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You’ve plenty of “12″ inch,or other size vinyls ,and would like to hear them play on a turntable rather than MP3? Well,with the above player you can do either, whenever you want. This is a turntable with its own built-in speakers. It’s very portable for those long lazy afternoons in the garden, or picnics by the river.

Described by the distributor as hi tech meets high school, this well engineered gadget can cross the technologies from retro to digital sound. You should have more information. This is available at the Firebox site here now.

Remember Arcade,Atari,Spectrum and Nintendo . From the 1980s come the Mario Bros. Still plumbing, perhaps, but now presented as 2″ high vinyl characters, Mario and Luigi can stand tall on your desk ,or work place, representing their pixellated other selves. A spin-off from Donkey Kong this peripatetic pair (I mean they got just about everywhere in their adventures) led the Nintendo video games
drive from 1983.

This vinyl set also includes our other favourite characters in glorious clour: Bomb-omb,Bullet Bill,Paragoomba, and Yoshi. Dream on in the Mushroom Kingdom with these guys!

Further details of how you can get your hands on these miniature screen icons can be had from
the Firebox website.

Did you know that the board game Monopoly was developed by an unemployed heating engineer called Charles Darrow and patented by him in 1935?

Darrow’s first version of the game was rejected by a toy manufacturer to whom he tried to sell it. That company rejected the game on the grounds it had 52 ‘faults’ with it and it would not catch on to become a big seller! Parker Brothers,the toy company did buy the game in the end.

It is reckoned that over 750 million have played Monopoly since it was patented by Darrow. Furthermore, Parker Brothers (now a Hasbro brand) prints $40 billion of Monopoly money every year,or twice the amount of real money printed by the US mint!

Now,and here’s the thing, Monopoly has continued to be developed since those early days. Indeed,although Darrow is credited with the game’s creation, he is perhaps more properly the person who developed the idea and made it the vast commercial success it is. Across the US,in the 1920s and 1930s, others had played a variation of the game. You,too,can join in the tradition of developing the most successful board game of all time(according to the Guinness Book of Records) and have your own personalized set produced for you! Create and name the properties you want in your own Monopoly game. Yes,you can do this,and change some other details, also! So,be a property tycoon.Go to the Firebox website for details by clicking here.

Now this is a must-have for those like me who have a stash of vinyl records and/or audio cassettes in the attic or under the stairs.

Columbia,Parlophone,Decca,Philips,RCA,great records labels all. How would you like to relive the sounds they can make. If in your dusty and redundant pile you also have audio cassettes their content,too,can be resurrected for the modern era. You can again enjoy the sounds of yesterday today,and very easily in 4 steps, using the vinyl record and audio cassette ripper.In no time your collection will good for the MP3 player or burn a copy from your PC to CD.

The nice people at Firebox have a limited period offer with a £10 reduction per unit. To see this you should go to the firebox website