I stumbled across an old report on ABCNews.com is reporting who two of the geniuses that swap out inexpensive toys from its box and replace it with an expensive ones so they can get a scan of a cheap toy rather than pay for the more expensive one.  Over $2 Million stolen this way. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/08/mom-son-charged-with-2m-toy-thefts/ [...]

Well, we think the squirrels have finally stopped gnawing on the cables and have returned our website back to normal. If you were some of the readers and visitors seeing 500 internal server errors, the short answer is the migration our host completed for us was borked.  It took some time to figure out just [...]

Take a gander over at the post that has been updated… WINNER UPDATE:Huzzah! A New Contest To Celebrate Metroxing’s 4,000th Post On TakeFiveADay.com Congrats to you…and Metro some $ coming to you soon courtesy of our intrepid readers! – Tizmanian Tweet This Post

Holy squirrel carcass on a skewer! UPDATE: Too many good choices for me to pick… so… courtesy of Random.org, we have our randomly picked winner (you know we love you all!): MIKE MANIFOLD! Congrats, Mike! Just drop Tizmanian a return email (sent to you a bit ago) with your mailing addy and I’ll run to [...]

A cool new publisher of mobile apps for kids called Weeblets has just launched a new free app (ad supported natch) for iPhone and Android owners called Spotisodes. What the heck is a Spotisode?  Crudely put, think of it as a video-enhanced ‘Where’s Waldo?” type of game with songs.  More succinctly put, The VeggieTales Spotisode [...]

And the winner is…..Mike Manifold!  Mike, shoot Tizmanian an email at tizmanian (at) yahoo (dot) com with your physical address so we can get your prize mailed out! We loved all of the entries in this one so we had to select the winner randomly.  More contest fun to come! Winner originally announced in first [...]

Hey Taker5ers! Tizmanian here with a little housekeeping… We just installed a new image zoom feature which should work on most of the images we place here. Click on an image and you’ll see a control bar overlay. Looks handy so let us know what you think in the comments. Not sure about how it [...]

 And the winner is…..Mike Manifold!  Mike, shoot Tizmanian an email at tizmanian (at) yahoo (dot) com with your physical address so we can get your prize mailed out! We loved all of the entries in this one so we had to select the winner randomly.  More contest fun to come! Occasionally we get asked to [...]

  Bad news especially if you happen to have a nearby Sears of Kmart location as a toy collecting resource. No word on which stores for either store operation will be closing. We’ll post those locations once we hear from Sears Holdings what / where they are.  If you would like to know more, you [...]

UPDATE 2: Bingo!  I was able to toggle the drop down menu to include all of our navigation pages. What you most want to know is that YES – YOU CAN ACCESS THE FORUMS FROM MOBILE NOW! Touch / Click that triangle in the upper right hand corner and MAGIC! An expanded drop down menu [...]