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Categories / Kids, Toys and Games

Retro arcade game baby grow

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Babygrow

Pac-man seems to gets everywhere, from seating to a carpet and even a washing-up sponge. Well, now you can inflict the gaming classic on your kids with the retro game arcade baby grow.

It's a simple but instantly recognisable design and comes from the range of The Green Apple, a company who specialize in eco-friendly and ethically sourced products. This baby grow is made from organic cotton, so the kid has got some twenty-first century green credentials as well as the 80s look.

The babygrow costs £19.

Buy it from Bouf

Categories / Homeware, Toys and Games

Tetris Mirror by Sonar Ozenc

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Tetris mirror

We've featured many Tetris-inspired products before, from chocolates to tiles. Here's another way the game can creep off the Game Boy and into your home: the Tetris Mirror. 

Designed by Sonar Ozenc, it's made from laser-cut acrylic and comes in thirteen panels, using the shapes so familiar from the game. It's then up to you whether you display them as one rectangle or break it down into the different parts. The temptation would be to keep re-arranging them for optimum (theoretical) points! 

The mirror is available in silver or gold and costs £39.85. 

Buy it from The Hidden Art Shop

Categories / Kids, Toys and Games

The space hopper returns in 21st century-style at Habitat

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Silver hopper
The space hopper remains the iconic toy of the 70s. It continually resurfaces in slightly modified versions – under other names and in other sizes. Now Habitat have given it a suitably 21st century makeover, which they've called 'Big Tig'. 

The famous orange, and the kangaroo design is nowhere to be seen and instead the hopper is produced in a quite appealing space age shiny silver. The handles ensure it also retains its main attraction: being able to bounce around on it!

The hopper costs £12.

Buy it online 

Categories / Kids, Toys and Games

Fuzzy-felt fridge magnets

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Fuzzyfeltmagnets
Fuzzy-felt is something that probably popped up in most people's childhoods as, after all, it started being produced in 1950. Here's a chance to remember the creativity of your youth as the toy is now available as fridge magnets. 

The magnet set includes over 100 felt pieces made in the three primary colours and the classic shapes that you'll remember. From children to animals to transport, they're all included. 

The set costs £9.49 and makes going to get your milk out the fridge a whole lot more fun. 

Buy them from the Lazybone website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Revolution Iqube

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Revolution Iqube

Looking for a stocking filler for the revolutionary in your life? How about keeping them quiet for a couple of hours with the Revolution Iqube game?

The game is made from four perspex cubes covered with a retro Chinese propaganda poster. The aim is to have all cubes side-by-side, showing the same image on each cube on all four of the long four sides. It's a good job that the poster used is pretty striking as, with apparently 40,000 different combinations and only one solution, you'll likely be looking at them for a fairly long time. 

For £10 it certainly makes a change from the challenges of the Rubik's cube. 

Buy it from Cox and Cox