Category: dadbloggers

  • Chicago Toy & Game Fair is Coming Soon. Want to Go?

    The Chicago Toy and Game Fair is coming up, November 23 & 24, and the Fandads will be there again this year and we want to take some of our readers with us…not in the same car of course, but we can all meet up there.  This year marks the 11th anniversary of CHiTag so…

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  • The Dads do Baby Loves Disco

    Saturday October 19, the Fandads along with dads from the Chicago Meet Up group got together to dance the afternoon away with our kids at Lincoln Hall for the Baby Loves Disco party.  Never been to a Baby Loves Disco event. Well hopefully our recap will make you feel like you were there and you…

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  • Why I am doing Movember this year.

    This November I am joining a group of DadBoggers in what has been come to be known as Movember.  What is Movember? For the entire month, men grow out their mustaches to help raiseawareness for prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men and hopefully grow some sweet ‘staches by the time the month is…

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  • Angry Birds Star Wars Telepods Review and Giveaway

    Earlier this year I confessed that I never played the Angry Bird games and that a Star Wars version came out and that had me a little intrigued.  Well, today I can say that I am addicted to the Star Wars version of the game and I got my little girl addicted to it also.…

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  • Fandads Join the #BigLeagueDads to see the Chicago Cubs.

    On Sunday, September 22, Dove Men + Care and MLB invited a few Chicago Dad bloggers to see the Chicago Cubs take on the Atlanta Braves.  While it was not the outcome the Cubs faithful would have liked to have, it was a good day for families to make some memories out at the ballpark.While…

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  • Pacific Rim Blu-Ray Giveaway

    Remember watching cartoons like Voltron and Tranzor Z (Mazinger Z) and just thinking how awesome those robots were. I remember when I saw the first Transformers movie and thinking to myself “If they can make robots like this, they should do a Voltron movie soon.”  Sadly, I will still have to wait a few more…

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  • A Fandads Fan Reviews Disney Infinity

    Being that both Gil and I are teachers, it’s kind of hard to sit down and play video games like we used to.  With the plethora of games coming out, we try to keep up, but sometimes it’s just hard to buy or play the games we want.  Here is where you come in, the…

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  • Battroborg to The Death…or At Least Close to It.

    On Thursday September 10th, a group of Chicago Dad Bloggers got together for one night of brutal and senseless violence….by settling the score at the #Battroborgs #gametruck event.  “What are BattroBorgs?” you may be asking.  Remember the old “Rock ’em, Sock ’em Robots?  Do we got that image yet? Ok, now toss that image aside…

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  • Bounty Killer DVD Giveaway!

    As Fandads we all like to find time to relax and enjoy our video games, comics and movies.  Every now and then we just want to watch something to take our mind away from our daily problems and just veg out.  One thing that I think we can all agree on is we like to…

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  • The Fandads are coming for you Rock!! #Sponsored

    After countless false starts and firing some of the best directors out there (too many slow motion shots Bay) the Fandads #SuperMilkMan video is finally up! Recently Fandads teamed up with Milk to help promote The Rock’s new milk campaign.  This team up led to an amazing twitter party, some fun trash talk between the…

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