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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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Busy with spring cleaning? Then just browse through highlights of TDmonthly Magazine’s April issue:... 
Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, the prosecutor general of Iran, has denounced the smuggling of Barbie, Harry Potter items and other toys from the West, warning that such products will harm the country's culture... |
TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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Quickly find the toys you need from Toy Fair when you search by category.
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Not sure the ABC Kids Expo is right for you? Take a look at the great new companies TDmonthly Magazine's video crew found last year... |
TDMONTHLY TRADE SHOW WRAP-UP |
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At the Western States Toy & Hobby Show in Pomona, Calif., in March, artful clowns balanced, toothpicks got “jig”gy and the classic sock monkey acted like a yo-yo.... 
What did specialty retailers think about this year’s American International Toy Fair in New York City and the Western States Toy & Hobby Show in Pomona, Calif.?... 
Just a few weeks after Toy Fair, West Coast shoppers hit up the Western States Toy & Hobby Show in Pomona, Calif., where natural wooden offerings reflected the marketplace’s penchant for all things safe and eco-friendly...... 
The American International Toy Fair, an annual event that takes over New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Center each February, is the primary launching ground for the toys, games, dolls and various innovations that will shape the nature of the toy industry... |
TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK |
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According to Co-owner Jay Demircift, excellence in merchandise and customer care work together to create a successful environment at Puzzle Zoo toy stores.... 
Excited children are an everyday component of operating a specialty toy store, but occasionally a child goes out of control — becoming dangerous to a business and its profit margin.... 
Talk of recession and comparisons to the Great Depression in the media fuel consumer anxiety, but most experts predicted to TDmonthly Magazine that toy stores will fare well in a challenged economy... 
The 2008 orders are in and more than half of 45 storeowners surveyed by TDmonthly Magazine are revved up about the new toys coming their way... 
A new hot item to watch for may be the Bakugan Battle Brawlers line of strategic card games and marbles that transform into robots.... 
Easter sales were all over the place at 17 specialty stores across the country, TDmonthly Magazine learned, with five stores reporting an increase or numbers in line with last year, and others suffering from the infamous recession, still-wintry weather and vacant towns due to Spring Break.... 
Given the barrage of environmentally friendly product hitting the market, now is the perfect time to capitalize on “green” by celebrating Earth Day not only on April 22, but all month long.... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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Plasmart’s Plasma Car continues to ride the popularity wave in specialty stores. Over 28 percent of retailers singled out the Plasma Car as their absolute best-selling ride-on toy.... |
TDMONTHLY SPECIALTY TOYS REPORT |
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TDMONTHLY TRENDS |
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Take a look at these new puzzles to see which pieces fit best with your customers.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS |
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TDmonthly Magazine’s Homeschool Roundtable families faced a series of ethical dilemmas when they played “what’s the deal?” from ethiKids inc.... 
Clics, a three-dimensional building set from ToyLinks Inc., really “clicked” with some of TDmonthly Magazine’s Preschool/Early School Roundtable participants, while other children experienced some difficulty.... 
Between shooting off custom rockets and using spelling and vocabulary to score a win, TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom rated each of the following products with 1 to 5 TD stars...... |
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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After Magnetic Marbles launched into space aboard a U.S. Space Shuttle as part of NASA’s 1993 “Toys in Space II” program, the toy received a much-deserved name change: Geospace® Magnetic Marbles...... |
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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Earning respect and earning money are similar, in that everyone loves to have both, yet not everyone is willing to do what is required to earn them. Selling without being a jerk means that you earn both simultaneously...... 
At Toy Fair 2008, George Kacic, vice president of sales and marketing for Ganz, said he felt TDmonthly Magazine hadn’t covered his company’s point of view about the Webkinz shortage last year.... 
MEGA Brands’ most recent recall came on top of a slew of others — one from Hobby Lobby, two from Battat and one from Infantino.... 
Consensus among my retailer panel and the buyers I speak with has it that the nine movies in the table below will be instrumental in providing growth in a variety of toy categories this year...... |
TDMONTHLY MANUFACTURER'S CORNER |
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Dramatic social, economic and technological forces have transformed our modern day business culture so it barely resembles that of yesterday.... |
TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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Trade shows, catalogs, the Internet, sales reps, retailer networks … there are a lot of ways to find new products!... 
Read “TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom” in our May issue to get an expert mom’s opinion on some of the newest toys and DVDs on the market. And see how Zoobies fared...... 
