This sturdy dollhouse comes "ready-to-play" with a full set of furniture and a family of 6 flexible wooden dolls. The front panels open for easy play, while the roof panel opens to reveal a loft attic. The exterior is beautifully hand-painted and features functional doors and windows. A robust staircase leads upstairs and a sliding back door leads outside.
— One trend [in playsets] is away from screws and hinges and toward designs that fit together. This reduces the damage that can occur during shipping, and also prevents injury to children," Eric Meade of Top Shelf Holdings told TDmonthly. "Many of our Heritage Playsets have NO screws at all; They assemble in minutes just by slotting together, yet they are very sturdy once assembled. "

This action-inspiring playset will have young ones make knights and wizards climb castle walls and fight for the king's honor across a working draw bridge. Figures who don't watch their step will be cast into the dungeon, thrown out of windows or made to fall through the courtyard's working trap door. Even the set's two warhorses aren't safe from enemy fire. The set includes six flexible wooden figures, two flags and two warhorses.

The new iggiBig line's Shape Sorting Barn allows children to sort nine different animal blocks by fitting them each in their own cutout. Each cutout is covered by a safely hinged door, so the toy also functions as a memory or "peek-a-boo" that parent and child can enjoy together.

Children love to "saddle up" with this colorful equestrian playset, which comes ready-to-play with four realistic horses with bridles and removable English saddles, two jumps, one saddle horse, and four flexible wooden equestrian dolls. The buildings feature five working doors and the roof pieces can be removed for plenty of "indoor" and "outdoor" play. The set assembles in minutes without screws or hardware. Launch date: March 1, 2007.
— “This year Top Shelf Holdings LLC has pushed the envelope of our ‘ready-to-play playset’ concept by combining different materials and components — whatever is necessary to make the perfect equestrian playset,” Eric Meade of Top Shelf Holdings told TDmonthly. "Heritage Playsets includes all the figures, animals and other accessories that a child would need to play with the playset immediately."

This elegant dollhouse features beautiful dormer windows, exquisite brickwork, and working windows and doors. The set includes six rooms of furniture and a family of six dolls, who can go upstairs via a sturdy staircase or out to the backyard through French doors. A hatch door grants access to the loft attic. The house assembles in minutes. Launch date: March 15, 2007.

This award-winning building block set includes 48 painted hardwood pieces, drawn from architectural styles from around the world. With Russian domes, Roman arches and Middle Eastern towers, children can build their own "global village." The blocks come packed in a sturdy storage crate.
— “This set is bigger, brighter and more vibrant, and includes a greater variety of styles than other building blocks and architectural blocks on the market. Since it includes many architectural styles all in one set, it stimulates a child's imagination while exposing them to different shapes and styles,” Owner Matthew Peake of Top Shelf Holdings told TDmonthly. “We also have gone more up-market in terms of material,” he added about the iggiBig line. “We use rubberwood whenever possible.”

The Medieval Entourage Doll Set includes an archer, a damsel, a monk and a court jester.  The archer, monk and court jester each come with a unique accessory.  All dolls stand approximately 4” tall.

Dreams come true in this fairy tale palace. With a realistic footbridge, working doors and windows, a rope ladder, a secret entrance and a set of six flexible wooden figures, this playset will provide years of imaginative play.

It's natural to love this playful wildlife reserve, where animals feed, sleep, play and hide as a child's imagination unfolds. It features working doors, a ladder, sliding gates, two feeding troughs and 12 realistic wild animals.

Children will wake at the crack of dawn to play with this deluxe farm set. Removable roof pieces and four fully functional doors provide plenty of "indoor" and "outdoor" play. This barn play set includes two flexible wooden farmers, a wheelbarrow and shovel, a ladder, two bales of hay, two feeding troughs, and six realistic farm animals.

The fun is "open 24 hours" at this parking garage, car wash and service station. With a fully functional elevator, access gate and petrol pumps, this deluxe play set can really "jump-start" a child's imagination. This auto center play set is perfect for a child to play alone or with up to four other children.

A picnic meal complete with plates, silverware and cutting board. Bottle caps are magnetic and removable, and there is plenty of picnic food to slice and serve!

Learn to count "family-style" with this ingenious stacking toy. Mix and match the wooden blocks, or follow the colors to stack your way up to five.

This four-soldier set is great for stand alone play, or in addition to the Castle of Legends play set. Each solder comes equipped with either a sword or a bow.

This four-figure play set is great for stand alone play, or in addition to any other play set. Each figure in the set is a child of a different ethnicity.

Kids can "break-the-ice" with this beautiful arctic play set, the first of Top Shelf Holdings’ Natural Habitat Series. The set includes two flexible wooden Inuit figures, a papoose, an igloo, ice slides, an ice-fishing hole and six realistic polar animals. "Long have we lamented, in the educational toy business, playsets and other products constantly pairing the dapper penguin family with the friendly neighborhood polar bear. This collection features fauna from both the arctic and antarctic regions of the globe, as well as informational materials about the animals themselves," said TDmonthly reporter and toy-store buyer Marie Raven at Toy Fair 2008. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

Young minds are "cleared for take-off" with this two-level passenger terminal featuring a boarding gate, check-in counter, runway, control tower and baggage claim area with a working carousel. Flexible wooden figures of various ethnicities include two pilots, a flight attendant, two passengers, and a tarmac worker to direct the three-seat passenger jet as it taxis up to the gate. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

This set of five colorful insect capes will create quite a "buzz" on a nature walk or family outing. Great for indoor and outdoor play, as party favors, or as costumes for an educational play, these fun capes inspire the imagination. The packaging features a wealth of fun facts about each insect species. They are made from soft and safe EVA foam and are also available in a school assortment of 20 capes (item #551), perfect for team activities and chaperoned field trips. Launch date: July 1, 2008.

Imaginations run wild on this Dinosaur Island, complete with dark caverns, a fiery volcano, a secret cave, a trap door, and a pterodactyl nest atop a mountain peak. As an addition to Top Shelf Holdings’ educational and fun Natural Habitat Series, this playset includes six realistic dinosaurs and a sheet of fun facts about a child's favorite prehistoric creatures. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

This deluxe playset features two horse stalls, a hay elevator, two functional sets of barn doors, a roof that flips up for hayloft access, six realistic farm animals, a ladder and two hay bales. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

This deluxe farm playset will "work the land" of your child's imagination. The set includes two flexible wooden farmers, six realistic farm animals, a ladder, a wheelbarrow and a shovel, two feeding troughs and two hay bales. Working doors and removable roof pieces provide for plenty of "indoor" and "outdoor" play. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

Kids can roam the wild plains and rocky crags of Africa under the expert guidance of a park ranger. Wildlife abounds as one tours the terrain in a rugged jeep and climbs a rope ladder to the top branches of a multi-level tree  Part of our educational Natural Habitat Series, this set features six lifelike animals and fun facts about their environment. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

Even the youngest horse-lovers will delight in these sweet and inviting stables where the next equestrian champion is now in training. The set includes a rider, a horse with removable English saddle, a wheelbarrow and shovel, two hay bales, a horse jump, and five free-standing white fence pieces. Launch date: June 15, 2008.

This family of six flexible dolls includes grandparents, parents and two children. Launch date: February 15, 2008.

This set for preschoolers includes 12 fuzzy, realistic animals. Launch date: February 15, 2008.