[Ad- gifted products] Robin is a huge fan of teddies, of things that are slightly strange, and of blind bags – so she was pumped to hear about the third series of Deddy Bears launching, which included not only new bears to collect, but also jumbo versions of the smaller bears! Now, you can collect key chain versions, smaller plushies, medium plushies and large plushies, each with their own back stories and some with little coffins to sleep in.
[Ad- gifted products] I remember playing marbles as a kid, at my grandparents house, where the marbles were in the back barn used for games of knock out. When we received Freak Marbles, I realized that Robin hadn’t played with marbles before, as it’s just not a thing for the newer generation – however Freak Marbles aims to change it all.
Freak Marbles have brought characters, blind bag mystery, and different games to the marble world. Robin got the chance to open a starter pack of three characters that you can sort of see already, which includes a draw-string bag to hold all of your Freak Marbles in, along with one of the blind bags which contains a marble and their outer skin. These skins are all showcasing a different creature, character, or thing, where as the marble itself slots in as the head of the creature.
The Freak Marbles you end up with do have an attack, health, and power to them, for more advanced games, as you can play in an area where you track your Freak Marble’s health and when it smashes into another marble, you can track how much health that marble lost. It’s a fun idea for gameplay!
Robin’s favorite way to play with these marbles is actually to put a bunch of them in their outer skin, where they can stand up and become characters. She then likes taking one of the marbles out, as her playing one, and bowling this marble towards the standing ones, knocking them over. You can also play classic marble games with them, try to roll them over an end point, and so much more. The website itself has a bunch of fun videos showing off different ways to play.
Marble Freaks is a more collectable, fun version of marbles – they aren’t made of glass and all have the same size and weight, making them an extremely fun classic toy remastered. I do like the little character cases that they come in, though it is worth noting it’s hard moving the marble once it’s in the face area, so often they end up off centre, but Robin didn’t seem to mind at all!
[Ad- gifted products] I feel like Spy Guy Fantasy is the perfect version of Spy Guy for our family. We took this tabletop game to our bi-weekly Geek Retreat board game night, where we spread it out onto the table. Amelia and Robin commented on how our board games have been on the longer side physically lately, taking up more and more of the table. This game was another that took up a big spread, with each of us sitting around it.
[Ad- gifted product] We’ve tested a few different types of frisbees in our time, so we were pretty excited to see a new frisbee in time for the summer weather! We often spend time in our town centre and at the beach, so we often have a small number of toys that we carry around in the car, just in case we want to play. The Air Square is a new contender, so we took it to the town centre to see if it was really as good as the packaging said.
[Ad- gifted product] Another Geek Retreat tabletop night has come around and this time Robin was super excited to play Don’t Panic, as it’s a game that takes batteries. She is one of those kids that when you mention we need to take batteries, she assumes it’s going to sing, light up, and just be so much more fun. Don’t Panic is a card game where you have a buzzer and timer, which is what needs the batteries, and otherwise is a pretty straightforward game.
