Airfix has released a new paid-for app game which it says will help lead more customers to buy the physical kits. The Airfix Tanks app - for Apple and Android mobile devices - comes in both full-game 69p and free 'Lite' varieties. ...
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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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The Malawi orphanage funded by the Toy Trust's Three Peaks Challenge last year has now been built. The UK toy industry's charity arm has revealed to ToyNews that the orphanage - named Toy Trust House - will be home to over 50 children ...
A host of physical Tetris games are in the works - including Jenga Tetris and Bop It Tetris. Hasbro and The Tetris Company have struck a licensing deal which allows the former to produce face-to-face games based on the classic video ...
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The 2014 London Toy Fair will take place from January 21st to 23rd, ToyNews has learned. The news comes after Simon Pilling, Head of Toy Fair Operations and Sales, says he was delighted with this year's show. "Toy Fair 2013 was a ...
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eBay has banned slave toys based on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained movie. Auction listings have been removed and eBay has cautioned sellers not to re-list the items, reports TMZ.com. The news comes after The Weinstein Company, ...
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ToyNews drew tens of thousands of visitors to its website during Toy Fair 2013, thanks to its unmatched coverage of the big London event this week. With 44 stories being posted by the ToyNew teams during the three-day event (plus more ...
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Remember the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars? Now you can turn yourself into a holograph with this new smartphone play-set: HolograFX. Inventor Andre Armenante demonstrated it to ToyNews in this world-first video - see below - ...
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The success of Avengers Assemble last year is being supplemented by fresh activity in 2013 and beyond to drive kids into toy stores. Marvel has told ToyNews about its Avengers sustaining programme and plans for fresh animated TV ...
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Pop stars McFly "tried to steal" a giant Predasaur prop from The In Thing stand at Toy Fair this week. It was all light-hearted fun of course, and Dougie and Tom from the band ended up leaving with foil pack toys from the distributor ...
Toy supplier Asobi is inviting retailers to meet well-known teddy bear designer Rikey Austin at Spring Fair. Asobi is the UK distributor for Alice’s Bear Shop and exclusive supplier of the complete range of bears and story books in ...
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Around 6.2 million Skylanders figures were sold in the UK last year. MCV reports Activision’s kids franchise was the UK’s biggest physical video games brand last year, with Skylanders toys representing 25 per cent of all video ...
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A new range of books and dolls - Book Babies - is "just right for the Slow Toy movement", says the company. The products - on display on Toy Fair 2013 stand 152 - include plush ragdolls and books aimed at inspiring children from three ...
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ToyNews can reveal that Spirograph will be launching in the UK after all - in full 3D. Goldfish & Bison will launch fresh products this summer, starting from an entry-level £2.99 pack right up to a £24.99 studio set. The ...
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Paul Lamond is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with a DVD board game. The game, which is on show at Toy Fair and launches this summer, contains over 100 clips taken from the sci-fi TV series and thousands of trivia ...
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