Disclosure: we attended a screening of LEGO DC: Batman Family Matters as the guests of Warner Bros. and were gifted LEGOLAND tickets. We’re big fans of all things LEGO and DC, so it was fantastic to attend a special LEGO Batman event at the weekend. We travelled up to LEGOLAND Windsor for what proved to …
It’s been a while since I wrote a post about Amelie, so it’s high time for an update. She is now 17 months old and continues to make her presence felt at every turn. The most noticeable development recently has been her speech. The baby babble is starting to sound less like scribble talk and …
When my sons were closer to the age my daughter is now, life was simpler. It wasn’t perfect of course, but we generally got on with each new stage with minimal fretting. It was easy working out the right answer to each new parenting challenge. The latest one we’ve found ourselves facing, though, has us in two minds. We find ourselves questioning …
If your kids are as obsessed with superheroes as much as Dylan and Xander are, you’re going to want to have a look at this. DC Kids has launched a new series of cartoons featuring a plethora of DC characters including everybody’s favourite dark knight, Batman, as well as the likes of Wonder Woman and …
Dylan and Xander have both been getting more and more into LEGO lately and I’ve looking forward to them getting into video games too (I know, I should be careful what I wish for) so I was absolutely delighted to be offered a brand new LEGO Dimensions set for review. This ‘toys-to-life’ format game brings together …
Who doesn’t like superheroes eh? There seem to be so many of them around these days and, thanks to the Super Hero Me app by DC Friends, you can now create your own – including their name, costume and, of course, superpowers. I had a go and came up with Captain Meerkat – not very menacing for a bad guy, …
Big news. I took a dip in Lake You recently. Yes, I actually managed to get some Xbox time in. And, yes, I’ve only gone for the whole rather vomit-inducing ‘Lake You’ thing because I can’t find another free image that sums up this post. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve found adapting …
I recently completed an Xbox game that, it’s fair to say, I became a little obsessed with. The title in question was the excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum. As well as enjoying every last minute of it, I realised that there are a few at-best tenuous parallels that I thought I could draw between it and …