Cover Story There’s a new extension – quite literally – to the Sylvanian Families range as budding young hairdressers can style their pony’s hair with the mane attraction of Pony’s Stylish Hair Salon launches. And there’s plenty more from Epoch Games too…

Style & play

There’s a new extension – quite literally – to the Sylvanian Families range as budding young hairdressers can style their pony’s hair with the mane attraction of Pony’s Stylish Hair Salon launches. And there’s plenty more from Epoch Games too…

Mini-stylists can unleash their creativity by picking a hair style from the styling book and giving Sally a makeover while sat at “ the beautiful dresser

Fans of Sylvanian Families can step into the brand’s new Pony’s Stylish Hair Salon and hone their hairdressing skills on Sally the Pony Girl.

Mini-stylists can unleash their creativity by picking a hair style from the styling book and giving Sally a makeover while sat at the beautiful dresser. They can wash, brush and blow dry her long, silky mane before using a curling iron. Then finish by adding cool extensions and cute clips. Afterwards, they can treat her to a pampering face mask, and use the colourful cosmetics to apply a slick of lipstick and a sweep of eyeshadow.

The centre of Sylvanian Families’ new Style & Play theme, the highly detailed two-storey beauty salon, features a shampoo station with shower head on the side of the sink, hair and makeup station and reception desk. It also comes with more than 30 cute accessories for imaginative hair and makeup roleplay.

The accessories can be arranged on the dresser and the extensions hung up on the salon walls. The set can be paired with the new Pony Friends Set as well as Pony’s Hair Stylist Set and the Princess Dress Up Set for extended stylingthemed play.

Building on the success of the Amusement Land-themed sets launched in 2021, two adorable new amusement vehicles also launch this summer. The new vehicles include the Ice Cream Van and Popcorn Delivery Trike. With more than 30 accessories, the pastelcoloured Ice Cream Van provides personalised treats to hungry Sylvanians including a variety of ice cream flavours and decorations, which can be made to look like the Sylvanian characters.

The Popcorn Delivery Trike comes complete with the Sheep Mother, Barbara, and a popcorn machine that pops fresh popcorn when a child turns the handle.

Also this summer, Aquabeads fans can look forward to taking their fabulous creations with them wherever they go with the introduction of the best-selling art and craft brand’s Deluxe Carry Case, which follows hot on the heels of the first-ever portable offering, the Beginners Carry Case, launched in January.

Ideal for summer holidays, birthday gifting, crafting activities or a fun travel companion, the case includes more than 1,400 beads in 40 colours, which allow children to make out-of-the-box creations and develop their creativity even further than before.

With a creation display, design pegs as well as rings and bracelet bases, there are more ways than ever to use end creations including decorating the beautiful quilted case with the crafter’s favourite creations to add individuality.

Finally...

Epoch Games introduces its latest offering under the Super Mario licence. The Super Mario Adventure Game DX is an exciting action game designed to test players’ ability to deliver their playing marble to the goal using the three buttons and two revolving wheels while tackling seven tricky obstacles. There’s lots of gimmicks and movement without the need for batteries. The game forms part of the Super Mario Link System, which allows playing figures to be swapped from one game to another so fans can always play as their favourite character.