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Review: Lightseekers Starter Packs: Jax and Kora

Lightseekers Toys
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At Sweet Suite I ad the good fortune of coming home with two Lightseekers Starter Packs (Affiliate Link). I have worked with the PR rep for TOMY for a number of years and he set one of each pack aside for me. I was really thrilled to finally play this game. Then I got home and time passed and I got swamped with so many things. I kept seeing posts from the Lightseekers Official site and Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. I saw the toys in Toys R Us and on Amazon.com. More time passed and I did not get to playing the game. I had no excuse, too. I had opened the Starter Packs in New York so that I could carry everything home. the boxes are huge! I even picked up some accessories at Toys R Us to use including a Starter Deck for the Tech element (Affiliate Link), a Spinblade 3000 (Affiliate Link) and a Flynamo for my Tyrax character, Jax. There is a whole heck of a lot that goes along with this game and so I made the video below to explain it the best I know how and to give you a look at how everything works.

Lightseekers is a Toys to Life Game, but it is more than that. Lightseekers are action figures, but they are more than that. Lightseekers are Augmented Reality, but they are more than that. Lightseekers is a Collectible Card Game but again, they are more than that. There are so many facets to Lightseekers and it is only continuing to grow and expand. See what I mean in the video below.

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Press Release, Toys

Anki OVERDRIVE gets a release date of September, 20 2015

Anki OVERDRIVE Keyart

The most incredible thing that I saw at Toy Fair 2015 was Anki OVERDRIVE. I had heard nothing about it previously and when I experienced it I was completely hooked. It was amazing. Imagine your favorite racing video game with real physical cars but you drive them with your mobile device. So, in addition to physically driving the cars you can also digitally upgrade them with more armor, power, speed and weapons. The other cool thing is that not only are you able to race the track on your own you can race again a virtual opponent who drives the physical car! Anki OVERDRIVE cars have AI and they can race the track against you.

Anki OVERDRIVE Commander Sever

With Anki OVERDRIVE you can participate in more challenges than just racing against yourself or a friend or the computer AI driver. You are connected to a whole community of other Anki OVERDRIVE drivers. The community of Anki Drivers can see all sorts of challenges on the Anki Facebook Page. It is a very engaging space where Anki asks drivers questions and give fun facts about all the drivers and what they’ve done each week. Right now the Facebook page is putting up all sorts of Game Stats for their first version of Anki but they are gearing up for that September 20, 2015 release of Anki OVERDRIVE. Here’s a look at the new Starter Pack which is retailing at $150.00

Anki OVERDRIVE Starter Kit

Starter Kit Includes – (2) two robotic supercars – Skull and GroundShock, (4) straight track pieces, (6) 90 degree curved pieces, (2) riser pieces, (1) four-car charger, (1) tire cleaning kit

The new track is amazing. It is all magnetic and can be easily set up and reconfigured over and over. And the cars, oh man the cars. Each of the Anki cars are so cool. they are sleek and fast and light up, spin around and are just amazing. I could not believe how fast the cars were going around the track and still staying on. I thought for sure that they would go flying off the track but they didn’t. They drove with such precision. I cannot wait to drive them again. I may have to pick up one of the older cars because they can work with some of the modes of the new Anki OVERDRIVE. You can read more about this new amazing toy below. Continue reading Anki OVERDRIVE gets a release date of September, 20 2015 →