July 2010 New Specialty Toys — All

An exquisite game of spatial logic where players attempt to reconstruct 3D models based on 2D images. Logical analysis is brought into play as players progress trying to resolve the more advanced challenges. This ingenious game is for players, 8 years and over, who enjoy sophisticated puzzles.
Awards: Triple Star Canadian Toy Testing Council

Using the Architect precision blocks, players attempt to replicate the Tangram models illustrated in the challenges book. Initially, the puzzles are illustrated on a scale of 1:1 allowing players to experiment on the puzzle surface itself. As players advance, the illustrated models are reduced, thereby introducing the concept of scale. In addition, players are required to use the pieces horizontally and vertically, exposing them intuitively to more advanced concepts in geometry. Tangramino offers creative play for players 6 years and over.
Awards: Triple Star Canadian Toy Testing Council

In this delightful and deceptively simple logic puzzle game, players attempt to figure out the necessary moves that will permit to assemble back Simon, the scattered magician. An escalating level of difficulty allows children to start playing and progress at their own pace. Rather quickly, however, the game attains a level presenting a fun filled challenge to any puzzle loving adult.
Awards: Game of the Year 6/6 Consumer Guide of Canada

It's a great day to be a dog in the park. The sun is shining, there are no cats to be seen... and the tantalizing whiff of a big, crunchy bone can be smelled from somewhere nearby. But shuffling around the patches of turf to dig it up is going to require creativity and cleverness.
Awards: Triple Star Canadian Toy Testing Council 6/6 Consumer Guide of Canada

In this puzzle, players slide the cars and twist the sphere in an effort to park each car beside its matching color spot.

Anyone who can play Tic Tac Toe can learn this seemingly simple game. Trixo is played by up to 4 players. Memory, tactic and a drop of luck are the ingredients needed to prevail.
Awards: Triple Star Canadian Toy Testing Council

Elegant design, natural materials and simple game rules are combined to offer players an exquisite and original game. Each player tries to be the first to place six of their pieces on their opponent’s camp while ensuring that their remaining game pieces are not left too far behind. An environmentally friendly and beautiful game.

An exhibition of rare diamonds is in town and several gangs of thieves are planning a heist. A sharp mind and lightning-quick reflexes may help you outwit these gangsters. So get going!
Awards: Triple Star Canadian Toy Testing Council

The brainchild of Yale professor Donald Green, Octi is easy to learn and fun for game-lovers of all ages. What makes Octi's patented game system distinctive? Octi pieces grow - they become more powerful and agile. Each turn, players decide whether to move their pieces or improve them. By giving players the freedom to design their pieces, Octi unleashes a new level of creative thinking.

This 8" polar bear plush is part of the line of gift and greeting toys that rap and record. Bear E White has a 30-second recording device and can also wrap around wrists, gifts or cribs. The WebRappers website features hundreds of musical greetings and genres in multiple languages to choose from.

This 8" green rabbit plush is part of the line of gift and greeting toys that rap and record. Pita has a 30-second recording device and can also wrap around wrists, gifts or cribs. The WebRappers website features hundreds of musical greetings and genres in multiple languages to choose from.

This classic flower skirt comes in pink, coral and teal and features a satin waistband. The fluffy skirt has an extra layer of colored tulle to add color and depth, and is available in 10" and 13" sizes.

This 9" doll has 36 moving, jointed parts and big eyes that can move back and forth. She wears a big hair bow in her curly blond hair and comes clad in a voluminous pink dress. Sakura's accessories include gloves, stockings, a purse, and a doll stand.

This 12" fashion doll has 36 moving, jointed parts and big eyes that can blink and move back and forth. She has brown hair and wears a red coat and headscarf accessorized with a green checked handbag and striped stockings. A doll stand is included.

This 9" doll, inspired by the Sanrio character, has 36 moving, jointed parts and big eyes that can move back and forth. She has teal hair and comes with a trading card, doll stand and two outfits.

This Read Along Storybook, the first in a series of five, is a companion piece to Queetles plush toys.

Featuring a padded cover and sturdy board book pages for easy handling, this 24-page book follows inquisitive Caillou as he explores the zoo and finds all kinds of interesting wild animals. Each page features a different animal and its name, including a panther, tiger, parrot and giraffe.

Automobile™ carries you back to the birth of America’s car industry, when inventors, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs created a wild array of marvels and misfortunes. You step into this rough, romantic trade hoping to create a fortune by building and selling cars. Tapping the talents of men like Ford, Sloan, Kettering, Howard, Durant, and Chrysler, you balance quality versus quantity, mass production versus premium branding, and innovation versus distribution and aggressive sales. Lose your balance and you go bust. Strike the best balance, shift the right gears to best your rivals, and you’ll be rich. You might even win. So, pull up your sleeves and start making cars.

For 3-5 Players. Playing Time 90-120 minutes.

Kids can take this colorful deer pet on wild adventures, and can even write home on the included postcard. This set comes with starfish and seaweed accessories and a postcard.

Kids can add a dash of creativity to this bear pet with the included stencils, stickers and colorful markers.

The 8" Riley doll wears a breezy blue and white cotton dress and a coordinating red and blue jacket. Completing the look are a nautical beret, white socks and blue canvas mary-janes.

The 14" Piper doll wears a sleeveless three-tiered cotton butterfly-print top in dreamy hues of blue, green and turquoise. Her shoes and capris match her top, and she comes with a monarch butterfly perched on her hand. She has long blonde hair pinned to one side with a flower.

In this paperback children's book, a little girl named Lily travels into space to talk to the moon.

This 12" plush is designed to be both cute and edgy. He is ultra-soft and comes in a stylized flattened shape.