Background Brobo is a huggable night-light. In addition to plush toys, Brobo and friends can be seen in cartoons (they have their own YouTube channel) and storybooks. Canadian artists Kim Blair and Jeff Lai have designed the series of five plush characters: • Brobo is a brave red robot from the future. He likes adventures [...]
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CONTEST: Win ‘The Sweeney’ on DVD
We're teaming up with eOne to give away 3 DVD copies of The Sweeney. Directed by Nick Love and based on the popular 1970s U.K. television show of the same name, the U.K. box office smash (opening theatrically in the U.S. this March) is based on the Sweeney Flying Squad, London's elite crime-fighting force - a [...]
2012 PAPAs: Plastic Toy Of The Year
Our final category for the 2012 Plastic and Plush Awards is the Plastic Toy Of The Year. Since resin has become just as popular as rotocast vinyl, they're all included in here (ABS, PVC, and any other kind of plastic as well). Whittling down to five pieces here was the most difficult of any category... [...]
2012 PAPAs: Plush Toy Of The Year
We resume our 2013 Plastic and Plush Awards with the last two categories. The Plush Toy of the Year category has been pared down to the top 5 releases of 2012. So here you have them... 5. Skell and Covers (Gravescabs - Sharkchild) The Gravescabs feature a "base" Skell plush, which you can then customize [...]
2012 PAPAs: Best Functional Toy
This is a new category for us. What's a functional toy? Well, pretty much everything that doesn't fit in the other categories. It's a toy that can often be passed off for something else, whether it's a puzzle, USBflash memory, or one of these... 5. Chuppi (Mathmos) Part nightlight, part designer toy. This light up [...]
2012 PAPAs: Sixth Scale Toy of the Year
We're back, taking a look at the final four categories in our 2012 Plastic and Plush Awards. Today, I'm taking a look at the best sixth scale (or highly articulated) figures from last year. 5. The Shadow (Go Hero) After being teased for a few years, we saw the pulp character, originally appearing in 1930's, [...]
REVIEW: Lamby Lambpants
Background Lamby Lambpants is “a sassy and precocious stuffed animal with a very obvious physical impairment”. That impairment is that he's missing an eye, which has been covered up with a prosthetic bottle cap (it’s what gives Lamby his magic power to bring other toys to life). Produced by Love & Fleece (that's the company's [...]
2012 PAPAs: Best Toy Line
In what is probably the most competitive category of the PAPAs, we remember the year that was in toy lines. There were a number of deserving line, so whittling it down to only five was a little difficult. Nonetheless...here they are: 5. Glyos System Series (Onell Design) Onell continued to expand the Glyos line with [...]
2012 PAPAs: Best Blind Box Series
It seems like the blind box craze sort of slowed down in 2012. We didn't review nearly the amount as previous years. And some series that were previously released blind-boxed have recently gone to the open front model. Nonetheless, here are five of our favorite blind box series of 2012... 5. The Big Bang (Dudebox) [...]
REVIEW: Ubooly
Background The Ubooly is a newly released plush that allows you to turn your iPod or iPhone into an interactive toy. You'll just need to download the app from the App Store (for free) and enter the code included with your Ubooly plush. The Ubooly app works with the iPhone (3GS, 4 and 5) and [...]
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Hot Toys’ G.I. Joe Retaliation – Roadblock
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Friday ESC-Toy Releases
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New Figures from Banimon
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481 Universe Custom Drop
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Hot Toys x Man of Steel
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The Walking Dead: Mystery Minis
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Curiosity: Pop Bomb Edition Release
- Toy Break Episode 262: I Love All Bananas
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May 21st Releases: turboPISTOLA
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Gooli Monsters Plush Line
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