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18 June

Story box just gets better

The kids audio story delivery device, aka tonies have added the Playtime and Action Songs 2 Tonie to its collection of stories and songs along with an enchanting Creative-Tonie Fairy. Interactive storytelling is a space that these people really own and it is all done with no screens, we are rather big …

16 June

Fun and games for nine decades – Fisher-Price plays on

You’ve likely never heard of a place called East Aurora, New York,but it is home to the toy company who have brought us some of the most iconic playthings of the past century. Fisher-Price celebrates 90 years of making play today – Creators of the Chatter Telephone,Corn Popper and …

15 June

Start with the corners – LEGO have a new jigsaw line

It’s a 1,000 piece play, would it take longer to finish than a 1,000 piece LEGO set? Around £20 and there’s a minifig one and a couple of other colourful sets too – This is the one we’d hang on the wall once done though.

15 June

Beatles branded Hornby train

Since their first clockwork train in 1920 the train makers have created all manner of carriages and engines. They recently raised over £150k with a special set dedicated to the NHS and Captain Tom of raising over £30mn fame. We stumbled across this unit which was created to celebrate the …

11 June

Retro-o-clock – Time to grab a mini Atari machine

This pair of licences ATARI mini-cabinets are just £25 each, turn minutes into hours as each one has plenty games inside to play on the 2.8 inch screen. The red one with the legendary Centipede and Adventure, Sprint Master, Gravitar and Yars’ Revenge and the PONG machine with paddles and …

10 June

Replica robot from the Renaissance

In between painting the Mona Lisa and Last Supper the 15th centuries busiest man was knocking up early drawings of flying machines, parachutes, diving suits and just happened to create a robot knight. Yup, the painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman, in 1495 designed the first robot, a …

10 June

LEGO Hidden Sides unveils latest sets

Seems that the foray into the world of Augmented Reality is paying off for the Danish brick maker. Here we are into series three and, with something on offer for all budgets and build sizes, those who have been collecting all parts of the LEGO Newbury spook town so far are …

9 June

Tightrope walking robot – not spendy and totally necessary

The blurb on the box tells us that through eight experiments we can explore the astonishing powers of the motorised gyroscope and understand the physics behind its amazing behaviours and yada-yada-yada, experiments, science and explanations and so on….. This bot can, after some pretty straight forward putting together, …

9 June

Totally Bodacious – Bill and Ted are coming back

It is over 30 years since their most Excellent Adventure and almost 30 since they embarked on a (far too soon after the first) quite questionable Bogus Journey. And now, ladies and gentlemen on this, Bill and Ted day they are trending across social media as the trailer for their …

8 June

Stranger Things – The ride(s)

We were just wondering which one to amuse ourselves with, each is far too small for our inside leg requirements but we are hovering over the buy button on the Mongoose – You? Lucas’s bike – complete with bandana

4 June

LEGO Technics sets get the 20% off treatment at Argos

It is likely that all your LEGO sets have had the lockdown treatment, done and dusted, sitting on the shelf, your furlough fund running a little light. Rejoice brick fans, Argos have just pulled at 20% off rabbit from their bag on a select few Technic sets and there are …

2 June

Create your own back garden waterpark

Say pfft to inflatable pools people what you’re after (despite not knowing it yet) are more impressive things than the neighbours have. Yes, lockdown has driven us to this point of wanting to “beat the Joneses”. So, perhaps you’ll go for the over-the-fence six-foot high sprinkling Unicorn? Or tempted by …

1 June

Car showrooms in lockdown no longer

YASS – Car showrooms are open once more, how many weeks have I hankered after a new motor during this crisis, well, none. In the spirit though of getting the economy back on its feet I’m guessing, and I have not ploughed through eery vocation, that this might be one …

1 June

Pokémon – A new way to play

It has arrived, the adaptation we didn’t even know we wanted but absolutely do now. They’ve only gone and announced the Pokémon first-ever board game of the classic Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG), surely the most popular and best-selling trading card games in the world. We love them, kids love …

1 June

Wall worthy jigsaw puzzles

Early lockdown saw sales of jigsaws spike up to 300% and they’ve now entered the zeitgeist right alongside board games. Never enter into anything more than a giant-sized toddler ten-piece Pepper Pig puzzle if you haven’t a modicum of patience. Set your state of mind to moderately calm and whack …