Touring Teddies Kickstarter: A Traveling Friend
This Kickstarter campaign gives your child a teddy bear pen pal who has caught the travel bug.
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Category: Toys
My Childhood: Coming to Me From My Parents’ Attic
GeekMom Sarah explores her parents’ attic to learn more about how the geek she is, comes from the geek she once was.
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Toucan Box: Activities For Your Kids Delivered Straight to Your Door
Toucan Box is a subscription box service based in the UK that offers activity boxes for kids aged three to eight.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Retro Collection
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Retro line brings back memories of Dakster’s childhood.
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Duplo: The 2×2 Problem
Playing with Duplo is serious business in this geek house. Join Sarah as she gets to grips with their plethora of 2×2 blocks.
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Advent of Christmas Past: Our Pirate Christmas Island Adventure
Come join us as the Christmas and Pirate Playmobil Advent Calendars are opened and hi-jinks follow…
Continue ReadingMOOV Street Kit: What a Legacy Toy Looks Like
The engineer in our family is wildly enthusiastic about the MOOV Street Kit, a toy he deemed better designed and built than any he’d ever seen.
Continue ReadingOnce Upon a Screen? A Look at Disney's Ultimate Dream Castle
We put the Ultimate Dream Castle through the princess paces to see if screen time and play time can live happily ever after together.
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: TOYS!
Toys that push, toys that inspire art, toys that look like famous geeky characters, and more!
Continue Reading11th Annual Chicago Toy and Game Fair 2013: Play is Magical
The Chicago Toy and Game Fair (ChiTAG) at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Saturday, November 23, through the eyes of a first-time visitor.
Continue ReadingGoldieBlox: An Interview with Debbie Sterling and a GeekMom's Take On Girls and STEM
An interview with the founder of GoldieBlox inspires this GeekMom to take a closer look at what girls really need to become engineers.
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Building Blocks and Lego Bricks
Do you have a builder to shop for this holiday season? Whether your builder is 4 or 104, or if they are a collector of Lego brick memorabilia, there is something in our Building Blocks and Lego Bricks list for everyone.
Continue ReadingLiving the Star Wars Action Figure Dream
The Black Series of Star Wars action figures will let you live out the action figure dreams of your childhood.
Continue ReadingSmart Fun from Marbles: The Brain Store
Brainy toys rock.
Continue ReadingWhen I'm 64 – A Pocket Sized World
Mattel’s world in 1:64 scale.
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Lego Rivendell Wows at BrickCon 2013
An elaborate Lego version of Rivendell debuted at BrickCon 2013, delighting conference attendees and Tolkien fans.
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Fluxx: The Card Game Gets a Board
Looney Labs has been changing the rules on gamers with variations of Fluxx. This year, they have taken it up a notch with Fluxx: The Board Game.
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How to Play Barbies Without Going Crazy
Here are four ways to play dolls that don’t involve shopping, weddings, or trips to the hair salon.
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BrickCon 2013 in Seattle This Weekend
BrickCon 2013 brings Lego hobbyists together to share their love of the brick with Seattle families.
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Design Your Own Structures With Lego Architecture Studio
Have fun with Lego bricks in new ways, by designing your own architectural masterpiece!
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Max Steel Reinvented
With a four year old who is obsessed with superheros and knights on a rotating basis, GeekMom Sarah takes a look at the world of Max Steel, a sword wielding superhero based on the line of toys from Mattel.
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Review: Monster Fluxx–A Spooky New Addition to the Fluxx Family
The ever-changing Fluxx game series takes a creepy edge just in time for fall.
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Product Review: Nerf Zombie Strike Dart Blaster Series
I leapt at the chance to review Nerf’s newest products: the Zombie Strike line of products, which includes dart blasters, foam machettes, and other accessories. First available at SDCC this past July, we received a pair of blasters and darts in early August and the boys immediately “claimed” their arms of choice. For 2013, these items are a Target exclusive (although they’re being resold at smaller retail outlets). They will be more widely available in 2014.
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Building on Her Own Terms: From Lego Foe to Lego Friends
At first baffled by the appearance of Lego Friends, Cristen finds herself challenged by her daughter’s opinions on the matter.
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Would You Rent Lego Bricks?
A new Netflix-style service offers users the option to rent Lego bricks.
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Cuddly Forge of Honor Creatures Fend Off Night Terrors
Forge of Honor, a start-up toy company, aims to fund its medieval collection on Kickstarter.
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A Little Bit of Electronics Fun with LittleBits
littleBits are an opensource library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun. See what can happen when you add them to the other toys you’ve probably already got in your house.
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HIT Entertainment’s 2013 Holiday Preview
HIT Entertainment was in New York City last week to preview their new Thomas the Tank Engine and Mike the Knight toys.
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Disney’s 2013 Holiday Gift Preview
Disney invites GeekMom to preview its 2013 line of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney Princess gifts.
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Sometimes It's Not the Legos
My son and I built our first Lego kit together. We’ve got tons of Lego bricks around the house. At one point, I even bought them off of eBay by the pound. My daughter and I assemble them together all the time, but adding my son to the activity was more accommodation than it was true participation. Until now.
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