"Potter" puts model trains back on track
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Sales of model trains are picking up steam again thanks to deals linking them to the "Harry Potter" and "The Polar Express" movies, along with a new approach to marketing the old-fashioned toys.
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U.S. toy makers may have trotted out a laughing Elmo, a life-sized miniature pony and a digital camera for 3-year-olds this year, but the new products may not be enough to pull the industry out of a slump.
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A LONG-awaited refurbishment to a play area in
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State Fair jumps on boy wizard bandwagon Iowa State Fair has jumped firmly on the JK Rowling bandwagon in the run-up to this week's release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by announcing an audacious butter sculpture of the boy wizard, the Des Moines Register reports.â¦
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The publisher who first signed up J.K. Rowling believes he may have found another Harry Potter -- but this time it is a boy archaeologist.
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The color was back in Joe Gibbs' cheeks. He looked refreshed, even a little chipper. He did an impersonation from "Young Frankenstein" and referenced the "Wizard of Id" comic strip.
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Imagine âFamily Guyâ with an espionage subplot and a big dose of magical realism, and you have âPhineas and Ferb,â Disneyâs new animated childrenâs series.
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Virgin's high-speed tilting trains finally come into passenger service on the West Coast Main Line.
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Better batteries and supersticky glues are on the horizon.
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- Toymaker RC2 Corp. said it will recall specific wooden railway vehicles and set components from the Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line due to possible lead poisoning hazard.
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Game animator I-Wei Huang is getting rave reviews for his steam-powered robots. How does he hack RC kits with steam engines? And will he ever make a rideable robot? By Griffin Wright.
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Motorists nostalgic for the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.
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Â· Thomas the Tank Engine items taken off UK shelvesÂ· 70,000 Chinese-made playthings may be affected
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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Arts & entertainment: Edmund de Waal challenges the philosophy of potting as functionalist and ruralist to turn ceramics into art.
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Virgin's high-speed tilting trains experience difficulties on the first day of passenger services.
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The publishers of Harry Potter corrected an error in one of JK Rowling's books after readers spotted a mistake.