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Published in May 2nd, 2008
Hornby, the makers of the famous railway toys, are buying out Corgi in a £7.5 million deal.
Corgi marks the latest in a long line of toy brands that Hornby has been adding to its cannon over the last few years.
Hornby also own the slot car racing phenomenon Scalextric, and two years ago they bought up […]
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Published in April 24th, 2008
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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Published in April 17th, 2008
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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Published in April 16th, 2008
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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Published in April 15th, 2008
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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Published in April 14th, 2008
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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Published in April 8th, 2008
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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Published in April 7th, 2008
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.
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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Published in April 5th, 2008
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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Published in April 4th, 2008
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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