The Peanuts Movie is coming out on November 6. This is the first full feature movie for the Peanuts gang. This movie will feature Charlie Brown and the Little Red-Haired Girl. Charlie Brown will of course fall for her. But will she like him back or does Charlie Brown just have to wait for the day for her to notice him.
A new set of McDonalds Happy meal toys has been released to promote The Peanuts Movie. The set includes Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Woodstock and Peppermint Patty. These toys are large, about 3" tall and the perfect size for displaying. They are perfect for adult and kid collectors alike! Take a look at the video to see which one is your favorite. My favorite is the spinning Snoopy.
Is anyone still having trouble finding Shopkins or looking to start collecting?? If so, then head over to your nearst Costco and get some of these Super Shopper Packs. Each pack contains 26 Season 3 Shopkins! 4 of those shopkins are actually exclusive to the Super Shopper Packs with new color schemes. At $14.99, these packs are such a great deal! Usually Shopkins are $1-$1.5 each depending on the type of packs you purchase.
There are 6 variations of these packs but even just having one or two will get you started in having an awesome collection. However, if you buy all 6 you will have tons of duplicates. Which you can then trade to complete your collection, win - win :)
Head on over to my channel to see one of the packs unboxed.
With the new Minions movie coming out, McDonalds is promoting it with a set of 12 Minion toys. These toys make minion sounds when they are tapped or knocked over. Each of the Minions has it's own set of sounds.
However, with one Minion in particular, the Caveman Minion, there has been some controversy regarding what he is actually saying. Many parents did a second take when they heard the toy, they thought they hear him swearing.
Personally, I did not notice it until this came up on the news. I've had it for quite a few days now and never thought he was cursing. Funny Minion noises, yes. Swearing, no... But now that I'm listening for it, I can hear it. Officially, the Minion Caveman toy makes three sounds — “para la bukay,” ”hahaha” and “eh eh.”
I don't think it's a huge deal. Kids who don't know the words would not pick it up from this toy. Kids who already know the words will probably get a kick out of owning a toy that may sound like it's swearing. Naughty Minion!
Maybe someone in the Minion recording room had a little too much fun or maybe it's just all in our heads. If you want to hear it for yourself, check out my unboxing video. The minion in question is Minion #5 at time stamp 2:44
Shopkins Season 3 is finally out in the United States. It first rolled out on June 1st but two weeks later it is still super hard to find. Since I know for sure that Toys R Us, Target and Walmart carry Shopkins, I made my rounds to all the stores around me on the first week and was not able to find a single Shopkin, season 2 or 3.
I went to Toys R Us right went it opened on one of their truck days. The first time, nothing. The store associate told us at the door that they only had a delivery of the Season 2 playsets. Regardless, the handful of us still went in to see for ourselves. We then stood in the aisle, scanning the shelves in case we were somehow misled and a huge case of Shopkins Season 3 would magically appear.
Then I went on a Toys R Us truck day in the middle of the week, Wednesday. I got there about 10 minutes early and waited for the doors to open. There were a few moms in line too. They had gotten to known each other over the past week while waiting for the store to open on truck days. One of the moms showed me a picture of their collection, it was huge, there must be hundreds of season 1 and season 2 Shopkins. She had been looking daily for Season 3 too but haven't had any luck. The doors soon opened and we made a beeline for the Shopkins aisle.
And we saw Shopkins, 2 shelves full of season 3 and 2 more shelves full of season 2. It was an amazing sight. Blind baskets, 12 pack, 6 pack, play sets, shopping carts, they had it all.
The half dozen of us early-birds started looking for the ones we wanted. I felt a little greedy when I grabbed an entire case of the blind baskets, but then I noticed that there were a few more cases of Season 3 and at least 20 cases of Season 2, and still a whole row of 12 and 6 packs so at least there are still plenty left. I figured it would be a waste of time to come every three days to stand in line for the door to open just to grab 5 blind baskets at a time.
15 minutes later, half of the season 3 were gone. Season 2 was mostly untouched since most of the early shoppers were there for season 3. But at this rate I'd imagine that all of season 3 would be gone in the next few hours and season 2 would most likely follow within the next day or two.
Hopefully they will continue to get large shipments of Shopkins for the next few months, because with the way they were flying off the shelves, I think there is still a shortage :)
So here are my lessons learned from the past 2 weeks:
Toys R US
Ask an associate about their truck day schedule.
Inquire about the number of people that typically wait for the store to open.
Ask to see if there is a limit on how many you can buy.
Arrive when the store opens on a truck day. You might have to go earlier to wait in line if your store gets small deliveries and there are high demand.
I wouldn't recommend calling first to see if they have it, most likely they would be gone by the time you arrive.
Online - Sometimes they have Season 3 on sale, usually they are sold out within a day.
Target
I have not seen any Shopkins Season 3 at Target.
I find that Target is generally unreliable in terms of predicting when they'd get a shipment.
An associate might offer to scan the SKU on their handhelds and see if nearby Targets have them in stock but usually that number is inaccurate. One Target told me a nearby target had 120 units in stock, when I went there 10 mins there, they didn't have any.
Online - I have not seen Season 3 sold online.
Walmart
I have not seen any Shopkins Season 3 at Walmart.
I hear that some stores only limit you to 2 items.
Amazon
Unfortunately, the prices on Amazon are really high, I wouldn't buy them online if you have the other stores nearby.
Ebay
Also priced pretty high.
Needless to say, I'm loving these little guys, check out the unboxing video of my first Shopkins ever!
Robot Turtles is a clever and fun board game where kids have fun playing and yet at the same time they are learning programming concepts that they could potentially use as future software engineers.
The game is colorful and well made with beautifully made cards. The cards provide simple actions such as move forward, turn left, turn right, shoot laser. To play, the player uses the card to write code that essentially provides directions to the computer (aka parents) to move their turtle pieces to the gem.
For young players you simply just see who can move their turtle to their gem first. For more advanced play you can set up the board with ice and wood obstacles. The programmer will then have to write code to instruct the computer to navigate the turtle around or shoot through the obstacles to get to the gem.
There is also a bug card where you can 'undo' your last move by hitting the bug. This is a good way to show that bugs are errors that needs to be corrected in order for the program to complete it's mission.
This game teaches kids to think logically in order to provide the code/instructions to their turtle's computer.
We play the simple basic version with my daughter and she loves the noises we make whenever the turtle gets stuck. She even takes turns being the computer and moves the turtles according to our code.
I like how the board game allows the family to play together without the use of any electronics or fancy gadgets. It allows for a lot of back and forth conversation as the players plots out the moves and the computer responds to it.
I think it's a great game for kids 4 to 12. After playing it I can see how it is the most backed board game in KickStarter history. I got my copy at Amazon. Check out the video below to see it in action!
See it, hear it, repeat. Learning sight words is a great way to get into reading. We have another video featuring the primary dolch sightwords. This time we have Avengers mini figurines in our surprise eggs!
