It feels like Christmas 1986! For Museum Collection Monday, let’s compare the merchandise, television and book series that followed for the Photon and Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag which were among the top home market laser tag toy lines to debut that year. Comments or Questions?  Contact: Tivia@tiviachickloveslasertag.com   Websites: www.tiviachickloveslasertag.com and www.photonforever.com and http://www.lasertagmuseum.com

It’s Christmastime at laser tag and tonight everyone was in the holiday spirit, including the Laser Tag Elf on the Shelf! This elf was baking all day to prepare the phaser cookies to thank the staff at The Fun Warehouse for another great year of tag adventures. Beanz had programmed special holiday colors for the free for all games, which were played with upbeat holiday music in the arena. And I must say, I loved how a couple of players even showed up wearing Grinch PJs during

This article is a first-hand account of the evolution of the Photon pods and phasers, as told by inventor George Carter III. The following notes about the various Photon pods and phasers were transcribed from a phone conversation with inventor George Carter III on December 13, 2025. (Photon first generation pod used in Dallas, TX Photon center) This pod was the very first generation, one of the ones built with a fiberglass helmet that was painted and well used. The scars and

This week on Laser Unfocused Tag Talk I am recapping some of my own personal laser tag highlights from 2025 as a precursor to my annual year in review blog article. Here I’ll share a few of the things I’ve been busy doing in this past year. ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xzXT3aqGa2edIlXpcaJBS ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laser-unfocused-tag-talk-with-tivia/id1632442213 ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/H9d9lS101F8?si=ftk6H3JvX1XVwrzq Comment

For Museum Collection Monday, let’s travel back in time nearly 40 years to the 1986 Christmas shopping season. Photon and Worlds of Wonder were leading the charge in their toy category that year and here is a look at a very rare (and still somehow working!) Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag store display from around that time. Comments or Questions?  Contact: Tivia@tiviachickloveslasertag.com   Websites: www.tiviachickloveslasertag.com and www.photonforever.com and http://www.lasert

Last night some high school students walked into the laser tag lobby looking sharp and showing up straight from their West Genesee semi-formal. Love it! They had the idea to play “the guys vs the girls” while many of them were still rockin’ their dressy attire in the arena. I feel so underdressed (lol), but this team looked great! I can remember a handful of occasions when I’ve seen similar groups show up over the years. I always think this is a really great thing. First, the

I really love when laser tag is the vehicle for doing something good to make a positive difference in the community. That’s why I decided to make a road trip down to Bullseye Laser Tag in Woodbridge, NJ to participate in their charity laser tag tournament in support of the Hearts and Hands toy drive to benefit the local Department of Child Permanency and Protection. For this tactical tournament, the only registration requested was for players to bring toys to donate to this c

Big thanks to RePlay Magazine for including our Tag 4 A Cause event to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation in their November issue. We held this fundraiser during the September regional draft tournament at Skyway Laser Storm. The Epilepsy Foundation also recently shared the news in the fall/winter edition of their community magazine called Foundation Quarterly! You can read about it on page 22 and 23 here… https://www.epilepsy.com/sites/default/files/2025-11/foundation-quarterly-

It’s Museum Collection Monday and today’s feature is a bit of photo trivia. Does anyone recognize what these are? 😉 Answer: These are the fins from around a Q-Zar base. For more laser tag history visit LaserTagMuseum.com . Comments or Questions?  Contact: Tivia@tiviachickloveslasertag.com   Websites: www.tiviachickloveslasertag.com and www.photonforever.com and http://www.lasertagmuseum.com

On this week’s episode of Laser Unfocused Tag Talk we get to hear all about the latest in laser tag directly from the manufacturers themselves who were exhibiting their newest laser tag innovations during the recent IAAPA Expo in Orlando, FL. ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xzXT3aqGa2edIlXpcaJBS ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laser-unfocused-tag-talk-with-tivia/id1632442213 ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DOiCjjNkJzM?si=A9qkQraX3lpjaeZt Comme