The Ninja Corporation Tube Town Disney Princess Castle at Play.com is currently on sale for £34.99, a massive £45 saving off the £79.99 RRP.

• Build your castle in the lounge

We reviewed the Tube Town Disney Princess Castle here on PlayPennies over a year ago now, and our mum who tested it at the time, Selina, told us that it was a huge playhouse.

 “… the kids are able to have a proper game of house and mummy and daddy get to join in as well! The downside is that, as it takes up so much space in our flat, we aren't able to keep it up permanently.”

The houses have doors, windows and detailed pictures and design and little ones are attended by Belle and the other Disney Princesses, both inside and out.

With unique tube technology, Tube Town playhouses can be inflated through specially designed valves using the high-volume hand pump included in just a couple of minutes, according the manufacturer. Whilst inflation is extremely quick, deflation is even faster thanks to a rapid release valve.

A hand pump and ground pegs are included, and delivery is free with Play.com.

Thanks to speculator at HUKD

There’s £7 off this Disney Princess DVD Gift Pack at PC World, bringing it down to £19.99 if you buy instore, or a web exclusive of £15.99, making your savings £11,  for a DVD player and a DVD with more than just stories on it.

• Give the gift of movies with this DVD gift pack

The Disney Princess DVD Gift Pack has a DVD player which can read CDs and DVDs, as well as DVD/CD text. It has a SCART connection, a remote control, and Parental Controls so you can control what your children watch. You can also flip through your favourite photos as this DVD player can also play back JPEG photos on your TV!

The Princess Party Birthday Celebration DVD will help your little girl plan a fairytale party for all her friends. The DVD contains various Disney stories and music, and a Party Planner with check-lists, invitations, thank-you cards, recipes, colouring pages and more.  There are also eight games with the Disney princesses that shouldl keep the children busy for a while.

While some of the commenters on the HUKD thread said this should have been pink, I must admit I’m glad it’s not. With an almost 20-month old daughter, I’m a little pink’d out, if I’m honest, and think it’s great that this is neutral enough to even be used in the living room without offending the adult colour scheme.

Thanks to lucerysmum @ HUKD

A Thomas and Friends 4-piece luggage set is on sale at Littlewoods for £11.00, which is £19.00 off it's RRP of £30.00. There's also a 4-piece Disney Princess set for girls half price at £15.00.

• Gear up for summer travels with the 4-piece luggage set from Littlewoods

The Thomas and Friends set features large graphics of Thomas with the logo “Built for speed”.

The luggage is ideal for school or nursery as well as overnight travel, and comprises a trolley bag, backpack, trainer bag and a wallet or purse.

The Disney Princesses are similar, with large graphics of the girls for decoration.

The reviews for the Thomas set at Argos are pretty good with an average 4.4 star rating – although there was a complaint about the handle breaking at the first use, most are very happy with the purchase and their children love it. And by the way,  if you love the idea of the (Thomas and Friends) 4-piece luggage set, but aren't that keen on Littlewoods, you can pay a little more at Argos and get it for £13.99.

Thanks to Kelly'n'Steve at HUKD

Need a pretty storage solution for a child's room? The Disney Princesses toy chest at Boots might be just the thing you need for all those new Christmas presents. Reduced from £40.00 to £27.00, and still £39.99 at Amazon, the toy chest is already a good deal, but it's also part of the Boots 3 for 2 sale, so you could buy three and get one free or mix and match with other items.

• Organise your world like a Disney Princess with this toy chest

My daughter is still only 14 months old, so 'pickup' is really just a game mummy plays where I walk around bent double saying “Pick up toys, Little Girl, pick up toys” - a little like a hen pecking around a garden.

Of course, I'm hoping that my example will rub off and by the time she's two, she thinks tidying up is a great game, and is something she simply loves doing. Hey! This is my dream!

I wonder whether one of these would help at all? At least once everything's picked up, I can shut the lid and have some semblance of order, right?

Well, there's no success without trying and this chest pops up in seconds, revealing 40x60x30 cm space for your kids' toys, games and so on.

The toy box is part of the 3 for 2 offer and you'll receive 108 Boots Clubcard points for this purchase.

Thanks to soaps at HUKD

Disney Princess Charm Dolls are down to £4.99 from £14.99 at Toys R Us, making them only a 1/3^rd of their original price.

• Be the belle of the ball with the Disney Princess Charm Dolls

The beautiful fairy tale princesses Belle, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Jasmine and Ariel come with a dress and accessories, such as a hair brush, and their traditional wardrobe, to fill a little girls playtime with fairy tale magic.

Additionally, they also each come with a bracelet for your little one to wear. Each bracelet matches the doll it came with and can be turned into a charm bracelet by removing the charm from the princesses dress and adding it to your bracelet.

With six princesses to choose from, you can hand-pick your favourites or go for the whole collection.

The princesses are around 31cm high, and are available for home delivery and store pick-up. Delivery is expensive at £4.95, but orders over £50.00 qualify for free delivery and of course, store pick-up is free.

Thanks to swampyajc at HUKD

The Disney Princess dress up shoes at £7.47 instead of £14.97 at Tesco will make a great little gift for a little girl.

• Enter a world of fairy tale magic with the Disney Princesses

These fun play high-heel shoes are designed in the unmistakable styles of the Disney Princesses, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Ariel, Belle ad Jasmine. The pink, red, blue and yellow shoes have bows, fluffy furry tufts, and pictures of the princesses that decorate their open toed prettiness.

The Disney Princess dress up shoes come in a handy carry case to keep them neat and tidy, and the case has a handle for easy dragging around the house.

The parents who've reviewed this on the Tesco website have generally been happy with it – I guess if you're expecting toy quality shoes in a cardboard box, this set won't disappoint and will provide hours of fun. But don't expect long lasting quality – your Princess won't be handing this down to her grand daughter – and you won't be disappointed!

These also match the Disney Princess dress up dresses. If you have a Tesco clubcard, you'll still receive the full price worth of points.

Thanks to clgay at HUKD

*baby feet picture - Sawyer Party of 5

I've always loved the idea of a tree house in the back garden for my children to spend hours in every summer. Of course, the reality of a first floor maisonette in London means not only do I have no garden and no tree, but the three months a year where the children could play in the treehouse, hardly seem to make the investment worth it!

It's great then that The Ninja Corporation have recently launched their new range of playhouses in the UK. These playhouses are perfect for indoor or outdoor use, which in turn is perfect for cold and wet winter days.

The Tube Town range has arrived in the UK and we were lucky enough to be able to get one in to the PlayPennies HQ to review. The range currently consists of two houses – the Disney Princess Castle and the Gingerbread house, although there's a Dragon's Lair rumoured for release in the UK around January or February. We handed the Gingerbread House right over to PlayPennies mum Selina to see what her family thought of it.

“Well,” she started, “there are no half-measures here - this is a proper house for kids, it's huge!” Selina's not wrong. The house is 135cm high by 90cm wide and 125cm long – larger than some living rooms in houses I've lived in!

“As it's so big,” says our testing mum, “the kids are able to have a proper game of house and mummy and daddy get to join in as well! The downside is that, as it takes up so much space in our flat, we aren't able to keep it up permanently.”

The houses have doors, windows and detailed pictures and designs, so with the very pink Disney Princess houses, little ones are attended by Belle and the other Disney Princesses, both inside and out. The Gingerbread House, on the other hand, is still pink, but decidedly less so. It is surrounded by lollipops, cupcakes and – yes – gingerbread men.

With unique tube technology, Tube Town playhouses can be inflated through specially designed valves using the high-volume hand pump included in just a couple of minutes, according the manufacturer. Whilst inflation is extremely quick, deflation is even faster thanks to a rapid release valve.

Selina partially agrees, “Luckily it's not too difficult to set up and take down.” However, she does think that the 'couple of minutes' to inflate is a bit of a stretch. “Depending on how strong you are, I would say about 5 to 10 minutes.

On top of that, you need a good bit of force to inflate it fully, otherwise it just kind of collapses. I personally had to wait until my husband got home to set it up for me. Deflating on the other hand is simply a case of pulling the plug.”

The house is designed to be suitable for indoor and outdoor use and comes with pegs to secure it to the ground on windy days too, but Selina isn't sure about it remaining outdoors.

“The Gingerbread House is designed for indoor and outdoor use and comes with 4 pegs to secure it to the ground. The inflatable tubing seems very sturdy and that's promising. I don't have a garden, so only

used it indoors but ours already has a couple of holes in the roof where it brushed against the edge of the tumble dryer so I wouldn't want to test it against the elements.”

According to the manufacturers, the lightweight design offers immense flexibility when playing outdoors – if it begins to rain, they can simply be deflated and re-inflated indoors or even picked up and brought inside.

As Selina mentioned, each Tube Town playhouse comes with its own storage bag for easy carrying between friends, child minders, grandparents and even holidays.

Selina's final thoughts?

“The kids love it and it appeals to me as a product specifically because it's easily transportable. It's not fiddly to take down, it's lightweight and even comes with it's own matching carry bag.”

The Gingerbread House costs £49.99. Stockists to be announced soon!

The Disney Princess Castle is priced at £79.99 and assembled is slightly bigger than the Gingerbread House at 185 cm high x 110 cm wide x 150 cm long – possibly better for a garden or empty cellar than a living room, but great for imaginative play. Stockists include Amazon.co.uk and Toys R Us.

The Dragon's Lair will be available in January or February at Early Learning Centre online, price TBD.