Dexter the digger from Wow Toys

That's my Eddie, playing and singing and making up the lyrics as he plays. He loves his Wow toys, and was delighted when a new toy - Dexter the digger arrived, in its super-duper bright and cheerful box.

This fantastic construction toy is every little kid's dream (I first wrote "boy's", but then thought girls would love it as well, if they enjoy vehicles and especially construction toys).

Dexter the digger is a motorised digger, with a strong and sturdy digging arm. It can spin around to offload the rattling boulders. Dexter comes accompanied by his friend builder Bill.
What about its features? You can pull and push the lever to scoop the boulders and drop them. You can open the engine compartment. As all Wow toys, there is a push-button function.
Its dimenstions are:
w: 440mm (17.32") h: 247mm (9.72")
Since the digger arrived, Eddie's friends came over to play a couple of times, and as soon as they see the majestic digger, they do a beeline towards it. Eddie's still learning the principles of sharing so he thinks he should warn them just in case "This is my digger!", to which I tell him it is nice to share. Actually he is happy to play with his mates. When recently one of the parents from the nursery came over for a morning coffee, she brought her younger son with her. Eddie was feeling very grown-up and showed all the toys to the little boy, and they played so nicely together.
There is a Show and Tell time in Eddie's nursery on Wednesday, and he wants to take his digger to show to his mates.


What more can I say? One happy boy.

If you liked this review, you might be interested in reading Wow Toys Emergency Rescue Bundle.

Disclosure: We received Dexter the digger for the purposes of reviewing, but if you read my blog, you'd know we're huge fans of Wow toys and spent a little fortune on them. All opinions are mine.

Stanley Street Sweeper from Wow Toys (Giveaway c/d 1 March NOW CLOSED)

My younger son Eddie loves Wow Toys. He spends hours, playing with them (see my recent review of Wow Toys Emergency Rescue Bundle). I am delighted to offer a splendid Stanley Street Sweeper from Wow Toys as a prize for one of my lucky blog readers.

Just imagine how delighted your little people will be with such a toy, which is great for role-play.

"Stanley’s the name and street sweepings the game! The streets of WOW Town have been spotless since my introduction a few years back, and they always will be! As you push me along my rubber brushes rotate to sweep up everything in my path! My brilliant driver, Jason, keeps me company on those wet and windy days around town with his great sense of humour and entertaining anecdotes.

My roof shows the rubbish being sorted into its individual compartments so you can spin it round to sort it to where it’s meant to be. Sweeping and collection rubbish has never been so much fun!"

Contents:

1x Street sweeper called Stanley
1x Boy driver figure called Jason

If you would like to win this prize, please fill in the Rafflecopter form.
T&Cs:
Only the first step is mandatory: all you need is to answer the question by leaving a comment (there is no right or wrong answer)

If you login as Anonymous, please leave your Twitter name or FB name, so that I could identify you, I do not suggest leaving the email address in the comment. I will do my best to notify the winner, but if you don't leave me any means of getting in touch with me, it might be tricky.

All the other steps are optional, you don't have to do them all. All it takes to win is just one entry.

Only one entry per person is allowed (however, you can tweet daily to increase your chances).

The giveaway is open worldwide. 

Once the Rafflecopter picks the winner, I will contact them, if they do not reply within a week, the prize will be allocated to another person. I will pass the address details of the winner to Wow Toys, and they will dispatch the prize.

If you haven't used the Rafflecopter before, you might want to watch this simple video.
The giveaway will close on 1 March at midnight (the night from 28th of February)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

For more information on the range please visit Wow Toys on Facebook and Wow Toys on Twitter.

Thank you to all entrants! The giveaway is now closed, and the winner is announced on the widget. Big well done to Jennifer R!

Wow Toys Emergency Rescue Bundle

"Mama, are you trying to win that school bus for me?", ever hopeful, Eddie has been asking me, when I was entering a giveaway to win Sidney the school bus from Wow toys on one of the parenting blogs. I kept telling him that I was trying very hard indeed, tweeting daily. Alas, another Mummy won it for her little boy or girl, and Eddie was very disappointed with my winning skills. He shouldn't complain though, as I recently bought a Wow toys Emergency Rescue Bundle (a set of 4 vehicles) for him. I had some vouchers for amazon, and though I coveted some new fancy cake tins, I gave up under the onslaught of daily requests and bought a set, especially that it was at half price. Wow Toys know how to appeal to their young audience, as each toy comes with a spreadsheet which features all the toys in their collection along with the colouring page. Eddie studies it very seriously and makes a wistful face, saying how much he wants a bus/safari truck/lunar van/fireboat etc etc

My lucky boy already had a couple of Wow toys from before Christmas, and watching him play with his toys is a pure delight. He is happily engrossed in his imaginary world of little people and vehicles. What I love about this range is the great attention to detail. We mix and match vehicles and figures. It's all about creative play. So Santa Claus might end up driving a police car with a reindeer on a top of the car.

Wow Toys Emergency Rescue bundle

The Emergency Rescue bundle consists of four Wow Toys: Ernie Fire Engine, Police Plane Pete, Robin's Medical Rescue, Police Chase Charlie plus two small packets of figurines.
What is it with boys and their love of fire engines and trucks? Eddie cannot have enough of Fireman Sam's stories on TV and in books, and he loves playing with his Ernie Fire Engine. It comes with a firefighter Jack, sorry, he is Sam now. The ladder goes up and round to help the little firefighter fight the flames.

Police Plane Pete (see above) is a motorised police plane with rotating propellers. It comes with a policeman and police dog. If you rotate the tail, you will discover 3 secret compartments.
Eddie was particularly thrilled that Officer Foley has a sandwich and a chocolate bar in his compartment, while Buddy the dog has its own doggie snacks and water.

Police Chase Charlie is another policeman-dog team. Officer Cash and dog Whiskey are on the beat. They are great friends with Officer Foley and Buddy, of course, and by now I'm not sure who is who, where is Buddy and where is Whiskey.

As I mentioned creative play already, Eddie is inventing games with all his vehicles, for example, he says the elephant Elvis is not feeling well because he ate too much, so Sam is taking him in his Rock'n'Ride quad bike (which is not part of the rescue set) to the ambulance to be seen by Nina. He loves the name Elvis and thinks the elephant is named after Elvis in Fireman Sam.

Rock'nRide Ralph (a quad bike with Sam and elephant Elvis)

Robin's Medical rescue was the main reason behind buying the whole set of four, as it alone cost over £20. It is a clever set, which consists of an ambulance and a few figures: Nina the paramedic, Sandy who is the boy on a stretcher, and a girl in a wheelchair, who my son insists on calling Ellie after a girl he knows well and who is a wheelchair user. Click on the side door, and the stretcher can be taken out. There is a back door with the ramp, which is released automatically when you push the button. There is also an X-ray machine inside. Isn't it just great?!

  

Robin's Medical Rescue from Wow Toys

When we looked together at the spreadsheet of vehicles, admiring all their bright colours and funny names, Eddie wanted to find out if there was a vehicle called Eddie or Edgar. Sadly, none are called Eddie. I told him maybe one of their new releases will be called after him.

We love Wow Toys. My only criticism is the amount of wires in packaging. It is not easy to undo all the wires, they are tangled so hard, that only an adult would be able to unscramble them. Other than that I cannot find any fault with the toys.
I already know what I am going to buy for Eddie's birthday.

For more information visit Wow Toys.