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2013 Holiday Toy Preview
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The Toy Industry – Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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Specialty retailers are predicting a better-than- average holiday season, which means you'll be busy, busy, busy! So get your news in a flash with TDmonthly's issue highlights... 
Walt Disney and Warner Brothers plan to soon launch several virtual worlds as interactive online sites for children such as Webkinz World and Club Penguin continue to gain popularity... |
TDMONTHLY HOT TOPIC |
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If you haven’t stocked up on wooden toys, you may be missing out! Spooked by the recalls from China,
holiday buyers are raiding specialty stores for wooden toys, particular those made stateside.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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The 2007 TDmonthly Toy Awards have been announced and the first-ever TDmonthly Specialty Toys Report is out! Now all of the TDmonthly Top Toy 2007 and TDmonthly Innovations 2007 products also have videos attached... |
TDMONTHLY 2008 TOY FAIR PREVIEW |
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Going to Toy Fair, but don't have much time? Decided to stay home this year? Either way... 
Before you hit Toy Fair, check out these new companies who told TDmonthly they were exhibiting at the show for the first time... |
TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK |
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When Hans and Tricia Masing started their lives together, they each worked in fields completely unrelated to toys. Tricia was an engineer in the auto industry and Hans was in information technology, they shared with TDmonthly Magazine.... 
Mixing toys with other merchandise is a method used by several specialty toy-store owners to help increase traffic, customer base and sales, they told TDmonthly Magazine.... 
Suddenly out of out-of-door toys and have to order fast? This month, two retailers spontaneously mentioned... 
If you or your customers want to know more about where specialty toys are made and how they're tested, the 2007 TDmonthly Specialty Toys Report can help... 
The majority of the 79 retailers TDmonthly Magazine surveyed in early November anticipated a strong holiday selling season: 59 percent believe sales will be better than last year, 24 percent think sales will be the same, and 9 percent fear they’ll be worse.... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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As retailers gear up for the holiday season, they’re stocking their shelves with items that are sure to wow their customers. Among 58 retailers who spoke with TDmonthly Magazine, 16 mentioned play kitchens as their ultimate consumer attention-grabber.... 
Although most specialty retailers don’t carry products geared specifically towards adults, there are a few gifts that are popular among kids of all ages — especially games that require thinking.... |
TDMONTHLY TRENDS |
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When 14 retailers were interviewed about hobby product sales, they had varying descriptions of the word “hobby.” Craft kits and art supplies were discussed, as well as toy ships, trains, planes, bikes, cars, kites, rockets, tanks and robots.... 
Wings don’t guarantee that a toy will fly off the shelves, but it’s a good place to start. Of the 17 retailers TDmonthly Magazine surveyed, 10 mentioned strong sales for RC aircraft.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS |
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TDmonthly Magazine’s Preschool Roundtable enjoyed narration by Robert Guillaume and children in Confetti Enterprises’ multi-disk collections of fairy tales... 
TDmonthly Magazine’s Baby Roundtable participants evaluated the LilyBugs Plush Cup Holder made by LilyBugs. One little girl was quite taken with her plush doggie bottle cover... 
This month, TDmonthly Magazine’s Homeschool Roundtable experimented with Überstix’ Animal Kingdom, constructing Überfrog, Übercrab, Überbird and Überbat as well as open-ended creations.... 
TDmonthly Magazine’s brand new Diversity Roundtable recently reviewed Aisha & Co.’s Ishababies, a line of soft plush dolls available in a range of “flavors” designed to represent the global village we live in today.... 
TDmonthly Magazine’s Dolls Roundtable participants were delighted with the price point and playability of the Prima Princess Ballerina Doll by Terri Lee Associates.... 
TDmonthly Magazine’s Multimedia Expert has devoted her career to watching and listening to imaginative creations in a variety of media.... 
Many lands and cultures are the focus of two of the DVDs this month, with a third thrown in that fosters creativity to get there without transportation.... 
If you want to know which books to sell in your toy store, find out what the kids have to say.... 
Dr. Wright doesn’t just look at toys; she analyzes them. In and out of the box, she scrutinizes them for playability, appropriateness and educational value. The latter quality is especially important to this psychologist/mother, who also homeschools her three youngest children.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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Rough seas, pirate ships, swashbuckling adventure. Pirates are popular these days, and Giddy Goose ‘n Gander Games is right in the high seas battle with its two games, Piratack and Piratitan.... 
The first prototype for a Mark-My-Time digital bookmark came out of Maureen Farinella’s constant struggle to track her children’s required reading times, she told TDmonthly Magazine.... 
The Fashion Angels career kits have wowed girls into learning tools of a job trade. Stores keep reordering kits, Goldi Miller, co-owner of the company, told TDmonthly Magazine.... |
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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Given the millions of “Made in China” toys recalled this year, some parents are opting for products made in Europe and the United States, retailers and manufacturers told TDmonthly Magazine.... 
Given the craze over computers and obsessions for being online, thanks in part to Ganz’s Webkinz, it may seem that children have lost interest in good, old-fashioned toys.... 
Clean up your act, was the message Ty’s Ty Girlz got from irate consumers and retailers, who told TDmonthly Magazine they disapproved of the plush-online doll’s Bratz-like face and skimpy clothing.... |
TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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TDmonthly Magazine’s December Toy Sleuth looked about for what's hip, what's happening and what's "Charlie," and lo-and-behold, all sorts of interesting things popped up.... |
TDMONTHLY HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE |
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TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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