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Panini has unveiled the Scotland Official Campaign Sticker Collection 2021, a new launch that follows the country’s nail biting European Championship qualification last year. The exclusive collection will feature 200 stickers starring the entire squad, with much-loved shiny stickers among the line-up. The album features four pages dedicated to the …

Plans have been put in place to launch the first official Nerf Action Experience attraction in Manchester’s Trafford Centre shopping destination through a partnership between Hasbro and Rocafella Leisure Group. The £4.5 million attraction will mark the first of its kind Britain, mirroring a similar attraction already open in Singapore …

The New Year marks a major milestone for Rainbow Designs as the pre-school and plush toy specialist celebrates half a century with a virtual showcase to launch its 2021 product line-up and collections for the nursery, toy, and gift sectors. Retailers will have to opportunity to engage on one-to-one virtual …

SKOOG, a new media tech company on a mission to offer children new creative and immersive play, has secured a global partnership with Sesame Workshop to launch an interactive platform that merges tactile technology with a content library featuring the popular Sesame Street characters. SKOOG aims to combine multi-sensory play …

The lockdown success of the games and puzzles market, a surge in the kidult market, and early Christmas trading all fuelled by the restrictions and implications of the Covid-19 pandemic, has helped the UK toy market hit a five per cent sales increase for its overall value.  According to the …

The British Retail Consortium and Scottish Retail Consortium have warned that the curb on non-essential click and collect services could prove ‘disastrous for an already beleaguered retail industry,’ with far wider implications for the UK’s retail sector should the ban widen. The warning has been issued since yesterday’s breaking announcement …

A former teacher-turned-coffee shop owner-turned-managing director of the UK’s biggest independent toy retailer outside of a buying group, Whirligig Toys’ Peter Allinson is a champion of the ‘things to make and do’ toy space. ToyNews takes a look at the working parts to find out what makes this toy retailer …

Shops across Scotland will be stopped from offering non-essential ‘click and collect’ services in a further tightening of national lockdown measures, Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon has detailed today. Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament that shops would only be allowed to offer click and collect for essential goods such as …