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The Nerf N-Strike Deploy CS-6 Blaster isn’t just a mean soft-foam dart launcher, but it also works as a flashlight! The CS-6 blaster features a bright yellow flashlight to illuminate the area in front of you, and most importantly – it’ll help you spot and aim at your target in the dark for stealth missions. The Nerf N-Strike Deploy CS-6 Blaster is designed for ages 6 and up and retails for $26.99 at Entertainment Earth, where its currently available for pre-order.
We love LEGO – I think every person who has had LEGO’s as a child just never grows out of them. So it was a real treat for us to tour the LEGO booth after hours and get to enjoy the newest and best of what LEGO is offering up for 2010. The biggest news from LEGO was the announcement of LEGO Games.
Air Hogs has recently released the Vectron Wave, $24.99, a new flying saucer that doesn’t need a remote control. The Vectron Wave is an indoor flier, which you can control with the palm of your hand. It incorporates obstacle sensors to detect proximity from the ground or your hand, so that it stay in the air when it approaches an obstacle. This means Vectron Wave will continue to hover for as long as its batteries last. We enjoyed playing catch with the Vectron Wave because …
Part of a completely eco friendly line of toys from Ecotronic, the Mr. Robot Head toy, $32.99, is based on the “Operation” style challenge of moving a metal ring along the twisty, turny metal wire without letting the two metals touch. If the user touches the wire with the metal loop, Mr. Robot Head will buzz and flash, letting you know you are going to have to try again. The coolest part? This toy is completely eco friendly and does not require any batteries. To …
In honor of the 75th anniversary of the classic board game, Hasbro has finally released a new design for Monopoly. Set to debut in stores in the Fall, “Monopoly: Revolution Edition” takes a new “spin” on the traditional square board-game by making it circular. Instead of using paper money and a banker, users get to play with debit cards and an ATM, also there are clear plastic representations of the classic tokens (bye-bye, little boot!), and clips of popular songs (like Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Daniel Powter’s …
The Sketch-Art LED Art Pad could very well be this generations Lite Bright. No cardboard with punch holes here. This silicon self-healing rubber allows you stick LEDs into the pad where they connects to a magical board and then lights up. The Sketch-Art LED includes 100 LED lights and Artwire, electroluminescent wire that lights up the edges of your art creations. Sketch can travel anywhere since it can be powered by batteries, USB, AC wall adapter, or car adapter and retails for $49.99.
Operation SpongeBob Edition takes a classic and merges it with a modern classic, Spongebob Squarepants. In this version, SpongeBob is trapped in Plankton’s lab wih 12 ailments designed to make him blab. The game comes with tweezers, 22 cards, 12 plastic funatomy parts, play money and rules. You can pick up Operation SpongeBob SquarePants Edition for $15.00.
Guess Who is one of those classic games that never gets old. Now there is a special Guess Who version that has been totally geek’ed out. The Star Wars Guess Who Game replaces the traditional Guess Who characters with Yoda, Darth Vader and all your Star Wars favorites. Use the force to guess the mystery face. The Star Wars Guess Who Game retails for $22.99 at Entertainment Earth.
EA Sports may be best known for pumping out games like Madden or FIFA but they have just announced a collaboration with Toy Island that will unleash some of the essence of their sports video games off the console and into your home. Toy Island will begin releasing Sweet Spot Sports, Voice Command and Sure Shot lineup of EA SPORTS-branded products. These EA Sports branded products will bring sports activities right into your living room or backyard that will get your kids and family moving, in …
We have been a fan of My Meebas since last year, so we were especially excited to see a newer version now with glitter. These latest My Meebas with glitter come in Intelligence, Happiness, Luck, and Beauty. The concept is the same and basically you still have to play and nurture your My Meeba (Tamagotchi style) in order for it to survive. Do it right and you eventually lead to the canister popping open to reveal an adorable stuffed creature inside. Because we still get …

