It’s the heat of battle. You are the last one left for your team. The enemy is just across the way. You jump up to unleash a torrent of foam at them and two darts in your blaster quits firing. You’re out of ammo. Every Nerf player’s worst fear is running out of darts in the heat of battle. Having to take out your ...
Ever wanted to go floating through Jellyfish Fields with Spongebob? With this giant jellyfish float you might just be able to blend in. Great for a fun day at the pool, lake, or even the ocean, this float lets you lie around and lazily let the water take you where it will. Measuring in at just over 4 feet wide, ...
We’ve all seen the small putting mats that you can set up in the living room or hallway to help practice your stroke. Heck, we’ve even seen tiny ones that you can set up at your feet while you’re using the restroom. Although these fun gadgets are neat, they don’t really help develop skills or make you any better at ...
Maybe you bowl a perfect 300 each time, or maybe you still need bumpers. Whichever one of these you relate to best, the Kleeger Giant Bowling Game Set is just right. Blow up inflatable pins and ball make anyplace the bowling alley and any time the time for a few frames. Great for kids and adults alike, this oversized ...
The Orbit Eliminator Four-Player Air Hockey Table from American Heritage Billiards makes a persuasive argument for one of our longest-held beliefs about our favorite barroom battle of fast-twitch reflexes: when you have a quartet of friends standing around a traditional air hockey table, one-on-one is only half as ...
Blurs Line Between Avenger And Mighty "Champion" Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok” Hulk-Out Mask reminds us of everything any kid loves about pretending to channel Bruce Banner’s surly green alter-ego and every sigh of relief we adults breathed that all the lovey-dovey business between Banner and Natasha Romanoff in ...
How do you make Connect Four even more fun? Well, we tried. Lord, did we ever try. Right around the time we tried loading the discs with volatile explosives and rimming their edges with hair-trigger contact detonators, we discovered GoSports 4-In-A-Row. Once we played an oversized take on this classic game that didn’t ...
For all the high-flying action you’ve captured with friends zipping a flying disc around, isn’t there a sweet angle you’ve been missing all this while? One even your trust GoPro can’t touch? Thanks to the Brookstone VFO Video Flying Object, you can enjoy an unprecedented first-hand account of the next time your ...
Thanks to the Puttskee, we will never again allow the decision paralysis of choosing between a day on the links and an afternoon of skeeball to condemn us to drinking three cases of Keystone Light every Sunday while launching baseballs up a ramp with croquet mallets. Perhaps that pitch to the IOC about bringing ...
As pee-pants excited as we will obviously be when the eventual advent of Hyperloop is upon us, we can’t help but feel like these astounding world-class engineering minds are settling for a lesser degree of fun. Seriously, far be it for us to look a gift horse inspired by “Futurama” in the mouth, Skywalker Adventure ...
Many moons ago, tabletop roleplaying and board games set the standard for imaginative, immersive nerdy experiences. Then came live-action roleplaying (LARP) communities, a whole new frontier for gamers with thirsts for intense adventure that only public dress-up and playacting could slake. Finally, the world was ...
Do you like being on the water, surfing, sailing, kayaking, or windsurfing? If you do, there is a new and faster way of getting around, it’s called the Jetfoiler – a motorized hydrofoil that is mounted to a surfboard. Amazingly fast, the electric motor of the hydrofoil lifts the surfboard out of the water and lets ...
There are so many kinds of tacos today, such as beef tacos, chicken tacos, pork tacos, vegi-tacos, and even fish tacos, to name a few. The reason tacos are such a popular food is obvious, they are delicious. In fact, the only bad thing about tacos is once you bite into one your almost committed to hold onto it until ...
Do you like playing in the pool? If you do, take your horse-play to the next level with the Inflat-A-Bull – its a full bull-riding experience that will get your whole family and friends in the competitive spirit, fast. Basically, it’s just like the bull riding machines you’d find in a bar, but its an inflatable ...
Take our word for it: you will never have so much fun making a beaver pop out foam balls - not this side of Tijuana, anyway. The Nerf Marshmallow Fun Beaver Blaster reassures us that better living through maximum absurdity is a concept alive and well wherever good times are had. Try as mankind might, successful ...
The love parents have for their children is boundless, basically, the sky is the limit! Well, there is one way for parents to show the extent of their love, and that is by giving them the ability to launch their dreams into creative space with this adorable rocket armchair. Rocky Rocket is a truly out-of-this-world ...
If the hideously exposed, snapping teeth of Chatterer in "Hellraiser" never fails to reduce you to giggles when you imagine him trying to carry on a conversation, then Watch Ya' Mouth: Family Edition is the hilarious kid-friendly party game for you and yours. It began with a series of amusing viral videos, became a ...
Having a dog is like having a best friend to hang-out with anytime you want, especially when it’s time to go outside and play. Traditional dog toys abound, such as tennis balls and specially designed frisbees, but there is a new throw toy in town that has dogs running around parks and backyards like never before, and ...
If you can honestly say you didn't grow up longing for your own antlered animal to throw things at whenever you wanted, then we simply come from entirely different worlds and probably should not be friends. Look, Kansas is different, OK? Thanks to the Inflatable Reindeer Antler Ring-Toss Game, we get to be 16 years ...
Everyone loves playing miniature golf, it’s the challenge of trying to putt your way through a fun obstacle course, to sink a golf ball in the hole, that makes it addicting. Well, just imagine mixing miniature golf fun with the excitement of arcade action, similar to the arcade bowling game, then you can understand ...
This is a first: Hasbro's Play-Doh Touch Shape To Life Studio app is one of those rare genuinely impressive enhancements to a sacred chunk of our childhoods that still makes us say to today's tykes, "Nope. Better you than us, kids." The free iPhone and iPad app turns Play-Doh creatures captured by either device's ...
It's a pretty simple underlying principle that upholds order throughout the Unique Hunters micronation: peace through superior firepower. We draw no distinction between our office cat Chairman Meow tipping over the document shredder to roll around in last year's bank statements and the Girl Scout troop who threatens ...
Permit us a moment to indulge our unapologetic inner Luddites: Bullseye proves that certain simple tastes in entertainment will never fail the test of time. That absolutely includes the classic combination of drinking and throwing things at other things. This magnetic bottle cap target game from True Fabrications ...
We have to offer credit where it's due: these Tampon Flasks are a nearly fool-proof way to smuggle hooch where it doesn't belong. Every order contains two packages that each contain five reusable tubes and single-use wrappers that no casual glance could distinguish from the genuine articles. Each imposter tampon ...
Every kid loves to play with water pistols, especially on hot days, but the fun stops as soon as the sun goes down and it gets dark outside. With the SplashLight the fun never has to stop, even when it gets dark outside. Introducing the first water pistol that uses ReLumes to make water actually light up, by ...
Halloween costumes are a surprisingly strong display of anyone's ingenuity and dedication. Seriously, anybody can put on a certain red and black licensed hoodie and proclaim themselves "Deadpool." Hey, we won't even claim we're opposed to that tack. However, you can always tell who stepped outside the box and ...
If you are one of those who love winter fun, particularly sledding, then you are going to want to slide into this all-year sledding marvel – the Ice Meister. Regardless of the month, or the presence of snow and ice, you can have fun sliding down not only your favorite hill, but down ‘any’ hill with this slippery ...
Humankind may be way behind schedule perfecting our damn hoverboards that "Back To The Future II" promised us, but modern engineering has made up ground by rocket=boosting just about every other mode of conveyance possible. We can already satisfy our need for speed on souped-up skateboards, rollerblades, and ...
Only so many opportunities come along in our all-too-short lives to romp inside a whale without having to eventually be pulled screaming and stinking of decaying blubber from a beached corpse. Thus, when you can offer a child such a rare gift as this Giant Whale Playhouse designed and exclusively sold by Nod, you ...
Hosting privileges for major international athletic events from the World Cup to the Olympics never fail to leave behind the same mess for the world's largest cities to deal with: what does anyone do with hundreds of millions of dollars of newly constructed athletic venues, commissioned sculptures and spectator and ...
From the grass courts of Wimbledon to the bitchin' Homecoming Weekend Beer Pong setup in the Sigma Chi basement, the fun and friendly sport of tennis thrives where a ball can fly from one end of a court or table to another. For our money, there has never been a place on Earth where a fast round of Table Tennis could ...
Trampolines are being used now more than ever before because they are a great way to get needed exercise and they are 'serious' fun to use. However, the main concern people have with them is that these are too high above the ground and require one to climb using a ladder, chair, bench or anything that is available to ...
Mind if we level with you for a moment? Here goes: you can't tame a unicorn. We don't mean that no human is so bold, strong, and noble. We're saying, you couldn't put a Pomeranian in its place, let alone a majestic, powerful horned horse of legend. Now, an eight-foot Floaty Inflatable Rainbow Unicorn? Well, we're ...
Anthropological research is a bit sparse in this area, but we're pretty sure that as far back as mankind has lived near the largest bodies of water it could find, we've never stopped looking for increasingly wild ways to dive into it. Predictably, it doesn't get much better than a big-ass bouncy platform like the Rave ...
Waging war with those neighbors who can't resist the compulsion to slather their homes in every damn Christmas light for sale in your zip code each December? Play to your own strengths this spring and even the score. This Gigantic 10-Foot Pink Flamingo is the garish gargoyle to leave no doubt who truly drives your ...
Sigh. Face it, folks. As of 2016, we have failed the "Back To The Future II" vision of humanity's advancement. So much for hoverboards. Closest we've gotten? A bunch of clowns who clearly never bothered looking up the definition of "hover" passed off exploding half-assembled Segways to people with more money ...
Want to really liven up your next friendly get-together? Anymore, we only play games that exact some stakes from players that come up on the short end of a round, Unlike the last time we played a marathon game of Monopoly for the deeds to our grandparents' houses, Hasbro's Pie Face! involves practically no strategy ...
Were pizza not so utterly delicious, we might have long since felt some lingering disappointment at a flat, circular food so tempting to our frisbee instincts but ill-suited to majestic flight. After all, we're hard-pressed to name all the already-life-affirming things - from a Pizza Car and Giant Pizza Pool Float ...
Not every safety-conscious feature enhances a toy's coolness quite like the LED lights illuminating this Hammacher Schlemmer Alpine Schlitten Sled. Even when it comes to wintertime playthings, German engineering doesn't mess around. This light-up performance sled's high-density polyethlene stands up like a champ to ...
The superficial excitement behind Professor Heinrich Bülthoff's cable-driven parallel robot simulator may mostly surround the implications to modern film and video game production, but the product of Tübingen's Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics may yield much farther-reaching breakthroughs to ...
The next time your hands go idle a bit too long for comfort, reach for a plaything 100% Unique Hunters-guaranteed NOT to hearken to warnings about sudden blindness and hairy palms. To be quite frank, we aren't completely convinced that Liquid Glass Thinking Putty isn't some kind of long-forgotten Deathly Hallow. ...
Wait, wait. What the....WALES gets an inland surf-park before we do? What the buttered thrown rolls of hell? Landlocked American aspiring kahunas will have to wait until the premiere U.S. Wavegarden opens on an undetermined future date in Austin, Texas, but in the meantime, Welsh surfers can catch tasty waves ...
Isn't it great when you realize that some of the sweetest simple joys of childhood not only still have "it" but somehow managed to grow exponentially cooler with some ambitious re-imagining? If you didn't play Lite-Brite the "right" way when you were young, you probably settled for using the back-lit pegboard's ...
Kids between the ages of 4-54 often need help directing their dirty clothes in a direction toward the nearest laundry basket. Fortunately, like pets, human males can also learn new tricks. If you have a human kid, big or small, and you want to teach them to stop throwing their dirty clothes on the ground, then you may ...
If you have a lot of house parties, you’ve probably pulled out the ole Twister game a time or two. This game is unique in that you and your friends get to be the playing pieces as you contort your body around your friends to stand the longest. The only problem is that it’s not the most outdoorsy game. Until now. ...
You laugh in the face of danger. You’re courage has yet to be defeated by any structure of man. You’ve braved the Kingda Ka in New Jersey, faced the Goliath in Illinois and survived, and may have even tamed the El Toro. Will there ever be a ride that can seriously challenge your thrill-seeking ways? Swiss engineers ...
Not everyone can have perfect balance. We all lose that in the long run as we age anyways. If you were notorious for having extreme difficulty with training wheels, roller-skates, or skateboards, then you can certainly appreciate the number of self-balancing transport devices coming out in hordes. Focus Designs has ...
Nothing more satisfying that relaxing in the dark with nothing but your own thoughts. Now add pulsating, color-changing LED lights and a 225 foot pitch black hole filled with water. Relaxation is thrown into chaos mixed with excitement and fear. This describes the new waterslide at Bad 1 in Bremen, Germany. The ...
Having trouble acting your age? Forget it, it’s just a number! Whether you’re learning how to have fun again or you’re a 10 year old stuck in a 30-something year old’s body, turn back time with an icon of your childhood. BoomCo has created a monster with their Dartsplosion, a beastly steroid-pumped version of the ...
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