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October 3

HEY DUGGEE, GO JETTERS AND THE CBEEBIES TEAM

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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3
OCT

If you have kids under 5, then no doubt you’ll be familiar with biscuit crumbs wedged in the cracks of your car seat and couch. You’ll also most likely be familiar with CBeebies TV shows, Hey Duggee and Go Jetters. They’re two of our most favourite shows to watch, if you can actually see the screen beneath a myriad of greasy fingerprints and two heads clambering to get as close to the screen as possible, whenever they come on. So, the excitement of meeting Duggee and Ubercorn in real-life was as high as my hairline. (more…)
April 19

WINTERBOTTOM WINS OVER LIGHTNING MCQUEEN

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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19
APR

For the last two years, Lightning McQueen has reigned supreme in pole position on our boy’s interest leaderboard, until yesterday, when a new contender emerged victorious atop the Winner’s Podium – Mark ‘Frosty’ Winterbottom.

Not since The Marx Brothers has there been such a crazy and fun ‘Day At The Races’, and excited as we were to get up close and personal with McQueen and Mack at the Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour, we had no idea just how close and personal things were about to get. Crazy close and personal.

The Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour was housed in the Disney Interactive Zone inside the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit during the WD 40 Phillip Island Supersprints, which sounds like a bunch of running robot athletes racing each other without a single squeak, but is actually a full-on, high-octane V8 Supercar Racecar Event. Discounting the slot-car set Indy got for Christmas, we’ve never been this close to an actual race track before and there really is a certain vibe, buzz and thrill in the air around it. (more…)
April 13

LIGHTNING MCQUEEN IN PHILLIP ISLAND THIS WEEKEND

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 1-2 years, 3-5 years, Events
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13
APR

YEEHAW! Buckle up and put your pedal-to-the-metal because Lightning McQueen and Mack are rolling right out of Radiator Springs and revving right up to our very doorstep. Yes, indeed. Disney/Pixar, Mack Trucks and V8 Supercars are excited to announce that The Disney/Pixar Cars Truck Tour will be touring Phillip Island this weekend!

KA-CHOW! (more…)
April 4

DADDY’S HOME: DVD GIVEAWAY

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: Dad Mishaps, Events, Giveaways, Trailers
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4
APR

As a kid, one of my fondest memories of my own Daddy was when we were stopped at traffic lights in our green HR Holden and when the lights changed green, my Dad just sat there laughing his head off. Cars banked up behind us and people hollered and hooted their horns at us to move, but still, my Dad just sat there and laughed and laughed. Pretty soon, a motorcycle cop came riding up beside us and motioned for my Dad to move on, but still he looked and laughed. The cop came to the window and when he told my Dad to get a move on, my Dad just laughed at him and said, ‘I can’t do that.” The cop looked at him sternly and asked, “What’s the problem?” To which my Dad, still laughing his head off, held up the gear stick from the column shift that had snapped right off in his hand when he tried to change gears when the lights changed. It’s clear we weren’t going anywhere. (more…)
April 2

WHEN INDY MET THE DENTIST

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years
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2
APR

When I was a kid, I loved going to the dentist. Or rather, the dentist would come to us. Huddled in a little caravan parked inside the school, we clambered in one-by-one like a budget version of Noah’s Ark, in order to have our teeth examined, cleaned and filled (as necessary) and when we spat out our last mouthful of fluoride into the spittoon provided and wiped the dribble from our lips, he’d tell us what a great job we did, hand us our cellophane-wrapped lollipop and send us off with a cheery, “See you next year.” It was a…hold-up, did I just say lollipop? Hold the phone, this guy was keeping himself in business! (more…)
March 25

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP ‘CHIPNIC’

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years, Trailers, Videos
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25
MAR

Wow, what a nut-cracker of a day we had today when we hosted our very own official ‘Chipnic Party’ to help celebrate the digital release of Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Road Chip movie, on iTunes, just before Easter.

Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the courtship of Rachel and Ross or the time Mumma looked at me suggestively and said, “you know, the kids are both asleep”, has there been such an air of excitement and eager anticipation. It was all hands and paws on deck as we prepped and fluffed with the help of some fury friends to get things ‘chip-shape’ for the big day. (more…)
March 24

CHIPNIC PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE ROAD CHIP RELEASE ON ITUNES

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years
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24
MAR

Things are about to get a bit nutty at our place today as we host our own ‘Chipnic Party’ to celebrate the digital release of Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Road Chip, on iTunes

We’ll be live posting live pics on Twitter and Facebook from 12:30pm today and follow it up with a blog chock full of great pics.

So jump on over to Twitter or Facebook from 12:30pm today to catch all out Chipmunk hijinks.

You can follow our pics at #ChipmunksOnDigitalHD

See you there!
TIME TO GET CRACKING…

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years
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23
MAR

Only 1 day to go…
HOLD ON TO YOUR NUTS…

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: 3-5 years, Events, Toddler Years
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22
MAR

Something’s coming…
March 21

JURASSIC CREATURES FROM THE ICE AGE LIVE @ DOCKLANDS

AUTHOR: 40YrOldDad // CATEGORY: D-scoveries, Events
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21
MAR

It’s every budding palaeontologists delight. A chance to get up and close with some of the biggest, meanest and ugliest creatures this planet has ever seen…and then, there’s the dinosaurs. If your kids are way too young to watch Jurassic Park without being traumatised by digital CGI dinosaurs and prefer to traumatise them the old fashioned way with the old analogue animatronic dinosaurs with realistic sounds and movements, then Jurassic Creatures featuring Prehistoric Creatures of the ICE at Docklands Harbour Town is just the ticket for you.

Our boy is going through a stage where he loves dinosaurs more than rainbow wrappers…(well, almost) and now that he’s discovered other huge creatures existed other than dinosaurs such as wooly mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, cave bears and wooly rhino’s (I’m sure that’s a cocktail just waiting to be discovered), his interest in all things dead and buried has been peaked again. And to think you can see them all under the one roof at the same time as your other perennial Dino favourites such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Saltasaurus and more. I mean, come on, even Mother Nature couldn’t do that. She had to keep them separated by millions of years in the back seat so they wouldn’t keep touching each other. But here they are getting along in perfect harmony (I think you an your sister could learn a lot from this?). (more…)