{"id":2613,"date":"2011-11-27T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2011-11-26T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T10:44:32","slug":"birmingham-nec-toy-fair-beat-the-post-christmas-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2613","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham NEC Toy Fair &#8211; Beat The Post-Christmas Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think you might be suffering from a post-Christmas excess of turkey and television by the 27th December, you might want to consider a trip to Britain&#8217;s biggest toy fair, the Toy Collectors&#8217; Fair at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a> NEC.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by toy fair specialist Barry Potter Fairs, the last NEC Toy Collectors&#8217; Fair in September attracted more than 400 stallholders and thousands of visitors. Toys have a great cross-generation appeal &#8211; unlike antiques, crafts or DIY, there is sure to be something that will interest all members of your family.<\/p>\n<p>The wide selection of stallholders means that there will be a huge range of stock on offer &#8211; including rare trains, models, teddy bears, dolls and much more. TV memorabilia will also feature strongly &#8211; it&#8217;s a chance for the Star Wars or Dr Who fan in your life to find that special item&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Toy Collectors&#8217; Fair is open from 10.30am &#8211; 3.30pm on the 27th December 2011 &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpfairs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bpfairs.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenec.co.uk\/whatson\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.thenec.co.uk\/whatson\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever kind of collectable toy floats your boat, you will probably find it at Britain&#8217;s largest toy fair, the Toy Collectors&#8217; Fair at the Birmingham NEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1231],"tags":[195,1232,1233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}