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Collectable Muppet Toys

January 27, 2012

Have you heard of the Vinylmation figures? They are these little (3 inches) vinyl toys inspired by the Disney theme parks and collected by many. I am newly enamored of them, I think they are adorable and I love the element of surprise. When you order them you get blind box, meaning you don’t know [...]

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LEGO Minifig Alarm Clocks

September 24, 2011

I know! Coolest thing you have seen all week, right? LEGO has come out with alarm clocks in the shape of some beloved minifigs. My personal favorite is the Darth Vader mini-figure alarm clock, pictured above. But following at a close second is Buzz Lightyear mini-figure alarm clock. The clocks are quite a bit bigger [...]

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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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Mad Libs

April 18, 2011

The post last week about the Have a Silly Easter Mad Libs made me start thinking about how fun Mad Libs are. I remember them from my childhood, but haven’t thought about them in ages. What I remember about them is how much fun we had writing them and how hard we laughed reading them [...]

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Stitch Wars

July 18, 2009

I saw this on Craftzine and had to share. If you are lucky enough to be in Lauderhill, Florida there is a art exhibit coming up featuring Star Wars stitchery. My favorite? The plush tauntaun (with a freezing Luke inside!).

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Star Wars Lego Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter – The Christmas Present Roundup Part 1

December 27, 2008

Woah. So we’re still trying to recover from Christmas morning and the living room remains strewn with new toys in various states of play. The dining room table has become Lego and Bakugan central, much to the chagrin of Mrs TR who still has one more plush Rocket Boy Rocket to make for a friends [...]

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This Year’s Champion 6th Birthday Present Is…

November 30, 2008

The Lego Star Wars video game. That’s right, not just a Star Wars video game, but a Lego Star Wars video game. I believe it is technically called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. The characters are all made of Legos and they don’t die when they get shot, they just fall into their [...]

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Birthday Present Roundup

November 29, 2008

Speedy and Rainbow turned six on Thanksgiving. They are officially big kids now they are six. They were quite pleased with their birthday presents. We started out the morning with some adorable ghostie lights from Ikea. They had been asking for night lights they could take into bed with them, and I saw these ages [...]

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Star Wars Seen Through Six Year Old Eyes

November 16, 2008

For you Star Wars fans who read my earlier suggestions on How Young Is Too Young For Start Wars that 8 was a good age to watch Star Wars for the first time, I have gone against my own advice! We finally broke down and let the Boys watch Star Wars at age 6. And [...]

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How Young Is Too Young for Clone Wars?

August 29, 2008

WordPress gives you the ability to see what search terms people used to find your blog posts, and I’ve been seeing a whole lot of these types of searches on this blog lately: “is clone wars scary for six year olds” “too young clone wars” “how old for clone wars” “clone wars under seven” And [...]

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