Families love miniature golf. Bouncing scratched up colorful rubber balls off cement walls, up ramps, down pipeholes and through scary castles for a hole in 20. What’s not to like? It makes for a great night out. Wouldn’t it be great if families could take a miniature golf course with them wherever they go? Now they can.
Now that Fall is here, our kids are in school, the leaves are falling, and it also means that Halloween is right around the corner. So, what are going to be the hot Halloween costumes that kids will be begging their parents to buy them this year? Well, like last year, it seems that PIRATE costumes are just as hot and show no signs of cooling down. Argh!
Hasbro has acknowledged that it is aware of the legs of the new Star Wars AT-TE toy are incapable of supporting the weight of the toy and pop off. The issue apparently stems for problems in quality control and Hasbro is working on a solution which it hopes to have to customers soon.
The guys over Nerf get it. They know kids love to play army and have geared their battle line towards kids who fantasize about being G.I. Joe. So, how does Nerf compete with such digital rivals as CALL OF DUTY and MEDAL OF HONOR? Simple. They come out with a high tech lazer tag set called the Lazer Tag Multiplayer Battle System. INCOMING!
The fact that kids are tech obsessed isn’t lost on a company like Bndai. The creators of Power Rangers have created a new IM Mobile texting device for girls which lets them keep in touch with their friends without killing their parents cellphone bills. Dubbed the SmartBerry, it looks kinda like a Sidekick with retracting LCD touch screen that reveals a keypad for text messaging and IM. IT also hass features like game play and a strange business card mode.
Kids can save up to 30 addresses and picture icons of their favorite friends in the address book, can send email via WiFi, send text messages and IM, and play a host of cute little “Pikachu” like game that Japanese girls just love. But what’s really missing is an mp3 player! Come on, Bandai! EVERYTHING has an mp3 player these days!
Cost is about $100.
Hat Tip – D’Vice
Believe it or not, according to the latest surveys, more girls play video games than boys. And one of their more favorite video games to play are both Guitar Hero and Rock Band. So it’s high time our fairer sex had their axes with which to run a digital riff while jamming classic tunes to the popular video games. And that’s where Disney recording artists Ally & AJ come in.
In Arizona, where summer has just about anyone and anything looking for a swimming pool to beat the 120+ degree heat, kids are putting new pool toys to the test and giving Mesa toy maker Toy Splash their thoughts. And the feedback is pretty good as these latest toys are giving kids plenty to splash around about.
Following up on this post about Star Wars Happy Meal Toys, here’s a fuzzy lookin’ poster of them to give you an idea of what they’re going to look like:
The toys are coming to McDonalds in August just in time for the new Lucasfilm movie STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS.
Kudos to Edwin over at out sister blog, Coolest-Gadgets, for finding this really cool water powered jet car toy. It’s on board tank holds about 40 ounces of water and once it is pumped with enough air to launch it (about 50 pumps or 60 psi), the car can reach a maximum to scale speed of 272 miles an hour as it sprays a stream of water in its wake! Pushing down on the foot release pedal launches the car like a bullet from a gun.
Designed around the famed rocket cars which race the Bonneville Salt Flats for land speed records, the Water jet Propelled Road Rocket has a missile-shaped, vacuum formed PVC fuselage with dual airfoils that enable it to travel up to 150′ on a paved, level outdoor surface. It measures about 10 1/2″ H x 6 1/2″ W x 28″ L. and weighs about 7 pounds.
Includes an air pump with an integrated pressure gauge and two sheets of decals for customizing your racer. For ages 7 and up.
Cost – about $43 USD from Hammacher
By looking at what’s coming out of their product line these days, one is getting the feeling that former special forces personnel have taken over Hasrbo’s NERF. With heavy hitting foam based projectiles, NERFs product line is filled with all sorts of cool products that cry havoc and let ship the dogs of war. And the N-Strike Recon CS-6 is no exception.