Tween Toys Get Taped: Watch Bakugan and MORE

Laser Pegs are a construction set in which each piece feeds the next piece low-voltage current. Users can build or create anything they want with the Laser Pegs and use them lit up or turned off. All parts of the Laser Pegs are ASTM tested and federally approved. Once one Laser Peg is connected to the power source, it then illuminates any other peg it is connected with. "The Laser Pegs are the world's only illuminated construction set that allows kids or adults to piece together light one peg at a time," Jon Capriola, CEO of Laser Pegs Ventures, LLC, told TDmonthly. This product was named one of Dr. Toy's 100 Best Children's Products 2009. Launch date: June 9, 2009.
— As of 05/13/2011 this product had 4.5 out of 5 stars from two reviews on Amazon.com.
— Joe Beradoni, owner of Pun's Toys in Bryn Mawr, Pa., told TDmonthly in a Summer 2011 survey about best-selling toys that they "sell 10-15 of [the] $24.99 price and 4-5 of [the] $44.99 price per week."

This patent-pending kit of nearly 1,000 beads features various colors that each represent a letter, number and space, so that kids can create bracelets and other accessories with their own secret messages to be decoded. The kit includes 20 decoder cards, 15 feet of lacing with closures, labels, and instructions.
Awards: 2010 WTS "What The Stuff" Five Star; A TDmonthly Classics Award for being an all-time favorite toy.

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The flexible wire inside this 6.75" black mustaches allows it to be shaped in various styles, including the friendly barber, the stern general and the dapper dandy. It comes with a rubber piece that clips to the nose.
— Two of 38 specialty retailers mentioned mustaches as a best-selling novelty item in fall 2008. Michelle Bears, owner of The Toy Store in Highlands, N.C., told TDmonthly her store sells about 48 Accoutrements fake mustaches per month.
— Donna Frederick, owner of The Play House Toy Store in Durham, N.C., told TDmonthly in a December 2011 survey about Halloween that, "Accoutrements sells a set of novelty mustaches that is very popular."

Kids use the mini translucent figures to unlock alien lights and sounds. The Ultimate Omnitrix comes with one mini translucent figure that attaches to the base and unlocks the alien's special image and sound. Kids can collect all 10 mini translucent figures — each one unlocks its own unique holographic figure and sounds. Launch date: July 2009.

Featuring a cover image of a strong horse running in a field of flowers, this diary contains 240 colored pages with lines for writing. It includes a lock with two keys and measures 6 3/8” x 6 ¼” x 1.
— In fall 2009, three of 39 retailers named journals and diaries as best sellers for tween girls.
— Diana Nelson, owner of Kazoo & Co. in Denver, told TDmonthly her store sells 8 to 10 journals from Peaceable Kingdom Press each month.

This kit takes cookie making to a whole new level of creativity and fun. Each kit is loaded with everything you need to make, bake and decorate world class ORGANIC cookies. Each kit contains all the dry ingredients and a large step-by-step Safari Baking Map with instructions designed for kids age 4-12. The map is double sided, side one has easy-to-follow instructions for making cookies (in a format designed for non-readers to fluent readers) and the other side has a "Cookie Idea Map", with decorating techniques and fun ideas to get kids thinking about design. Like how to apply abstract art principles and color to decorating. No stencils or cut-outs in this kit, Zebra Mix is designed to let kids run with their own creativity to start Stirring Up Fun!® Each kit includes: organic sugar cookie mix, organic icing mix, high-quality Fiesta silicone coated rolling pin, dragonfly and flower cookie cutters and Zebra Mix's famous instructional Safari Baking Map.
— "Kids In the kitchen isn't too new, but Zebra Mix does a great version with printed recipe mats and whimsy," John MacDougall, owner of Golden Apple Learning Store in Pleasanton, Calif., said of this preferred product line at Toy Fair 2010.

The Bakubowl Arena from Spin Master brings together kids and their Bakugan Battle Brawlers together for a fast-paced game. Stored in stations behind the Bakuramps around the edges of the circular arena, Bakugan wait to be launched into battle by the ramps where they will strive to win against their opponents' team. The arena accommodates up to four players.
— “Bakugan Battle Brawlers is flying off the shelves,” Katherine L. King, manager of Giggles Toys & More in Bozeman, Mont., told TDmonthly about her best-selling gifts for boys in June 2009.

The kit contains everything you need for a delicious afternoon of creativity and fun. Start Stirring Up Fun® by following the large Safari Baking Map with step-by-step instructions to make delicious cupcakes and frosting and then flip over the map to learn about simple decorating tools, find artistic inspiration and follow step-by-step pictures for creating geometric, animal inspired and artistic cupcakes. Kids can even exhibit pictures of their cupcakes in the Zebra Kids Art Gallery at zebramix.com Each Kit includes: cupcake mix, frosting mix, all-natural decorating sugars in three colors, re-usable Frosting Decorating Pen, zebra striped cupcake papers and our unique fold-out Safari Baking Map.

Printies™ Design Studio kits and refill packs are created as affordable at-home activity kits that allow children to take their online design creations offline like never before. Using their home PCs, inkjet printers and special patent-pending Printies™ fabric sheets, children can bring their online designs to life as soft, 3-D, collectible stuffed toys. It’s simple: they design online at MyPrinties.com, print on both sides of Printies fabric sheets with any inkjet printer, tear along the perforated shape and pop out the Printies design, stuff it, and put it on display. Launch date: Fall 2009.