The Scalextric Formula 1 C3171A McLaren MP4 12C Hamilton/Button car set is down from £80 to £72 on the website. However, if you add this item to your basket it will appear as £40 and checkout as £40, a huge saving of 50% off the original price.

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The set is presented in a limited edition twin pack with the McLaren MP4-12C slot car set specially selected by Formula One Champions Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button. These cars are highly detailed and feature working lights, easy change pick-ups, and a Magnatraction system that will keep them firmly on the track.

These are suitable for kids aged eight and up and you only get the two cars in the kit, nothing else. There is no track or anything here. You are paying a ton of cash for two limited edition cars so it’s a cool save for anyone who loves Scalextric and Formula One.

Thanks to capriboycraig at HUKD!

I'd forgotten about camcorders. And digital cameras for that matter. Ever since I first got my smartphone, I just stopped using them. Why would you need to carry a separate recording device around with you when you have one on your phone, already in your pocket?

Panasonic showed me why. The company sent in the Panasonic HC-V520 full high-definition (HD) camcorder for us to review. Read on to find out more!

John Lewis is selling the 7 inch Kurio tablet for under £100 which is, I think, rather brilliant. This tablet has been designed specifically for kids and boasts a wide range of apps and features to boost their education and plenty more. For a bigger screen you’ll pay £150, so for the sake of three inches, this is a brilliant saving.

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The Kurio on sale at John Lewis will get delivered for free and is loved by kids and trusted by parents. This is the ultimate Android tablet for families. Well, that’s what it says on the packaging anyway. The tablet is pre-loaded with games, videos, educational content, ebooks, and cool things for everyone to enjoy.

You will get Angry Birds, World of Goo, Doodle Jump, Where’s My Water, Cut the Rope, and Fruit Ninja included. There is Wi-Fi, support for Flash, front and rear cameras make it easy to snap shots, you can even shoot videos and watch them. Nice.

Thanks to saibahn at HUKD!

The Nintendo Wii U consoles have been, in my humble opinion, way overpriced for way too long. I am delighted to see that finally the consoles are coming down to a decent price point and ASDA is leading the charge. You can now get the Wii U 8GB white console at £149. Nice.

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The Nintendo Wii U console basic pack used to cost around £200, now you are saving a tidy £50 for the console itself. You get £.149 cashback if you buy it with your ASDA Money Credit Card too. Bit of a rubbish cashback, but hey.

The cost of delivery is free if you go with their standard 3-5 days, and you can take advantage of all the new Wii U games that are coming out at the moment. This is a superb deal and I’m definitely going to be taking advantage of it. I mean, I have wanted to play ZombieU since I heard about it! Although that’s not for the kids…

Thanks to prometheus24 at HUKD!

Let your kids learn something new every day with the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Gaming System. The Toy Shop has this cute educational toy on sale for £29.99. It’s been reduced from £59.99 so you’re saving a lovely 50%.

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The LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Gaming System has high-res graphics and a colour touch-screen that kids will love using to play exciting learning games. In fact, they'll be having so much fun they won't even realise how much the activities are boosting their reading, maths and science skills.

The gaming system comes with a Leaplet card so you can download one of 20 learning apps and get playing straight away, but there are loads more games, activities, videos and e-books available online. You can also go on adventures with your favourite TV and film characters by using Leapster Explorer games cartridges which are sold separately.

It’s great for mum and dad as they can go online and check what games the kids are playing and what skills they're picking up.

Use this Leapfrog promotional code to get 20% off any app in the Shop by Skill, Reading and Writing sections in the App Centre of the Leapfrog site. These awesome apps are aimed at helping kids of all ages to learn to read and write and to improve their vocabulary.

Click here to use your Leapfrog promotional code

•     Discount: £20% off reading and writing apps
•     Promotional code: READING
•     Expires: 30 April 2013

To use this promotional code on any of the reading and writing apps simply select the apps you would like in the Shop by Skill, Reading and Writing section in the App Centre and then go to the checkout page. There’s a box on the right that asks for your promotional code. Put in the code READING and you’ll get a lovely 20% off all those apps.

I went to the Leapfrog site and tried the code out on the Disney-Pixar Brave eBook that was £5. The eBook teaches listening and reading comprehension, phonics and a few others. With the 20% discount it came to £4, well worth it if you’re planning on stocking up or looking for kid’s gifts.

Happy reading!

Save £12.00 on the cute Accelerator Little Learner Laptop from The Works. This cool kid’s laptop has loads of features and activities and while it normally retails for £24.99 The Works have it on sale for £12 .99 so you’ll save an awesome 48%, excellent!

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With technology the way it is today and the rate at which it’s advancing your kid’s probably already know more than you about computers, the internet and anything that involves screens and a remote. Whether they’ve already hi-jacked your laptop or iPad or not it’s probably a good idea to get them started early.

You can get them ready for the gadget world with the Oregon Acientific Accelerator Little Learner Laptop. Get ready to play and learn while having fun the whole time. The laptop helps kids to learn numbers, shapes and colours and to boost their spelling and vocabulary. There are eight colourful double sided activity cards with fun illustrations for them to learn from and keep them busy.

Save a whopping and phenomenal 87% on the super cool Griffin Slap Watch For iPod Nano 6G. The snapping strap comes in bright pink and WH Smith has reduced it from £14.99 to £2.00 so you’re saving £12.99, awesome.

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The Griffin Slap Watch for the iPod Nano 6G is available in hot pink and is perfect for conveniently taking your iPod Nano with you wherever you go. The pink slap watch is the ideal way to show off the Nano 6G and the thick silicone band is the funkiest way to protect your Nano.

The Griffin Slap Watch is packed with really cool features. The flexible spring-steel band wrapped in soft silicone snaps securely around your wrist to keep your iPod Nano close at hand. You can take your iPod running, to work, to school or anywhere else without having to worry about it falling out of your pocket or having it nicked out of your bag. The thick silicone frame protects your Multi-Touch display, volume controls and dock connector while the frame covers the volume and sleep/wake buttons with protective silicone but still allows touch-through control of your iPod Nano.

Happy slapping!

Save a massive 72% or £26.00 on the Paper Jamz Red Pro Series Microphone and Effects Amp from The Works. This cool microphone and amp lets you sing along to your favourite songs and while it normally sells for £35.99 it’s now just £9 .99, awesome!

• Click here for sing along fun from The Works*

Never miss a beat with the Paper Jamz Pro Series microphone and amp and sing your heart out with five special modes to give you that extra boost. You can add your own track or use the two preloaded tracks and sing along or alone to your favourite songs from your own library.

The microphone and amp have cool features such as pitch perfect to correct your pitch and sound like a pro or chorus and harmony to add extra voices to make you sound like you're part of a group or duet. Melody match analyses and tunes your voice to create a perfect melody and you can try auto-vibrato to add vibrato to your voice.

Whether you're alone or with friends and family you can always guarantee a good time with the Paper Jamz microphone and amp set.

Save £5.00 on the Hamleys Walkie Talkie Headset from Hamleys. This set has been reduced from £20.00 to £15.00 so now the kids can chat to each other over walkie talkies while they spend the summer doing covert ops in the garden at 25% off.

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Summer is nearly here and the kids are going to be on holiday for weeks. Anything that will keep them busy for hours and having a ball outside is worth whatever it costs!

“Team Leader to base camp, do you copy?” Adventure awaits the kids with these cool Walkie Talkie headsets. They can stay in contact during mock battles, sieges or pretend army play. With real time, two way communication, they can even talk and listen at the same time.

This super cool set includes two hands free walkie talkies with two channel handsets. The set needs four AA Batteries which are not included so don’t forget to stock up on some of those, you don’t want to run out and ruin the fun, they’ll make you pay for it!

Save a super ridiculous and crazy £65.00 on the My Life Console Value Pack from the Toy Shop. The value pack has everything you need to enter the world of My Life and has been reduced from £74.99 to £9.99, wow!

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The My Life Console Value Pack has everything you need to customise your own character in this cool handheld game. You can create your person and choose her look and personality, everything from face shape, eye colour and skin tone to clothes and accessories are all customisable. Then she's ready to become a part of the My Life virtual world and go shopping, meet friends and even keep pets.

This fantastic value set contains everything you'll need to enter the amazing world of My Life. The pack contains the My Life console, My Life fashion bag and six My Magic cards. The My Life console needs three AAA batteries to work, which are not included.

Take advantage of this great deal for all those gaming fans.

Get 50% off this cool car from Hamleys. The Hamleys Ford F150 Remote Control Car was £20.00 but has now been reduced to £10.00 saving you a lovely £10.00.

• Click here to speed away with a car for half the price at Hamleys*

Speed around the lounge, garden or even down the road with this super cool remote controlled car. This awesome remote control car has a multi-function design which means it has forward, reverse, left and right functions, awesome. The car is made to a 1:12 scale replicating the actual car design and colours of a Ford F150. Boy and girls alike are going to absolutely love it and love racing around the place with it.

The Ford F150 World Rally Car requires seven AA batteries which unfortunately aren’t included so don’t forget to go get those too; the kids will want them as soon as the box is opened.

Put your foot down and race, race, race with this wicked remote control Ford F150 World Rally Car from Hamleys, you’d better put the breakables away mums.

This is a very fancy, very easy and very expensive toy, but it is one that I highly recommend for parents who are trying to get themselves into a place of fitness and health. At the moment Amazon* have the Polar FT4 heart rate monitor and watch set down from the usual price of £74.50 to £51.82, which is a nice saving of £22.68, and a great opportunity to get this rather cool gadget.

I’m not going to lie, this set takes a bit of getting used to. I keep forgetting to set it up and put it on before I go out for my morning run. This has a lot to do with the fact that my morning run involves my trying to sneak out of the house like a cat ninja and if I don’t keep the Polar close at hand, I can’t wear it.

This device has been designed to show your fitness improving based on your heart rate, shows the calories you are burning, sets up your target zone based on your age, a back light, and a date and weekday indicator. It is also water resistant up to 30m, which is very handy indeed. It is very easy to put on and use – you will need a maximum of ten minutes to programme the Polar FT4 heart rate monitor – although I don’t like the fact that there are so many fiddly components as I keep thinking, “Aargh, I am going to lose this.”  One of the smallest parts is the most vital!

One of the biggest selling points of the Polar FT Heart Rate Monitor is the fact that it tells you when you are training in the fat burning zone so you can moderate your speed or effort to get the most out of your training programme. One of the biggest down sides (and for me this is big when you consider the price) is that it doesn’t tell you the distance you have covered.

The chest strap is comfortable, the watch efficient and easy to use and the water resistance a big sell. It gets 8/10.

You can get the Noisy Norman Monster Soft Toy for less than half price at Argos. This cute and furry monster isn’t really scary at all, the more you squash him the noisier and crazier he becomes. He was originally priced at £19.99 but has now been reduced to a lovely £7.99.

• Click here for Noisy Norman from Argos*

Noisy Norman is a really cute and fun interactive toy for the little ones. He’s so much fun they won’t be able to put him down. As you squeeze and play with Norman he makes more and more noise and gets crazier and crazier. You can squash his head and body in all different directions to get him to make noises and go crazy. He’s guaranteed to get a laugh.

Noisy Norman the lovable monster is 20 x 20 x 28cm in size and needs three AAA batteries which are unfortunately not included. Get the kids a cute and cuddly soft toy with a bit of a difference with Noisy Norman the monster from Argos.

Griffin Technology have a great range of cases and other accessories for iPhones, iPads and other devices. They have now teamed up with Crayola to make some rather nifty looking accessories aimed at younger users. Although to be honest, I think that they'll have a lot of attraction for older users too!

We received the Crayola Case Creator, and the Crayola My Phones earbuds, for the iPhone 4. You can read on to find out a) what these are exactly, and b) whether they were any good.

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Save a whopping £84.99 on the Pink Karaoke Screen Party that’s now half price at Toys R Us. The home karaoke machine that comes in a cool bright pink was originally £169.98.

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This is awesome! The kids can have their very own karaoke machine at home. Imagine the cool parties they can have and how much fun it’ll be when they get together with their friends to practice. They’ll be able to sing along to lyrics as they appear on the built-in colour screen just as you would at a karaoke night. They can even connect an MP3 player and sing along to their favourite tunes.

The Pink Karaoke Screen Party features a top loading programmable CD/CDG karaoke machine, a built in colour VGA video camera to see yourself on screen and a built in Colour TFT screen. There are two microphone inputs with echo and volume control along with a built in amplifier and speaker. You can connect it to a large screen and home hi-fi and to any MP3 player. Lastly you’ll the dynamic microphone and CDG demo disc too.

If you’re can’t get the kids a real kitty then maybe you can make it up to them with an interactive fluffy toy one. Cherry the Cat miaows and does all sorts of other things just like a real cat. She was £59.99 but is £23.68 at Amazon today so you’ll be saving a whopping £36.31 (61%).

• Click here for Cherry the Cat from Amazon*

Cherry the Cat is pretty life-like, she makes real movements such as blinking her eyes and twitching her ears, she miaows and makes chewing noises when your give her the fish biscuit that comes with her. If she’s not hungry, she will refuse the food. She also loves attention, if you stroke her back she swishes her tail, miaows and purrs happily. She even gets scared, when she hears a loud noise she closes her eyes, her ears go forward and her body trembles, amazing.

When it’s time to sleep Cherry the cat swishes her tail and starts to close her eyes, drifting gently to sleep. You can even hear her little snores.

The set includes a brush and fish biscuit accessories. Cherry is soft and cuddly with no restricted movement and the random functions mean play is always different.

I was very excited when I bought the Vtech My Laptop for a nephew. He was desperate for one and I was happy to provide. What was even better was that this VTech My Laptop was on sale on Amazon* so I got it for a tasty discount. It isn’t still on as big a sale right now, but it may go down again so keep your eyes peeled…

Anyway, I cannot tell you how disappointing this toy has been. First off the tiny little screen is almost impossible to see and read and catches the sunlight in the most awful way. You need to position yourself extremely carefully so as to not be in too dark a spot or too bright a spot, just to be able to see the screen! Ugh. What a total disappointment. And in a day and age when modern screens are bright and beautiful and crisp and big – without hectic costs – this is a travesty.

Not only is the screen quality poor, but it is extremely small. Just look at it in the picture in relation to the rest of the device. You have to squint your eyes to make out the tiny, pixelated dots on the screen. Wow, it’s as if you have gone back 10 years in time. If I’d bought this in 1990 I would have been impressed.

Then, to make matters worse, our VTech My Laptop stopped working on the right-hand side after three uses. It wasn’t dropped, nothing was spilled on it and it wasn’t hit. It just stopped working. Boom. So it cannot do half the games or activities anymore.

Don’t get this. Really don’t. Rather save your money and download apps onto whichever brand of tablet you own and use those apps instead. They are bigger, brighter, in actual colour, and won’t break down.

The Spynet Video Watch 2.0 three in one Night Vision Surveillance Pack has all the high-tech gadgetry needed to complete the most difficult missions. It is 33% off at The Toy Shop so instead of £74.99 you be paying £49.99, awesome.

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The Video Watch 2.0 looks like a regular watch but takes incredible night vision videos. With the advanced spy technology, you can secretly film 20 minutes of video, take more than 2000 photos or record up to three hours of sound no matter how dark it is. Once you're done spying, link it to your computer to review the evidence.

Then there are mirror glasses, no spy is complete without their shades. But this clever pair features mirrors so you can look the part and see who's creeping up behind you.

Lastly there’s a voice changer. The six function voice changer means you can pass on secret messages without anyone knowing it was you who said it.

This incredible pack also contains classified information that tells you how to go online and download secret missions and software from the Spynet website. The set needs rechargeable lithium batteries to work, which are included, love it!

Go make a fabulous discovery or hunt down treasure with the National Geographic Digital Metal Detector from Argos. The metal detector has been marked down from £24.99 to £9.99 so you’ll save a super £15.00.

• Click here to take advantage of this cool offer from Argos*

This is such a fun toy. I’m not sure if it’s going to only be for the kids or if dad’s going to want a go too. You and the kids can hunt for all your lost items and hidden treasures with this clever little metal detector made for fun tracking. Your geographic detector will pick up on all base metals and alloys and with an adjustment option you can play around with the sensitivity and volume control, while the rotating backlit digital LCD alerts you to status and battery strength.

The two-piece adjustable shaft easily converts from full height to hand-held so you can search anywhere. Other features include adjustable sensitivity plus audio tone alert with volume control and large search coil for excellent coverage and depth. Who knows, you may find centuries old hidden treasures in your back garden.