Ugglys Electronic Pets

So you would like a toy pet to look after and play with? How about a nice clean, cute pet… no are you sure how about a pet with a difference.

In an ugly town, there’s an ugly dog pound that’s home to the ugliest pets around! The Ugglys electronic pup-pet is the ugliest grossest pet that comes alive in your hands. Place your hand inside then get ready to gross out your friends. Open the Ugglys mouth to bwuurp (classy). Scrunch its mouth and hear it let rip with flaarps! Squeeze your Ugglys head to make some wacky faces. In total there are over 30 gross sounds to amuse and disgust your friends and parents with, you can even make your own sounds. continue reading>>

LEGO Legends of Chima The Lion CHI Temple

Last year one of the Lego promotions was the series on Lego Ninjago, this year legends of Chima with the high point being the lion chi temple and various accessories seems to be one of the focus lines. And what a set/kit it looks to be.

There are large orbs, waterfalls, a lion gate and drawbridge trap, to catch all those baddies. Hidden lion claw bikes, a drone fighter, tower canon which rotates, a kings tower, bedroom and prison within. 7 characters and essential weaponry is included, and if you worry about storing then you can fold the walls easily for storage so you do not need to take about your hard work.

Set story: An epic battle for the CHI has begun at the majestic Lion CHI Temple. Cragger, Crawley and Razar are battling for their tribes and trying to reach the sacred CHI orb rising high above the temple. Help the Lion and Eagle tribes to fight everyone off and restore balance to Chima once again!

LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra

LeapPad products have been very popular the last couple of years running especially at Christmas time, and this year the Ultra version which was recently released is predicted to be a big hit again this Christmas toy season. Parents prefer to give Children their own tablet to play and learn with instead of risking sticky fingers and damage to their own laptops or tablet devices 🙂

The LeapPad Ultra comes with a large touchscreen (7″ inches), two 2 mega pixel cameras, and speakers. Parents can rest easy that content they can view is safe, as all content is approved by educators, the device is made to be more durable than standard tablets so that it can with stand heavier use. Kids can access safe games, and ebooks. The tablet does include a browser but it is secured so that only the safest videos and images from the web can be viewed. In addition you can restrict access by setting simple parent controls.

The LeapPad Ultra is comaptable with LeapFrog’s library of over 800 educator-approved apps, games, ebooks, videos, music, and more. The library draws on 2,600 skills in auto-levelling games which can adapt to your child’s pace in subjects like reading and writing, mathematics, creativity and life skills, and science and social studies.Games can be played via cartridges or download apps directly to the devices 8 GB of memory, you can hold up to 40,000 photos, and with a built-in lithium ion rechargeable battery. continue reading>>

Pogo Stick

Pogo Sticks have been around since the 1950s and became a massive hit through the 1970s when a redesign took place. Pogo sticks are still a popular children’s toy and most children are still keen to try the humble Pogo stick and see how they fair. So a Pogo stick is a pole with a handle at the top and footrests near the bottom, at the bottom a spring is in cased inside the pole. You need to place a foot on the foot rests or hop onto it and balance whilst you jump up and down with a slight bending motion at the knees. This motion allows you to control by adding or removing energy which goes into the spring below. Or you can see how many full bounces you can do to pretend you are Tigger or to travel in larger but potentially more uncontrollable steps. The modern pogo stick was invented in Germany by Hans Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, they filed a patent in 1920 for a device called spring end hoping stilt – catchy hey. Over time different designs have been made mainly focusing on adding more movement and higher bounce but also trying to protect the user from chin or head injury’s did also feature in several designs. Extreme Pogo or Xpogo is a growing action sport featuring 10ft jumps in height and many modern materials this has led to number of athlete and exhibition teams have been formed, this is one to watch the stunts and flips which are possible is great to watch.

Clackers

Clackers are a toy made of two hard plastic balls on plastic arms or a string which when jerked up and down the balls hit together making a loud click-clacking noise. the idea was to keep them active and clacking for as long as possible – Yes ok this was another toy fad 🙂 but they have had a number comebacks. They were very popular in the late 1960s through to the early 1980s.

The Clacker was discontinued over safety concerns as the balls/ends could be a little wild. A newer version of the Clacker which added fixed arms to the balls so the motion and sound were easier to achieve. The size of the weights/balls varied between models but a diameter of two inches was typical, with the original version with practice you could make the balls hit together above the hand and not just below. As we many toys Clackers were also known as Ker-Bangers and Clatter Balls and many other names.

A Pogo Ball is also known by many different names including lolo ball, Ball Hopper, or Space Ball. It has a similar function to a pogo stick, however it is smaller and to many kind of resembles the planet Saturn. It’s made from a tough rubber ball, which is inflated within the platform that is then stood on to bounce, hop and jump about up and down on it.

You stand on the platform squeezing the upper ball with your feet and then jump and bounce around, and try to keep you balance, once you have the hang of it, you can shuffle or bounce to your hearts content. You were never more than a couple of inches off the ground if you didnt want to try some big bounces. For many this was preferred to pogo sticks as they were less heavy and less powerful compared to the mighty pogo.

Hula Hoop

Hula hoop is a toy hoop which is traditionally twirled around the waist but also the neck, and arms is popular. The modern day hula hoop was invented in 1958 by Arthur K Melin and Richard Knerr, who using the idea of Australian bamboo exercise hoops manufactured hoops from plastic and with national marketing and give-aways a fad began.

At its peak 50,000 hula hoops were produced per day. 25 million plastic hula hoops were sold in 4 months and in two years sales reached more than 100 million units.

A standard size hoop is 71 cm/28 inches for children and 102cm/40inches for Adults. Todays hoops are made from plastic tubing, traditional materials include willow rattan, grapevines and stiff grasses.

Recent hoops have included LED to light up others include different plastics, glitter, glow in the dark. Some extreme people even twirl flaming versions in acrobatic and other performances.

Yo-Yo History

The Yo-Yo can be traced back to around 500 B.C. but it took until the 1920’s when a young US immigrant name Pedro Flores saw the potential after recalling its popularity in his Philippine roots. He founded the Yo-yo company whilst working as a bellboy in 1928. He began by selling handmade yo-yos to children around LA and managed to open a factory where within a year the company was producing 300,000 Yo-yos a day!!

The Yo-yo was a craze which led to countless yo-yo contests all over the country.

In modern times many different types of Yo-yo can be bought from simple, to more advanced ones with gears, lights and stunt based Yo-yos. They are a classic toy that is for sure and last for a small outlay.

SuperBall

SuperBall also known as Bouncy Balls if made by different manufacturers first arrived in 1965, they were small but thoroughly amazing rubber balls which were capable of bouncing very high and claimed to be able to bounce more than three stories high.

Super Balls were invented in 1964 by chemist Norman Stingley, the balls were an immediate sensation with American children, the Super Ball offered extra bounce and surprise to a normal game of catch. They initially sold for 98 cents, by the end of 1966 they were 10 cents in vending machines as the fad had passed.

The material was likened to the fictional rubber like Flubber material created by the character in the 1961 Disney movie The Absent Minded Professor. They were made from many ingredients mainly polymers and silicas and pressed together under great pressure to combine them into a ball which offers bounce and the ability to alter its shape slightly upon impacts.

By the end of 1965, the Wham-O company had sold more than 6 million Super Balls, at it is claimed 20 million in the 1960s in total. Even several dozen were purchased by McGeorge Bundy who was an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, who purchased the high-bouncing toys for White House staffers. Can you imagine them bouncing them off the White House walls or through the corridors?

In the late 1960s Wham-O made a Huge Super Ball version which was roughly the size of a bowling ball, as a promotional stunt. It fell from the 23rd story window of an Australian hotel (or some reports say, from the roof) and destroyed a parked convertible car on the second bounce, impressive.

Todays versions do not bounce as high as the older style, but they are better in chipping less on rough surfaces and coming in more colors and sturdy materials.

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