The event will take place at London's ExCeL in the October half term. A new consumer event that lets kids and families engage with toy and children’s entertainment brands is heading to the UK’s capital. Pioneered by the ...
Tags: Simon Pilling, Toytesters.tv, Gemma gallagher, Toytopia, Kidtropolis
With more than 37 years of experience in the industry, Schaden joins the company as its new executive VP of sales. Alex Brands has revealed that toy industry veteran Chris Schaden will be joining the company as its new executive VP of ...
Tags: Alex Brands, Appointments, Chris Schaden
It was the brand‘s Explorer 5-trikes-in-1 that took home the prestigious award in the Toddler Toy one to three years category at this year's event. SmartTrike is celebrating a big win at this year’s Prima Baby and Pregnancy ...
Sainsbury's, Argos and Amazon also took home the gongs at the annual retailer awards earlier this week. Online retailer Shop Direct emerged as the big winner at this year’s Retail Week Awards 2016, taking the gong home in no less ...
Tags: Shop Direct, Retail Week Awards, Amazon, Argos
Toy suppliers can enter the Toys and Games, Outdoor Toys and Creative Play categories. This year's Practical Pre-School Awards is now open for entries. Hosted by Practical Pre-School Magazine, the Awards celebrates products aimed at ...
The competition is asking children to draw what it is that makes them special and unique. An art exhibition at West London art space Maxilla Walk Studios will see the launch of an global art competition for children by toy development ...
Tags: Art, Global art competition, Arklu, Lottie doll box
This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
Tags: Inventors, Virtual reality
Radio One presenter Matt Edmondson was on hand to showcase his latest gaming title, still currently in development among a crowd of game inventors and toy industry bods. Yoga, Cookies and cake topped the bill of last week’s Board ...
Tags: Coiledspring, Board Game Club, Yoga Spinner
The collection will allow kids to create and build their own Shopkins scenes for their figures. The Shopkins range is expanding even further with the latest release of the construction line Kinstructions from Trends UK. The collection ...
Tags: Trends UK, Construction, Shopkins, Kinstructions
The new 2,800 sqft store in West Sussex is the latest move in the growing independent retailer's plans to open a swathe of stores across the country this year. UK multi-channel retailer, The Entertainer is preparing to open a new store ...
Children should learn mainly though play up until the age of eight, says head of LEGO Foundation Hanne Rasmussen. The LEGO Group has put £4 million into a new LEGO Professorship at Cambridge University to help forward research in ...
The TV spot will be part of a wider marketing campaign for the new line that will also cover print with a full Kids' Football Magazine drive and social media promotions. FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has teamed with Flair for a new TV ...
Tags: Flair, Lionel messi, FC barcelona, Footbubbles
The puzzle range will be available to customers from April this year. Toy firm Clementoni is partnering with DreamWorks Animation to develop a range of puzzles based on the company’s Dinotrux TV series. The range, which will be ...
Tags: Clementoni, DreamWorks, TV show, Dinotrux
The partnership is the product of the latest campaign to emerge from the Danish toy company's fan invention site, LEGO Ideas. LEGO will be teaming with Cartoon Network to create a new line of building sets based on its hit animated ...
Tags: LEGO, Adventure time, LEGO ideas
The concept would give the user the ability to incorporate the 3D scan of their favourite toy into a game, or output it to a 3D printer. Hasbro has filed a patent for a new tech that allows kids to 3D scan their favourite toys to their ...
Tags: Hasbro, 3D Scanning, 3D printing