If you’ve got more money than sense (like anyone would admit to that) and you’ve got kids who just love to be spoiled, why not get them one of these £1,239 Ferraris? Peddle powered (so has a total of 1 kid power, instead of 600 horse power) the car will go from 0-quite slow in […]

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Six year old Jeorgia Blythin from Chester was part of an ‘elite’ child testing panel that put some of the most sought after toys for next Christmas through their paces. In exchange for playing with the toys, she and her fellow panellists were presented with a free toy and a certificate.
In addition to testing […]

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OK, so the Teletubbies haven’t ‘actually’ killed anyone, that we know of. Though of course we can’t be certain they haven’t, but we don’t have any evidence to suggest otherwise, so we’re going with they’re all perfectly innocent.
That yellow one looks a bit suspect though, don’t you think?
Anyway, back to the point of the story. […]

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Following on from our recent article about McFarlane Toys and the series of Halo 3 action figures, they have now released pictures of the figures. You can see the photos of the whole series here.
Our Halo 3 Series 3 figures are making their way to stores, but until they get there, feast your eyes on […]

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It sounds like we’ve made it up doesn’t it? However we haven’t, Hollywood tough guy Matt Damon went postal on a child’s dolls house, brandishing a baseball bat and smashing the toy to pieces.
No, this wasn’t the latest outburst from a Hollywood brat upset at someone who’d cut him up in his car, it’s part […]

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In what could be one of the most pointless (yet entertaining) experiments to date, scientists have discovered that male monkeys prefer boys toys such as cars and blocks.
In a series of interesting and rather stupid experiments the male monkies were seen to play with boys toys over girls toys, supposedly proving that the desire to […]

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This video is from the 2008 Toy Fair and shows the latest toy car range from Corgi, the H2Go cars. These are powered by water, Hydrogen powered Powered cars. Who needs batteries when you have water?
This could make Duracell  a little nervous.
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The quality of Chinese toys has been in the news a lot recently, especially with some very high profile product recalls just before Christmas causing massive losses in profits and leaving parents disappointed. The UK and the USA have joined together to pledge to keep a closer eye on the quality of Chinese toy products […]

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Poundstretcher in North Sheields has been fined £10,000 by a court for selling potentially dangerous toys. The store was found to have sold two products to Trading Standards workers that had dangerously high levels of lead paint, one of the toys had excessive levels of lead and chromium.
The toys in question were both Abacus toys, […]

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If Mario Kart is your idea of a great time you’ll love this Mario Kart slot racing system in the same style as Scalextric. Firebox.com are currently offering this great set for 40% off, at just £29.99. The full retail is £49.99. You can purchase the game here at Firebox.com.

This high quality Carrera slot-racing system […]

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