Kids try to help out … Via iwastesomuchtime.com Tweet This Post

The Matthew Broderick Ferris Bueller Super Bowl ad is available for early viewing … (the extended version) There are “dozens” of references to the film … some are pretty obvious and direct and others are subtle such as … “Behind Broderick on the roller coaster on the Santa Monica Pier is a man wearing Cameron’s [...]

Two Canadian kids using a weather balloon send their Lego man with a camera to the boundaries of space – 80,000 feet! (most commercial jets travel between 30,000- 37,000 feet). The full video with music … Or just the skyward flight portion … You can read more via the LA Times. Tweet This Post

The MicroDrifters lineup will get a Colossus XXL Dump truck … It’s impossible to tell the actual size of this but it looks like it’s about the length of a hauler (@9″) and about 9″ tall …so mostly in scale with the less than 1″ MicroDrifter CARS but obviously not in scale with the 3-4″ [...]

Old school? Check. Nerd Sports Fan? Check. Via Jack’sThreads.com Tweet This Post

From internet ad agency, Syzygy. Once again, we’ve taken 20 seminal (or just mental) events from the year on the internet and carefully weaved them together into a single illustration – this year crafted by Executive Creative Director, Peter Jaworowski. Your challenge?  Name each of the 20 events (and we mean events – just recognising [...]

From our earlier post, there are CARS MicroDrifters (or are they Micro Drifters?) coming … I have not seen one but I believe they are about 1″ in length with a metal ball bearing underneath as its mode of movement … No idea on pricing or when they will show up but probably for Spring? [...]

The new cute Star Wars Pod Fighter series is here … The big set is the 16-pack set with the AT-AT Walker, Fighter and 16-figures (4 exclusive figures and 3 hidden figures). The figures shown here are about their approximate size. There is also the Jedi Starfighter 12 Pack. The black non-transparent pods hold the [...]

Barbie as art … More here. Original page here – some images NSFW if you work at a place where people might get hysterical at an unclothed plastic doll … heavens to Betsy! There are really museum-art Barbies.   Tweet This Post

From FrugalDad.com, a fun infographic of the worldwide toy industry (including how we’re only 4% of the kids kids but we buy 40% of the world’s toys … we don’t wanna grow up. And you can’t make us!    ). Source: frugaldad.com   Tweet This Post