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TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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Magic is the theme this month, as brush strokes dissolve on a Buddha Board... 
Thousands of products are introduced to the toy industry every year, but only a limited number are good enough, playable enough and innovative enough to garner an award.... |
TDMONTHLY HOT TOPIC |
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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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TRAVEL TOYS |
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WATER ACTIVITIES |
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Treks to the water park will be a thing of the past if manufacturers of ever-more- elaborate inflatable versions have their way... |
INFANT & TODDLER |
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TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS |
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What happens when you turn the three R's (Reading, Writing and 'Rithmatic) sideways?... 
Christina Liu uses toys to help kids with or at risk for developmental delay reach their full potential. This month, her kids put it together big time, learn to chase words, hop through the Amazon and more... 
This month, Dorothea DePrisco Wang entered the gothic realm, watched pirates battle babysitting, and soothed children into naptime with a winter lullaby.... |
TDMONTHLY BRASS RING |
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TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK |
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Running a toy store isn't easy. High costs and competition snuffed out at least one neighborhood specialty store within the past two years... 
After spending a decade opening stores for others, Dina and Ed Evans decided it was time do something for themselves... 
Every day is full of adventure for Ed and Dina Evans, owners of West Berlin, N.J.'s All Things Fun, where action toys, games and comics are the focus.... 
Laid off by Digital Equipment Corporation about a year apart, Garrett (Gary) Pillivant and his wife, Alice, experienced unexpected events that led to their becoming Power Wheels specialists, the couple told TDmonthly Magazine.... 
Run by Garrett and Alice Pillivant, a husband-and- wife team of Power Wheels repair and maintenance specialists, Gramps’ Garage is now in its 12th year of business.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY ROUNDTABLES |
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This month, TDmonthly's Homeschool Roundtable raved about four games that were four kinds of fun... 
This month, the Infant/Toddler Roundtable participants evaluated the Whistling Hippos by Alex, the Whale Bath Toy by Tiny Love, and the Bathtub Fun Center by Ravensburger's Mini-Steps... 
This month, Dolls Roundtable participants took a look at Melena — a Käthe Kruse rag doll by Europlay.... |
TDMONTHLY COOL COMPANY |
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TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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Forget customer loyalty and sales that depend solely on good product design. In an interconnected world of ever-expanding options, “tribal” tendencies are taking the mass out of culture... 
Tweens are a potential nightmare for marketers. They identify with a social group, but want to be seen as individuals; desire aspirational product, but like their kid-ness; and want to be empowered, but need a safety net... 
From far-off India they come. From video games they come. Even from audiotapes.... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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This month, retailers told TDmonthly Magazine that pull toys are pulling their weight in the infant category... 
Specialty retailers told TDmonthly that magnets attract attention in the backseats of cars across America... |
TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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Kids love to build, as sellers of LEGO and K’NEX can attest... 
Debbie Scholl has run Fundamentally Toys, a specialty store in Houston, for more than 10 years. How does she do it?... 
June marks the official start of TDmonthly Magazine’s Holiday Preview issues, with articles on the newest and coolest toys for kids in 2007... 
