Unwrapped

First-hand advice from Tom has spent years buying, assembling and (occasionally) treading on toys for his own family, from LEGO Saturdays to console arguments over the TV. He writes about what actually gets used after the wrapping paper is binned, not just what looks good in a press photo. - real stories, mistakes and fixes from A weekly first-person column testing toys, games and consoles at home with real kids, sorting what's genuinely worth the money from what's just good marketing..

Updated automatically as new articles publish. Last rebuilt: 22 August 2026.