LEGO City Police Headquarters is a Hot Item Right Now

Lego Police Headquarters

The LEGO City Police Headquarters is a hot item right now over at Amazon. It’s not on sale, but we had the chance to take a closer look at this set at the LEGO store and if you have a kiddo into LEGOs, this is one fun set to build and play with after you’reRead More

Air Hogs Vectron Wave Review

Vetron Wave

Our 6 year old’s number one item on his Birthday wish list was the Air Hogs Vectron Wave. We were hesitant to buy it for him because we have had Air Hog toys before that he begged for and he played with them for about a day and then the excitement wore off. I figuredRead More

New Car Toons Toys Coming in August & July 2010

Cars Monster McMean

I found two Car Toons toys that will be available from Mattel in August and July of 2010. The first one up is Frightening McQueen. It’s “Frightening McQueen” brought to life in a larger scale. With a raised chassis, monster-truck-worthy wheel and a cool custom paint job, little hands will love the push around playRead More

“The Princess and the Frog” On DVD and Blu-ray March 16th

PrincessandFrogDVD

I consider the The Princess and The Frog DVD a definite must have for your movie collection. If you’ve seen the movie and it enjoyed it as much as we did, then you know what I am talking about. If you haven’t seen the movie and are a fan of Disney, you will love it.Read More

Fisher Price’s iXL

Fisher Price debuted it’s iXL ( pronounced i excel) at the 2010 New York Toy Fair. The product will be available in June for $80 and is an educational touch screen game for preschoolers. Robert Eckert, Chief Executive Officer of Mattel, Inc., chose the toy as his personal pick for the hottest toy of 2010.Read More

Mattel’s Wall of Careers Featuring Barbie Dolls

I absolutely love this picture of Mattel’s Wall of Careers featuring the Barbie Doll at the 2010 New York Toy Fair. They had Barbie dolls dating as far back as 1959! As you may know, Mattel introduced their 125th and 126th career doll at the toy fair. You can see pictures of News Anchor BarbieRead More

Darryl Hannah Has A Board Game

Darryl Hannah attends the 2010 New York Toy Fair to promote her new board game, Liebrary on February 16, 2010. This is her second published board game. The game is a party game for 3 to 6 players, ages 12 and up. Players listen to the title and a synopsis of a real book, thenRead More

Introducing Fisher Price’s Big Foot Toy

Fisher Price’s Big Foot, a remote controlled toy, is demonstrated by Jeff Meacham at the 2010 New York Toy Fair. Here’s a quick look at the new Bigfoot robot from Fisher Price.What do you think about a toy modeled after Big Foot? Will it be a hit or miss? We asked our boys, showed themRead More

Mattel’s Video Barbie Doll is shown at 2010 Toy Fair held in New York City

Meet Mattel’s Video Barbie Doll, which debuted at the 2010 New York Toy Fair. Mattel’s Video Barbie Doll with a built-in LCD screen and download port for videos is seen at the 107th American International Toy Fair held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on February 14th in New York City. We are waiting forRead More

Trend #2 from the 2010 New York Toy Fair

We posted trend #1 from the 2010 New York Toy Fair the other day which was Active. What was trend #2? Accessible. Accessible Play means anytime-anywhere availability of favorite toys and games. Small and portable is key for kids and families on the move. Compact editions of toys and games – including classic board gamesRead More

Easy Bake Oven Inventor Dies at 83

The first Easy Bake Oven

The inventor of the Easy Bake Oven, Ronald Howes Sr., has died at the age of 83. He developed the oven while working at Kenner Toys in the 1960′s.You can sign the family’s guest book here. I love the story of how the Easy Bake Oven idea came about. A Kenner salesman, who had justRead More

“Toy Story 3″ Mystery Characters and Buttercup

Buttercup Toy Story 3

The good people at Disney/Pixar have been busy giving up little bits and pieces of news from “Toy Story 3″. We have already posted pictures of some of the new characters we will see in the movie – Ken, Peas-in-a-Pod, Lots-O-Huggin Bear. They have posted two new pictures! One of a new character called ButtercupRead More

Trend #1 from the 2010 New York Toy Fair: Active

The 2010 New York Toy Fair is over and with over 100,000 toys on display, the Toy Fair has issued a summary of the four top trends. They are giving this year’s top trends all “A’s”: Active, Accessible, Affordable and Aspirational. Today we are bringing you the first trend which was ACTIVE. We will alsoRead More

Introducing the Drawer Dropper© and Gaunt-O-Lot© Games

Drawer Dropper

More fun games! It’s quite possible I could stand in the game isle at a major toy company all day long and just browse (okay…and buy). We love games here at ToyXplosion and we have some fun ones to introduce to you today. Uncle Skunkle Toys, Inc. (UST), a developer of games that not onlyRead More

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