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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Toy retail giant Toys R Us has announced a series of eco friendly toys. Whether Toys R Us is doing this because it genuinely cares about the environment and what we’re doing to our planet, or because there’s loads of money these days in environmentally friendly products is anyone’s guess.
The fact remains Toys R Us […]

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According to Toy News Online, Toys R Us has been granted permission by the council to construct a new store.
The new store will be 3,207 sq m and will be based in Sowton, on the Bishops Court Industrial Estate.  The store is expected to open in time for Christmas 2009.

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All kids love to have the latest battery operated toys with the flashing lights, the beeping sounds and the drive by themselves actions, but are these toys impairing your child’s development?
According to Amy Hekman, the director of the Child Development Center, Aquinas College, the latest battery operated toys might not be good for your children. […]

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According to CBS News some Hannah Montana toys have been found to have very high levels of lead. This is very worrying for parents as sales of Hannah Montana toys are thought to have totalled $100 million last year in the USA.
But, like so many vinyl products made in China, some of these have been […]

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According to IC Wales, Toystore owners in Wales are being inundated with requests from parents to find alternatives to Easter eggs this Easter. It follows a trend of health food campaigners preaching that our children are becoming too fat and are eating the wrong foods.
Some purists may feel that giving children toys at Easter may […]

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