thrust into the limelight, labelled and defined, toy companies and licensors seeing the incredible cash to be had from grown-ups with money that isn’t isolated to be …

  Delighted to see this, the Sunflowers set, right up there detail wise to the Stary Starry Night set. reated in close collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the brick-built painting captures the iconic brushstrokes of Van Gogh’s masterpiece. A 2615-piece sets you up to learn more about …

We could wax lyrical about these coming weeks, our enthusiasm for the start of Toy Fair season is palpable – It all kicks off at Olympia in London this week and then to Nuremberg we go. We’ve read some superb insights into what might drive toy sales, read that HERE …

The LEGO announcement that it had entered into a deal with F1 last year has already given us more F1 stuff than we can shake a (gear) stick at. Huge launch in Vegas recently for a range of smaller builds here is the 18+, 1,639 piece set, impressive enough and …