TOYOLOGY Toyology-The Action Men of the batteries not included industry
Here’s our first peek at The Downtown Diner (aka Central café if it makes you Brits feels better) is a LEGO Retail exclusive and an early 2018 addition to the Creator Expert Modular Building series. This classic 1950’s style diner design has a pink and teal brick façade, this teal brick …
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December, 2017
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8 December
Netflix bringing us toy nostalgia – We can hardly wait
On 22nd December it’s the first episode of ‘Toys That Made Us’ on Netflix. This eight-episode documentary is all about the history of important toy lines and I’m really looking forward to it. It got me thinking about the toys that potentially ‘made ME’, my top Ten favourite toys when …
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8 December
Doll with attitude
Why do stores and online retailers slash prices? New year sales, end of season sales, closing down sales (there is a clothes shop near us that has been “closing down” for three years) the dreaded Black Friday weekend/week sale – and many others. These sales are the retailer plots to …
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6 December
Can you have too many toys?
We all knew it but now that the University of Toledo has published it as a research document perhaps we’ll pay more attention – Kids have too many toys. Controversial stuff from the Toyology team to agree with such banter? Well no, we’re proponents of promoting the non-plastic tat that …
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5 December
Tech for tots – Two reviews for toys to get your ankle biters into
Since Billy crash landed in to the world I’ve been made more and more aware of VTec. They are a toy company who specialise in electronic interactive learning toys for babies, toddlers and slightly older kids. Billys first VTech gift we were blessed with was from Grandma last Christmas. It’s …
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5 December
Teddy bears picnic from the terraces
I’ve never really liked football, in fact I can’t stand it. It might simply be that I was very very bad at it when made to do it at School and the nightmares have never quite stopped. This, on the other hand has warmed me to the so called “beautiful …
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4 December
Minifigures – Most wanted
The chaps and chapesses at Firestar create custom LEGO stuff, over 25,000 unique bits and pieces that are plays on the Danish originals and if you slip over to Firestar Toys and use the code BRICKME15 we’ve snagged you all a discount, a 15% one, are we good or …
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4 December
Now Tyler the Tiger is under a ton – Roarsome!
My boy Billy and I have been hanging out with Tyler – Full title -“Roarin’ Tyler The Playful Tiger” the priciest part of the Hasbro FurReal range yet, well at full RRP he was, now they’ve trimmed quite a bit off the price tag. Let us not beat about the …
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1 December
Bring your LEGO to life with the new AR app
Brand spanking new and free from the department devoted to new technology the LEGO Creative Play Lab are launching this augmented reality app – LEGO AR-Studio. The app mixes up the physical and virtual so users can play with digital versions of LEGO sets in real settings. Inside the software …
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November, 2017
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29 November
LEGO Chat bot to assist in sourcing your brick based gift
The’ve named him Ralph, the new chat bot is working on Facebook Messenger and ready to assist sourcing your LEGO gifts. Ralph, their Facebook Messenger Chat Bot, is on hand, with multiple choice questions, to help you pick a present and he is pretty handy at giving out free shipping too. Via …
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27 November
Top toys for Christmas 2017 – In cinematic format
We’ve seen, over the course of the past few months, top toy lists aplenty. Instead of having a moan about the contents of these lists or indeed congratulating certain elements within them the Toyology team decided to bunker down and debate creating our own TopToys for Christmas list. And so, …
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24 November
Robotic reptiles anyone?
The Robo alive brand has thus far brought us various water-activated realistic fish and turtles too, splendid bath time fun and we’ve taken a handful on holiday too and been amused by our antics beside the hotel pool. Two new creatures in the form of the Slithering Snake and Lurking …
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22 November
No avoiding the cricket – embrace it with a game
Cricket in a bag The Ashes are upon us, no avoiding it in the news, time to embrace the willow, wicket and seam (sic) interested for a few weeks. Load yourself up with some cricketing terms and not be stumped as the banter gets lively as we give the Australians …
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21 November
Cutting right through the Star Wars toy chaff – The Jedi training ball is the dogs undercarriage
“Too many Star Wars toys out there there are” as one little green man whose name rhymes with soda never ever said. Hard to disagree with these wise words though is it not? We’ve championed a few, and, ahead of the pre-xmas release of the new film, have a few …
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17 November
Lightseekers: Boulder & Zyrus – The new boys on the block are pure rock & scroll
Having just finished a gargantuan, glowing review of Lightseekers HERE, you can imagine my glee when the two new boys appeared on the doorstep. 8 hours later, it was 2am and I had to shut off the iPad – Lightseekers Awakening had stolen yet another evening. The two newbies are …
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