The retail destination for collectables, trading cards, Funko figures, stylised plush as well as consoles and video games is rolling out LED lighting to GameStop stores across its global fleet throughout the year.

The new Nobles collection will include an extensive character wand range featuring the likes of Harry Potter’s wand in Ollivander’s Box, to wands for Professor Dumbledore, Hermione Granger, the Weasley’s and the Death Eaters.

The NPD Group now forecasts the global toy market to reach $99 billion by 2022 as collectables, gaming and social media reign supreme.

The Sports Direct owner has said he wants to retain 80 per cent of House of Fraser’s stores and bring in “cools brand of the moment.”

Clickbait has already been met with a positive response and has scooped the silver award for Best Family Game at the Imagination Gaming Awards.

The Master Online Retail Theatre will be situated in Hall 5 at Autumn Fair and will offer attendees advice on how they can ensure their ecommerce and social channels deliver greater revenues during the Golden Quarter and beyond.

“The group has acquired all of the UK stores of House of Fraser, the House of Fraser brand and all of the stock in the business,” it said.

“Looking ahead, we have a strong pipeline of products that we are preparing to launch during the second half of 2018, especially Pokémon and Fortnite, which we recently secured.”

As it prepares to enter its seventh decade, th Awards programme is being revamped with the introduction of an additional category for start-ups and with the inclusion of a digital preliminary round to the judging process.

Viral Talent represents a large proportion of the UK’s leading youth and family influencers including Tiana, Tekkerz Kid, Ethan Gamer, Meet the Greers, Ruby and Bonnie and the most recent signing, Nikki Lilly, as well as a number of international creators.

Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino will star in the new animated series from Irish outfit, Salty Dog Pictures

The results will be published on www.UKMums.tv for 30 days, starting from November 1 2018, with each category having its own dedicated page, publicity day and a newsletter.

“Match Attax is an incredibly important brand to us and we are looking forward to working with Playtime on the new season launch, brining the trading card collection and game to an even wider audience of young football fans.”

The awards programme has emerged from the increasing recognition from parents of the importance of teaching kids STEM subjects, particularly through play with toys.

The partnership will see all proceeds from the screening go to MediCinema, a charity organisation that helps seriously ill children and adults enjoy a shared cinema experience together.

The campaign, which launched Magic Box Toys’ new collectable range SuperZings: Rivals of Kaboom, resulted in sales of more than half a million units in the first month.