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Family Life

Lego Advent Calendar 2011 – Star Wars!

August 16, 2011

The fine folks at the LEGO Group have stealthily released this years Lego Advent Calendar, with a small amount showing up at one online location already in the middle of August. If you’re VERY lucky, they might still have them in stock here. So you think it’s too early to be worrying about getting your [...]

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Mini Kick Scooter Still Going Strong

March 8, 2011

We’ve had our Mini Kick scooters over 5 years now, and have been huge fans ever since. Mrs. TR first bought two of them for the boys for their third birthday back in 2005! There was only one color you could get back then, the blue one, and the boys took to them with surprising [...]

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The Best Kids Night Lights

March 4, 2011

There is a giant selection of nighttime lights out there, and everyone seems to have a different opinion on which are the best kids night lights. Well, that’s what you come to your friends here at The Toy Report for right? Let’s shed a little “light” on the subject, shall we? There are three main [...]

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The Best Lego Storage

January 9, 2011

Earlier this year, Mrs TR wrote about a homemade LEGO storage solution using plastic shoe boxes to store each LEGO set, complete with picture cut out from the box. In a perfect world we be able to keep each individual LEGO set separated from the others. In reality our many Lego masterpieces are now scattered [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving from the Toy Report and welcome to the start of Lego Season, as it is known around these parts.

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Cool Lunch Boxes For Kids

August 19, 2010

It’s that time of year again, when our children begin to get schoolitis, that affliction that sets in mid-August when almost three months of summer vacation have worn out their welcome and it’s time for back to school planning! Lunch boxes are weighing heavily on our minds right now. The soft sided insulated lunch boxes [...]

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Lego Storage

January 10, 2010

LEGO Storage is a problem for all of us with LEGO Loving Loved ones. Well, I have an example of an amazing LEGO storing system. I was reading The Blue Blog, one of my favorite knitting blogs, the author of which also has LEGO obsessed twin boys. Behold, the wonders of her Lego organization system: [...]

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Building The Kids An Igloo

December 28, 2009

About a week before Christmas we received quite a big dumping of snow here on the East Coast. We live near the ocean and it’s fairly unusual to get more than a foot of snow in one storm. But last week we had close to a foot and a half of great packing snow hit [...]

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Lazertag 2 Player System – 2009 Edition

November 28, 2009

Ok, Mrs TR is probably going to kill me for even suggesting this, but I really want to pick up a set of these Lazer Tag guns for the boys this holiday season. You see, Mrs TR is new school in the sense that playing with guns cannot lead to anything good and thus has [...]

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Pirate Lego Advent Calendar Letter Writing Campaign!

October 14, 2009

Well folks, we’re fed up. One of the kids was looking over my shoulder while I was editing out post on the Lego Advent Calendar for 2009 and of course had to know what it was and if they could get one for their birthday. And they were NOT referring to the boring old City [...]

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