A cat is set to replace the classic iron token used in Monopoly. Fans from 185 countries voted for the change on Facebook as part of the Monopoly "Save Your Token" campaign, which featured on the cover of ToyNews' February issue. The ...
Games specialist Drumond Park is celebrating another successful year of business. According to NPD’s Top Games Manufacturers performance table, the firm remains number two in the UK, in terms of full-year percentage value. It ...
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A fresh range of Sonic the Hedgehog games and puzzles will arrive this summer from Sambro. The UK toy manufacturer will design, manufacture and introduce Puzzles 2 Go, Board Games, Action Games (including Pinball, Four in a Row, Fire ...
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Board games specialist Drumond Park is anticipating 'another great year' with its latest slate of titles, which are on show at Toy Fair. They include Mask-A-Rade (pictured), a 'Who Am I?' style game which includes four pairs of spectacles ...
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The annual show season can leave some of us longing for the relative comfort of the office. Based on his own experience – but also the invluable advice of others – Lewis Tyler gives some tips on how to survive the show with ...
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A number of companies exhibiting at next week's Toy Fair will have exclusive offers to tempt visitors. Thousands of retailers who have pre-registered to attend the show - including Argos, Harrods, JD Williams, John Lewis and Toys R Us ...
Retail opinion was divided over what the most important or stand out moment was for the toy industry last year. Hasbro’s new Furby was named by just under ten per cent of the retailers we questioned, while seven per cent said the ...
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Game veteran wants to work with toy suppliers to bring dice rolling to virtual games. A new type of die hopes to change the way people play virtual board games. Dice+ can be used to interact with a digital board game, whether it's ...
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The Dad's Choice Awards are being launched this year - giving dads the chance to show the kind of toys and games they like to play with their children. Set up by entrepreneur David Ross, he has recruited a team of dad testers who, with ...
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Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
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Snowed In Studios, an Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer, and partner Le Scorpion Masque, a Montreal-based board game publisher, announced today the release of the engaging and educational Monster Chase game for mobile ...
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LEGO says its new entertainment franchise Legends of Chima will be a hit with boys–just like the Ninjago brand is. The firm even expects Chima sales to grow 30 per cent more in 2013 than Ninjago did in 2012. Legends of Chima toys ...
Newtown's children were showered with gifts Saturday — tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games — and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in ...
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But 13 per cent of dads refuse to let kids win because they can't stand losing themselves. Over 70 per cent of parents let their children win when playing board games, says LEGO. A survey of 2,000 parents commissioned by the ...
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Mattel 01628 500 000 Mattel had two of the top five family games last year, according to NPD December 2011 data, and Uno was the number one card game. This season it has a number of fresh products, including Chameleon Crunch, which ...
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