Some three decades after my first go-around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s once again ‘cowabunga time’ as my girls (and our cat) recently discovered, and have fallen in love with, the hard shelled pranksters Leonardo and Michelangelo, Donny and Raph. My memory, while still holding down the fort at […]
Yeah, I know. Father’s Day is this Sunday, and boy wouldn’t it have been grand to have this giveaway end, say, last week instead of next week. Whatevs. You want some handsome steak knives or what? You gonna quibble over a few days on either side of a fictional holiday? […]
Enough with the baby stuff (I mean, unless you are a baby in which case, who in the hell let you use the internet unsupervised?), let’s give something away the grown-ups would like! Maybe a Father’s Day gift???? Yeah, I dunno, that’s in like 9 days. Still, something awesome, a […]
This isn’t the way it’s drawn it up in the boardroom. Generally speaking the licensed toy industry looks to capitalize on the existing popularity of a TV or movie franchise, and its beloved, or at the very least familiar, cast of characters. This is not how my daughters came to […]
Sure, I’d seen ’em. The footballers on Being: Liverpool, every NBA and college basketball player getting off their team bus and walking through the concrete tunnels beneath the arena, I’ve seen ’em a lot, but I never really thought about owning a pair of swanky over-the-ear headphones myself. That is […]
No pigs in or out of blankets, zero infantile quiches, and rarely ever an evil egg. We four enjoy all of these delicacies very much, for sure, but save for officially-sanctioned family Christmastime visits to my mom and dad’s house, we don’t do hor-d’oeuvres. So when the Hickory Farms Home […]
The ballots have been cast, and the people have spoken! OWTK is happy to be giving away a Trunki Suitcase (in the color pattern of your choosing) from the Melissa & Doug 2012 Terrific Twenty Toy List to one lucky reader — cue applause!! Look at that cute thing down […]
The great Melissa & Doug are feeling uber merry these days. Yesterday, they voted to give away one goodie from their spiffy Terrific Twenty toy list, per day, via their official M&D Facebook page. Niiiice. You should enter. What’s even sweeter is that OWTK is going to be able to […]
