Articles in the Toys Category

Mini Trusses to Light Up Your Displays & Dioramas
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Posted in Toys on 13 May 2016
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If you need some mini trusses (Amazon) to build a frame for your lights to shine on your diecasts or diorama, good luck!   Amazon also has a bunch of mini lights to make your display museum-like. Scroll down the LIGHTS page to see all the colors available. If you need a Radiator Springs Diorama […]

Guess Our Helium Shortage is Over
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Posted in Toys on 1 March 2016
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There was a lot of talk we were running low on helium. Saw this at Target. Suck it superconducting magnet experiments, we got balloons to launch!

Toys R Us Flagship Times Square End of Days
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Posted in Toys on 31 December 2015
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Photos from the Gothamist – sad end of days TRU Times Square visit … More photos and visits at the link above.

If You Ever Wondered, Now You Can’t Un-See It
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Posted in Toys on 26 December 2015
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If you’ve ever wondered … View post on imgur.com

Now This is an RC Plane
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Posted in Toys on 20 November 2015
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Just when you get your RC up in the air, there’s always a couple other showoffs … This baby is an r/c Boeing 747-400 with 4 small fully functional turbine engines, flaps, ailerons, rudder, landing gear, and lights. Sauce <a class=”youtube-link” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzKPtQOzCg”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzKPtQOzCg</a> the attention to detail is amazing. You can find the full video here […]

National Toy Hall of Fame New Nominees 2015
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Posted in Toys on 17 November 2015
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The new nominees for the Toy Hall for 2015 are in … Can you guess the three choices? The Puppet The Super Soaker and Twister. You can read more at the National Toy Museum – they actually canceled Twister (too racy said Sears Roebuck!) but Johnny Carson & Eva Gabor played it on his show and […]

Jaz Wings Wants Your Toy Ideas
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Posted in Toys on 21 October 2015
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JazWares Toys wants to hear your ideas … at an idea incubator site – JazWings. “Toy and product manufacturer Jazwares has launched a new incubator platform for new toy and game ideas called JazWings. The new platform is a subsidiary of Jazwares and allows creators from around the world to submit their ideas for animated […]

Mattel 1:18 Scale 1966 Elite Batman Batmobile
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Posted in Toys on 15 October 2015
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Available from Children’s Toy Closet Amazon Store, a new Elite ’66 Batmobile arriving next week. I believe Batman & Robin are the ones from the Mattel DC line …

The Neverending Train
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Posted in Toys on 10 September 2015
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Well, here’s one way to set up your trains … I would snap all my credit cards before visiting this store.

Let’s Play at the KFC
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Posted in Toys on 11 August 2015
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Ah, they just don’t make ’em like they use to …   Is this some anti-capitalism shot to say KFC customers are “finger puppets?”  🙂 No kid wants a KFC franchise today – kids wanna learn to open a CSI Crime Scene Cleanup Franchise, right? So, you guys like the new old Colonel returning to […]