Toys R Us is selling a number of fresh Skylanders Giants products exclusively. The retailer has the Legendary Bouncer figurine available for £16.99, the Legendary Stealth Elf (pictured) for £8.99 and a £26.99 Legendary ...
Tags: boys, exclusive, skylanders, skylanders giants, toys r us
Your kids are asking for them,and you've relented.Here are some tips that will help you make gadget gifts a hit for the children—and for you.Some of these tips can help for those grown-up kids you're buying gifts for,too. 1.Check ...
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The Laptop Guy announces its upcoming summer Groupon Daily Deal offering savings on iPod, iPhone, iPad, and laptop screen repairs starting June 24th, with a special preview day on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Just in time for summer, Groupon ...
Tags: Laptop, laptop screen repairs, screen, computer
It’s usually Dream Toys which signals the start of 'top toy' price-cutting, but we're in November and so far the inevitable heavy toy discounting has yet to materialise. Last year Asda, Toys R Us and Argos engaged in a price war in ...
Tags: retail, toynews blog, Toys, Price
Disney rocked the world this week by announcing it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion – AND release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015. The entertainment giant has come a very long way since its 1928 black and white Mickey Mouse film ...
One of the toy industry’s most endearing qualities is its many stories of enterprising individuals from humble origins who achieve spectacular success. We all know of people. From manufacturers and distributors to retailers and ...
Tags: jon salisbury, Toys, toy business, columnist's attention
Can you imagine asking two major retailers to pitch for the right to list your products in an ever upward spiralling bid process? Not likely. And yet that’s pretty much how the licensing process works. Licensors are in effect ...
Tags: Toys, steve reece, Licence, Trader
Who holds the responsibility of capturing the value of all multichannel results in your company? Here are some of the questions that could help you to improve the measurement of your company's multichannel strategy (see the bottom of the ...
Tags: multichannel, neoworks, online, retail, toy
After pencilling in birthday celebrations, extensive press trips, events and launches and other shenanigans my diary for the coming weeks looks do-able (apart from two jam-packed days at BLE next week). But recently, Toyology has been ...
Tags: Toyologist, Toys, peter jenkinson, toyology
Without a doubt the biggest talking point on ToyNews Online and our Twitter feed this week has been the mooted Gangnam Style toy. The Psy action figure can recreate all the dance moves from the video, which has scored over 420 million ...
Tags: gangnam style, Toys, Blog, Toynews
It seems that not a day goes without an email popping in to my inbox from a supermarket or national chain advertising a toy sale. Of course, toys aren’t a grocer’s core market, and driving footfall via any temporary deal or ...
Tags: asda, disney, dominic sacco, grocers, retail, supermarkets, toynews blog
Magasins de jouets sans frontières? Do you remember the TV game show It’s A Knockout or the Peter Gabriel song Jeux Sans Frontières? Now it’s toy shops’ turn to expand beyond traditional frontiers. ...
Tags: jon salisbury, Toys, toy shop, dream toy
What you see before you is the first in a series of regular blogs that the ToyNews team - myself, Samantha and Dominic - will be writing for you every Friday. We very much hope that you’ll enjoy them and would love to hear what you ...
Tags: Toys, blog, techpet, top drawer
It has been a veritable stampede this week. There’s been a whirlwind of events and launches - just as the kids feet hit the playground the diary dates have started to stack up again in earnest – although that might sound like a ...
Tags: dream toys, peter jenkinson, Toys, Toyologist
There once was a time when a holiday in early August was far removed from the realms of possibility. Only once the new Argos book had been studied could I consider taking a week off. However, no longer are there the nasty surprises in the ...
Tags: counter insurgent, Christmas toy, toy price