Avoiding another 'Soggy bottom' with Netflix.

We've reached that point in the year again where the smell of bread and cakes is filling many of the homes in the UK and social media is blowing up with talks of The great British Bake off. Personally I'm not a fan, so while Mrs M and Seth had their weekly bonding session this week, I popped my headphones on and did some work on the blog, hoping to avoid the sound of Marry Berry's 'soggy bottom'. 

As i gazed across the room i smiled from ear to ear when i realised that that adorable mini version of myself had the same idea and was sitting contently sporting a dinosaur T-shirt, new trucker cap and catching up on the recent Netflix children's show Dinotrux.

Part dinosaur and part truck, whats not to like? Dinotrux is every boys dream and the first season, based on the books by Chris Gall is available to view on Netflix now.

Bigjigs Play Patrol Agents take on mission 3: Making a creative video review.

Becoming Bigjigs Toys Play Patrol agents has been great, the boys have loved being able to review their wonderful toys. Each mission has been a little adventure and as you may well know, we love adventure. Play Patrol mission Three came two weeks ago and this time round was something a little different. Our mission was to create a video (which is really out of my comfort zone) and be as creative as possible. I had a few great idea's but as you can imagine with two young excited boys it was difficult to get them to perform at the level i needed, i put this down to them both being method actors.

Anyhow after changing my idea half a dozen times i finally got the video finished using some videos i had taken over the last few days and some photos from previous missions. So for your enjoyment Bigjigs Toys Play Patrol mission Three:

All toys featured in the video can be purchased at http://shop.bigjigstoys.co.uk/

"Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather."

There was always something quite magical when i was younger about taking my action figures outside and playing with them in the grass, especially if the grass was a little longer than it should have been. I used to tie string on the handle of my bedroom window and peg the other end into the grass outside so that i could get my Star Wars figures to zip wire out it was so much fun.

Once outside i would dig holes and put my figures in them and fill them back in, leaving them only visable from the waist up and sometimes just the arm, leaving the garden looking like a battlefield of fallen soldiers. This i only did with the few figures i had duplicates of or ones that i wasn't emotionally attatched to. Seth has a collection of Action man dolls for doing just that which i have brought from various charity shops. Theres always action men in our local Charity shops, Seth's not bothered about them which makes them great for playing with outside and perfect for targets when we have the Nerf guns out.

We had brought Opeie and Seth an Imaginext van each from Toys R Us which we had put away for Christmas but it seems that now Mrs M is more impatient than me about giving the boys their toys. So after some VERY good behavior from Seth including always looking after his little brother and being generally lovely, Mrs M decided we should give him a treat from the pirates, So we put the van somewhere in plain sight and Mrs M said "i think i just heard the waves" (this is how we let Seth know that we think the pirate ship has been) so excitedly he ran off round the house searching for his booty.

Well as always Seth was very appreciative of his gift and looked up into the sky and said "thank you pirates" in a very jolly voice. The weather was lovely so we got a blanket and took all the Batman toys out in to the garden, and due to some lazyness on my part the grass was slightly longer than it should have been... Excellent.

I always think that when your playing with your toys outside it makes the role playing more realistic and who doesn't love sitting out side when the weather is nice. Plus you have the added bonus of random vines and plants that can wrap around figures stopping them in their tracks, great if your playing as poison ivy. Everything in the garden can be part of our play. climbing frame, slide, the figures can even grapple to the washing line and then crawl across it. The possibilities are endless.

When Seth wrote his last post (allow me to break the ice my name is freeze...) he mentioned his hammer car which i realised at the time he had had for a while but it hadn't been mentioned in any of my imaginext posts. He is right though it does look a little like a shoe. Its great for beating down the caped crusader though (it always seems to be the good guys taking a beating).

Opeie really enjoyed playing outside with all the toys although he has a tendancy to throw things about so when we packed up to go in i was left hunting around the garden for figures. As usual the Batcave had been taken over by villains and Batman and Robin had been locked up in Arkham Asylum. I have a feeling Seth is going to end up being a fan of the baddies like me. Especially when it comes to DC as the villains have so much more depth to them. 

When we went to see Batman live last year the Joker completely stole the show and Batman was left just looking like an extra in 'Joker Live' but that's a post for another time.

I'm quite sure there will be another Imaginext post soon as its all the boys want to play with at the moment, although i am waiting for star wars to rear its ugly head again. I'm hoping i have a few weeks before Seth's back at school and Williams Jedi talk starts influencing Seth again.

Previous Imaginext Post's:

"Allow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well. For it's the chilling sound of your doom."

"Still they cry out for him... for their hero and savior... but he is broken... and Gotham is mine!"

"Don't adjust your sets. Welcome to the Oswald Cobblepot school of driving. Gentlemen, start your screaming!"

 

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." 

 

 

"Allow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well. For it's the chilling sound of your doom."

It's new toy day at home, actually im saying that like its a rare occurrence. It seems that Star Wars has become a thing of the past,well at least until the start of the new school year. Its amazing how not having William about 5 days a week filling his head with nonsense about the force has changed Seth's perception of what it is he likes. (I'm now kind of hoping that this new found shunning of Skywalker and his friends isn't going to last as i have a big box of figures collected for Christmas). Maybe he just needs to be subjected to William in small doses. 

Its all about Batman at the moment so ive been taking full advantage of the Imaginext 3 for 2 offer at our local Toys R Us. The boys had had some pocket money so we took them to blow it all on the good stuff,Toys. Opeie fell asleep on the way so i sat with him in the car while Seth and Mrs M went and had a mooch. They came back to the car and Mrs M said they had picked some and put them behind the till.Oops!

Clever me hadn't told Mrs M that i had already brought a few pieces for Christmas and Seth had picked those exact ones, so there was an awkward moment for a second when i was the villain saying no I'm sorry you cant have those. Ill explain at Christmas that the reason why was because Santa had phoned us to say he had got them already for them.

I managed to talk him into picking some others that were equally as fun and to be fair Seth isn't spoilt ,even though i said no he is still appreciative of everything he gets. Because we have brought him up knowing how lucky he is that he has such nice things and parents that devote most of their time to him and his brother.

Anyway enough of my babbling, Seth wants to write about his toys today so ill leave you in his capable hands.

"On Sunday me and Opeie had been good boys so we checked our money boxes to see if we had enough money for some toys, we didn't but mommy and Pauly said they would put some more pounds in. we went to Toys R Us and i went in with mommy, mommy said we could have 2 big trucks a joker truck and a two face truck and a Batplane. we put them by the till and then Pauly came in and said i couldn't have 2 big trucks but i didn't feel sad or anything. then we went to look at the batman things together and we got the Mr freeze set and the Joker bin lorry and i was allowed to keep the plane. i was really happy with what me and Opeie got."

"My Mr freeze figure came with a gun its for freezing batman and robin or any policemen that come to get Mr freeze. he came with an ice lair that has a computer, he uses it so he knows when batman and robin and the police come to get him and also for his evil plans. there's also a frozen shaped thing that the goodies can go in and it looks like they are frozen. The Mr freeze character is my favourite part because i wanted the figure for Opeie's jail cell because there is a Mr freeze on one of the doors and all of the jail doors have the pictures of the villains on."

"The jokers bin lorry is cool and the bit with the hook goes down when you put the jokers feet in the twisty bit. i think its funny because its got no bin, i like to put all the batman figures on the back and sometimes Opeie's little cars, their also batman. sometimes i put jokers hammer car on there, i think it looks like a shoe. the thing i like most about it is i can put all the batmen on it and robin can drive it. They drive it because the baddies always take over the Batcave. Bane is the leader of the baddies and he always tells the joker and two face to beat up batman. Id really like the two face big truck so I'm going to be really good and hope i will get it for my birthday its on November the 1st."

"The plane has got a finger push up bit that shoots out disc's from the front and sometimes i like to put some other batman figures holding on to the blue bits so they can stand on the wings. It came with a different batman figure which means i have got 5 different batman's. i have lost a blue one, i think he has been caught and thrown in a crazy hospital because someone saw him walking around talking crazy that he's the real batman. The Batplane goes on the side of the Batcave, it has a little stubby bit that fits in the side. Later on were going to have a Batman battle, the baddies are going to take over the Batcave, Joker says... actually we will leave that for another blog post"

(seth wanted desperately to use an ellipses (...) as he has been learning about them at school)

Another great piece by Seth if i do say so myself. Well the figures are being set up as i type so i should end it at that and go and decide whether i am one of the good guys today or a trouble making baddie but we all know im going to be a baddie, thats what im here for mwahahahahaha...