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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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Even before you hit the show, you’ll need to know what new companies are out there and the latest offerings from vendors you trust. TDmonthly Magazine looked through this month’s nearly 500 uploaded products... 
CNNMoney featured the following products/lines as breakout hits at Toy Fair 2008: Karito Kids by KidsGive, which broke its single-day sales record at this year's show; Pressman Toy, for its licensed offerings The Office Trivia Game, ESPN Jeopardy and Disney Wheel of Fortune... |
TDMONTHLY TOY FAIR COVERAGE |
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This year's Toy Fair teemed with robots and other high-tech gadgetry that yanked the World of Tomorrow into today's playthings. Watch videos to see more... 
TDmonthly Magazine found the best new toys at Toy Fair, spotted trends and found out what specialty retailers thought about the show... 
TDmonthly Magazine offered free toy demonstration videos to the first 50 Toy Fair exhibitors who responded to our email... 
With so many new products being introduced in preparation for Toy Fair, it’s easy to get buried underneath them all.... 
Two-thirds of the 24 specialty retailers surveyed by TDmonthly Magazine this month said they’ll be attending the American International Toy Fair in New York City next week...... |
TDMONTHLY TOY FAIR DOCUMENTARY |
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TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK |
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A good number of businesses are started by everyday people who see a need and decide to fill it. Such was the case for Michelle Beyer, owner of Clever Kids Toy Shop in Rochester, Minn.... 
Two related challenges for successful toy-store owners are finding sufficient storage space when the trucks roll up to their doors and deciding what to do with merchandise that won’t budge from the shelves.... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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TDmonthly spoke with 62 retailers about their success with arts and crafts products. While the amount of each particular product sold varied, one thing was consistent:... 
The year 2007 demonstrated the diversity in kids’ tastes — they wanted everything from plush to dolls to play vehicles to educational games.... |
TDMONTHLY TRENDS |
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TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS |
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TDmonthly Magazine’s Homeschool Roundtable fell in love with the soft plush Kookeys by 10VOX Entertainment, although they had mixed reviews of the virtual world “Kooland,” which is still being worked on by its creators... 
If you want to know which books to sell in your toy store, find out what the kids have to say.... 
The Little Little Little Toy Company’s Nuchi™ 15-Piece Circle Train Set delighted TDmonthly Magazine’s Toddler Roundtable with a simple layout, interlocking tracks and magnets that link the colorful cars and accessories.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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Jerrett Metzger, founder of Silly Willy Toys, hopes ZEN, his fortuitous creation, becomes one of those celebrated stories about accidental inventions that made millions.... |
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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Smart Mom LLC and Alpha Source International each found gaggles of celebrities to go ga-ga over their offerings... 
Last year marked, for the first time in years, a real change in the fashion doll category — the ascent of Hannah Montana.... |
TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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When TDmonthly Magazine calls toy-store owners about hot sellers, dolls aren’t usually at the top of their lists.... |
TDMONTHLY MANUFACTURER'S CORNER |
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If you’re attending Toy Fair for the first time, you may have questions about exhibitor dos and don’ts.... |
TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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Not only will TDmonthly Magazine be shooting its signature demo videos of new products at Toy Fair this year; we’ll also be shooting our first-ever documentary, “TOY FRENZY! Only the Fun Survive.”... 
A few years ago, grandparents Bob and Mary Sisson took the plunge to open a specialty toy store in their long-time community of Vancouver, Wash.... 
