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January 2025

  • A still from an episode of the children's TV show Bluey.

    Lego links up with TV hit Bluey for toy sets to be launched this year

    Partnership ‘a long time coming’ and is latest expansion of Australian-made animated series
  • A Hornby model train at a station in the snow, with a model Santa

    Sales at toymaker Hornby up 7% after bumper Black Friday and Christmas

    Profits increased 10% in December at Kent-based company, which had struggled after end of Covid hobby boom
  • G2: The great Jellycat crimewave

    Shoplifters, scams and supersoft toys: how the Jellycat craze inspired a crime wave

    With the booming resale market for Jellycat rarities, retailers across the UK are reporting a surge in ‘stealing to sell’ shoplifting, with some going to extreme lengths to protect their ‘Jellies’

December 2024

  • two people stand on indoor, lime green ropes course

    Ten people injured after toy brick display collapses on to crowd in Massachusetts

  • A composite image of a grid of pictures all on a mint green background: a vape, a cucumber, an electric Lime bike, a pint of Guinness, Austin Butler, a Stanley cup, a Bic lighter, a brown bra and a bottle of La Vieille Ferme wine

    The year in stuff – from chicken wine to cucumbers and mini mullets

  • Multi-coloured, translucent water beads

    UK doctors warn of risk from expanding water beads marketed as toys

  • Skibidi Toilet on YouTube

    How YouTube (and Skibidi Toilet) changed the Christmas toys market

  • The Shining, burritos and $5 gifts: readers’ unusual holiday traditions

  • Good gift guide
    Australian Christmas kids’ gift guide 2024: 60 great ideas for babies, toddlers, kids and tweens

  • New Lego characters aim to represent hidden disabilities such as autism

  • Money hacks
    How to buy preloved items to give as Christmas gifts

November 2024

  • Justin McCurry at the Tokyo Tower with his Moflin, which squeaks when he strokes it

    Can a fluffy robot really replace a cat or dog? My weird, emotional week with an AI pet

  • Composite image of Christmas gifts for tweens all held by illustrated hands

    The Filter
    Best Christmas gifts for tweens, as chosen by 9- to 12-year-olds themselves, from Jellycat toys to slime

  • Comp of images of a tent, a wristwatch and a story box featuring illustrated hands

    The Filter
    Best Christmas gifts for children under five – as chosen by kids themselves (and their parents)

  • Comp of shark fin swim aid, lego truck and cow squishmallow with illustrated hands

    The Filter
    Best Christmas gifts for children aged five to eight, chosen by kids themselves – from Squishmallows and slime to Lego

  • ‘Fart blaster’ tops Christmas toy wishlist as experts predict record sales

  • Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls mistakenly link to pornography website on packaging

  • Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego

October 2024

  • (L to R) Grégory Fitoussi, Suzanne Clément, Jean Reno and Franck Dubosc in Family Pack.

    Family Pack review – Jean Reno is game for a laugh in card-based time-travelling caper

  • A woman with a sharp bob wearing a red and black high-neck striped knit top. In the background is a collection of eccentric objects.

    Three things
    Three things with Claudia Chan Shaw: ‘Pull out a Bic four-colour pen in a meeting and it’s a real icebreaker’

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