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Monday, 20 October 2014

Halloween Best Buys - A Review

Morphsuits from £16.99

Ive only ever really seen stag parties wearing Morphsuits but I think they are hilarious. When I was looking for Halloween outfits for the children, I was pleasantly surprised to see they also stocked a children's range too! Little E and Mister A had wanted matching outfits - which is easier said than done when you have a very opinionated boy and girl! We ordered these glow in the dark alien suits in small and medium and they are fantastic!! The children love them and despite them covering their heads and face they really enjoy wearing them!

Lego Mixels £3 each

The children absolutely love Halloween but I'm always concerned about the amount of sweet treats that they receive. Instead of buying sweets - these Lego Mixels are a perfect little treat to keep the kids entertained. These 3 are part of the Wiztastic Tribe and can be combined together to make one epic Mixel creature. I can highly recommend these - Lego really gets the imagine flowing and Mister A and Little E really enjoyed helping each other to build the tribe.

Halloween Creepy Crackers £4

These Crackers from Sainsburys went down well with the kids - they love crackers at Christmas so it was nice for them to enjoy them a little earlier this year. They contain the usual plastic mini toys and at £4 for 8 I'd say great to get in if you having a party.

Zombie Juggling Balls RRP £9.99

These got a lot of giggles in our house. These juggling balls groan as you catch them...or drop them as we found to be much more realistic. We've discovered we're all pretty rubbish jugglers so we've been plying hot potato with them instead as a fun Halloween game

Flashing Ghost

Little E loves this little ghost. It's not too scary and unlike some flashing toys it isn't so bright that it gives you a headache. She has been playing catch with this while Mister A has been practising his zombie juggling!

Serving Bowl £2 - Sainsburys

If you're having a little party then you're going to need a serving bowl for your ghoulish treats. It's large enough to cater for a party and cheap enough to be able to buy a couple that will last years!

Light Up Pumpkin £2 - Sainsburys

Perfect for the little ones! A safe mini pumpkin that's not too scary. Little E has been playing with this all week in her play kitchen. We've been to buy more to decorate the house.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Review: Cars 2 Duplo

As you might already know, Mister A is lucky enough to be a Lego Duplo Expert and regularly reviews (and tests to extreme limits!) lots of Duplo, either giving it the thumbs up or thumbs down.

This time around he received a magnificent haul of Cars 2 Duplo and I have to say these are one set of toys that have been out almost every day. Usually Mister A gets bored after a week or so and certain unfortunate toys are cast to the back of the toy box never to be seen again (sorry Slinky) : ( The Cars 2 Duplo however is even getting a road testing from Little E whose favourite job is to stick together 2 small Duplo pieces and then break them up over and over again.

So... here are the fab sets we were sent....

LEGO Duplo (5829) Cars 2: The Pit Stop

LEGO Duplo (5818) Cars 2: Luigi's Italian Place

LEGO Duplo (5810) Cars 2: Tokyo Racing

LEGO Duplo (5817) Cars 2: Agent Mater

Mister A wasted no time unpacking the pieces but asked the same question as usual. "Muuuu...um...my, why do all the pieces come in different tiny bags." - Now this is something I have often wondered myself. Ever since I was a young girl building my Lego house on Christmas day circa 1988, I have have struggled to work out whether there is any logical wrapping of Lego pieces. I used to think that maybe they were wrapped according to different stages of the build but on several occasions this was proved wrong. Then I thought maybe they were all similar kinds of pieces - like all the long ones were maybe packaged together, but that doesn't seem to be true either. It's not a colour thing either so I'm still left guessing, maybe I'll ask them when we all meet up? Maybe I won't just in case it's really obvious and I look totally silly! Anyway, I don't answer Mister A but instead cause a distraction by opening all the bags - gah - imagine if I've messed up the system by not opening the bags in the order they were intended. I guess we'll never know!

Anyway, I digress. Mister A has been playing with these sets for a good couple of months now and he literally LOVES them. His particular favourite is the 'Agent Mater' - this is because it fires missiles.*

He absolutely loves setting them all up on his 'car mat' and wheeling them round doing diff rent voices for each character so they're really stimulating his imagination. He loves that he can build the sets himself (even if Daddy does try to get involved!) and more often than not he constructs what he calls a 'mega-garage' out of all the Duplo bricks from all of these and previous sets - very creative. Unfortunately, Little E thinks it's hysterical to obliterate said structure and the mayhem commences.

All in all these Duplo sets come highly recommended by Mister A and slowly but surely Little E too. A big thumbs up from us - hours of silence can be had when Mister A is in construction mode. Go buy...NOW!!

*Mister A has since been banned from using Agent Mater within a 5 metre radius of his sister due to several 'accidental' hits. "But Mummy, I didn't mean to hit her, she moved in front of the missile" - you get the picture!

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Lego Duplo Expert: Caravan Set

As some of you may know, last year Mister A was lucky enough to be chosen as one of 20 Lego Duplo Experts and over the course of the year we will hopefully be reviewing lots of lovely Duplo.

Our first parcel arrived just before Christmas and Mister A couldn't wait to get his hands on it. The Lego Duplo Caravan...

When I saw it I was a bit dubious and that he might get bored of it easily because he does have some quite 'advanced' toys but he's loved it so far. It's so great to watch him playing with toys like this because it seems to really open up his imagination. He loves driving the car around with 'Daddy' in the front seat...

At first he was a bit concerned that the Mummy, Daddy and Baby wouldn't all fit in the car at once but he has since learned how to get them all in. He loves sitting them all down for their BBQ meal...

I particularly love that the set comes with sleeping bags - a lovely little touch. When they've had enough for the day they can head back in to the caravan for a good nights sleep.

At £30.99 it's quite pricey, but it's a great little set with 21 pieces in total and you know that when you buy Duplo it is built to last (we still have Duplo from 20 years ago when we were younger!) Mister A seems to enjoy playing with it on every occasion and loves deciding where the family are going on their holidays - sometimes they go alien hunting, sometimes they go to France - make of that what you will!

So Mister A - thumbs up or thumbs down?

Overall, we love it and we would recommend - although we'll be buying more Duplo so that Mister A can build some new places for the family to visit.

The Lego Duplo Caravan costs £30.99 and is available at Lego.com

Friday, 10 September 2010

Our family trip to Legoland Discovery Centre, Manchester - A Picture Review

*This is not a sponsored post*

I recently entered a competition on Twitter to win the chance to do a 'tweet review' of the Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester. And guess what? The lucky mother that I am - I won a family ticket!

If you're wondering what a 'tweet review' is then search #LDCreview on Twitter to see for yourself!

When we set out, we weren't sure what to expect. We had heard stories of horrendous queues and long waits for the attractions - but we went there with open minds. I have to say- I could tell that Chris was really excited, he loves Lego - but he was trying to be discreet about it.

Mister A and Daddy outside LDC Manchester

We arrived at LDC on Wednesday afternoon and, as the kids had all gone back to school, there were no queues at all and we walked straight in.

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