Adult Toys
image courtesy of j_pidgeon theme: disney, toy story year: 2010 pieces: 257 prices: us$30 minifigs: 2 new disney toy story license theme. come with a star command spaceship and a secret moon buggy. the spaceship has an openable cockpit for seat buzz inside and openable back compartment for the buggy.
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LEGO set database: 7593 buzz’s star command spaceship
On January 20, 2010 I received an email from Caley Walsh, Editorial Director, of Favecrafts.com asking if I would be interested in answering the Monthly Craft Question over at FaveCraftsBlog . The question was: What was your worst crafting disaster? I thanked Caley for asking me to participate and responded: I am happy to participate, but have to tell you that I’m answering with both tears of joy and tears of sorrow at a sweet remembrance of a mother teaching her daughter to sew.
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My Answer To The Favecrafts Blog Question – What Was Your Worst Crafting Disaster?
by Eleanor de Bruin Young artists now have three new ways to make pictures, with one new toy from Crayola . The aptly named 3 in 1 Picture Magic is priced around £14.99 and is a clever device that lets children aged four upwards enjoy drawing and designing in different ways. Following on from the popular Spir’animal kit, this toy has a ‘Magic Pictures’ setting where children can use one of the six included magic stencils to draw a picture using a colour-coded dial
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The magic of drawing
image courtesy of j_pidgeon theme: disney, toy story year: 2010 pieces: 211 prices: us$25 minifigs: 1 new disney toy story license theme. come with a buildable buzz lightyear figure
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LEGO set database: 7592 construct-a-buzz
by Eleanor de Bruin Tomy’s loveable little Micro Pets have got an upgrade and are back in 2010 as Micro Pets-i. The palm-sized pets are suitable for children aged six and over, and are available in nine different models with fun food-themed names – two bears called Pudding and Rosehip, a panda called Oleo, three dogs called Custard, Chocolate and Whip and three cats called Mocha, Milk and Sesame. There’s also a glittery cat called Berry Fizz available to be won on the Micropets Website .
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Petite pets
There’s nothing new here, no unique design or hair style. She’s little Miss Mary Tyler Moore. Each color will be available in a quantity of 100 as follows: Gigi’s Dolls and Sherry’s Teddy Bears-Blonde/lavender: The Doll Peddlar-Brunette/pink: and My Favourite Doll-Redhead/turquoise: Price for each doll in Integrity’s Forget Me Not collection is $80
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Fuggedaboudit Poppy Parker Trio
…would Mattel charge $150 for a doll like December Turquoise? One year ago, Mattel introduced their Princess and the Frog doll. Here are images from the Disney cartoon.
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If Barbie Dolls Were Articulated…
I let this image sink in for two days before I wrote this post. When I first received the email containing the pictures of this new Avant Guard doll, Hot Trot, I thought of the Inferno Vita doll with her fire orange streaked hair and black eyes. The more I looked at this doll, the worse she gets.
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What Were They Thinking? Part II
It’s been really interesting to watch my one year old learn to interact with other kids. In particular, other kids and their various positioning in their families
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Using Toys to Teach Kids How to Share
image courtesy of lLikePi theme: disney, toy story year: 2010 pieces: 118 prices: us$25 minifigs: 1 new disney toy story license theme. come with a buildable emperor zurg figure. emperor zurg figure has a rotatable waist, poseable arms and a real working sphere shooting cannon.
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen’s distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director.
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Day 155: Woody Allen
New Board Games Campaign Manager 2008 Container 2: Second Shipment Homesteaders Mattel: UNO MOD Card Game Republic of Rome Terra Prime Restocked Board Games Age of Empires III Apples to Apples Party Game Arkham Horror: Dunwich Horror Battlestar Galactica Board Game Battlestar Galactica Pegasus Expansion Carson City Citadels Card Game Day & Night Drakon 3rd Edition Humans! Power Grid Ricochet Robots Roma Runebound The Frozen Wastes Tales of the Arabian Nights ThunderStone Thurn & Taxis World Without End Zombies! 3 Mall Walkers 2nd Ed Zombies!!! 2 (2nd Edition) Zombies!!! 6 : Six Feet Under Share This
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New & restocked board games – January 27, 2010
Well the leaves weren’t all brown (does autumn ever really happen in California?) but the skies were kinda grey (I don’t think I had ever seen rain in California before but I’ve certainly seen it now) and we did go for lots of walks……………so 2 out of 3 ain’t bad huh? In truth we got very lucky with the weather the week in San Diego was beautiful, nothing but blue skies all the way. And I got to reconnect with the love of my life…………….The Hotel Del And we had the best room ever, a complete view of the hotel from the front windows and the pacific and the beach from the side…….it was lovely waking up every morning (not something I would ever say) and falling asleep to the sound of the sea was something I would love to get very used to. San Francisco had lots of highs and lows (barump bum ding) It was around this time the weather changed so we saw lots of rains. It kinda reminded me of British summertime very overcast and rainy but not particularly cold………This didn’t stop us having a great time though, we ate sushi from conveyor boats in Japan town yummmmmm and did I tell you how much I love Japan town? Everything is super kawaii it’s ridiculous, the motto in Japan appears to be be if it doesn’t have a face, what’s the point? I stocked up on much cuteness
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Home again…..
image courtesy of j_pidgeon theme: disney, toy story year: 2010 pieces: 92 prices: us$20 minifigs: 4 new disney toy story license theme. come with a remote control car toy and a big one rocket
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LEGO set database: 7590 woddy and buzz to the rescue
the unwritten love letter http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/02/12/the-unwritten-love-poem/ Hello Kitty PMP Gets A Splash Of Swarovski http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/goth-hello-kitty-pmp-gets-a-splash-of-swarovski-says-she-hasnt/ I River Hello Kitty PMP Player http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/iriver-takes-the-leash-off-new-black-hello-kitty-pmp/ China might soon ban the eating of cats and dogs http://planetsave.com/blog/2010/01/27/china-to-ban-eating-cats-and-dogs/
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Random Links – 1/27/10
Barbie, as most collectors know already, is no stranger to real-life designers making outfits for her. She celebrated her 50th Anniversary last year with a spectacular runway show at New York Fashion Week.
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Basic Barbie styled by CFDA Designers
Over the last few years, we’ve sold a lot of board games. And after ordering, packing, shipping, re-ordering and the like, we’ve noticed a trend in what games will sell and at what price. This is obviously our own opinion, though it is mildly backed up by data. To start with, the average price of our board games sold is $29.53
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The Optimum Price of a Board Game
theme: power miners year: 2010 pieces: 183 prices: us$20 minifigs: 2 new theme. come with a large mining walker mech. the mech has a extendable titanium scissor claw arm, a spinning water jet and an openable cockpit for seating a miner.
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LEGO set database: 8189 magma mech
Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by Midway. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and features two-dimensional graphics
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Day 154: Space Invaders (Video Game)
MP-01B e-HOBBY EXCLUSIVE !!! Sold Out !!!
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TRANSFORMERS TAKARATOMY MASTERPIECE MP-01B "E-HOBBY EXCLUSIVE" C/W JAPAN COMIC…IN STOCK NOW
The Spirit (Denny Colt) is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared in Spirit Section #1 (June 2 1940), a seven-page insert into American Sunday-newspaper comics sections. He currently appears in comic books published by DC Comics.
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Day 153: The Spirit (Will Eisner)
New Board Games Barrel of Monkeys Battleship Travel Edition Card Shuffler – 2 Deck Heroscape – Raknar’s Vision Heroscape – Castle / Tower Expansion LCR Blister Pack Restocked Board Games Axis & Allies – D-Day Carcassonne Big Box 2 Dungeon Twister Basic Set Risk 2210 Sorry! Vintage Wooden Box Yahtzee Qwirkle Share This
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre
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Day 152: Edgar Allan Poe
In just a few hours we'll be wandering amongst this years hottest new toy launches, excited? Just a little! We've a team of toyologists hitting the stands and if the previews are anything to go by we're in for an avalanche of great gear. We popped along the other day to Toy Fairs new venue, London Olympia, before a single exhibitor was allowed in and this is how the place looks before they set up..Keep back folks, its going to be a heck of a week
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Toy Fair 2010 – The queues are forming!
It’s now over three years since Alison and I discussed launching the store. Since then, the concept of a balance between work and life has been somewhat lacking, which has occasionally lent to burn-out. Not surprising, for either point, when you’re an entrepreneur. In the first few years, I worked full-time and had to research and then set-up / manage the store. That meant between 40 – 50 hours of work on-top of my job. Mostly, that meant working during lunch hour and into 1 or 2am when I got home. On good days, I’d be in bed by midnight. On Saturdays, I generally spent the entire day working, with Sunday taking a half-day off for gaming. Other than fencing, work and occasional gaming was the life
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Work-Life Balance
Our very own Paper Toy designer & master, Adrian just produced an RX-78 in his cool Paper Toy template! IMHO, it is bloody awesome. Love the attention to detail on the markings and especially his White Base shield. Do check out Paper Toy RX-78 at Adrian’s site, along with his equally awesome previous Paper Toy productions!
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Adrian/Little Plastic Man’s Cool Paper Toy RX-78
theme: creator year: 2010 pieces: 539 prices: us$45 minifigs: none nice creator set. can be built into 3 building alternatives. can be built into a modern country house, a tall townhouse and a summer house
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LEGO set database: 5891 apple tree house
theme: creator, basic, baseplate year: 2005 pieces: 2 prices: us$15 minifigs: none come with a T-Junction road baseplate and a curved road baseplate.
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LEGO set database: 7281 T-Junction & curved road plates