January 2014 Notable Toys — General Toys

Funnybones is part skill, part tradition…and ALL fun! And, with 30 game challenges, the excitement never ends. Funnybones dates to the Greek and Roman periods & now this game is played in many places around the world. Funnybone Toys is thrilled to introduce its special version in the US, with game challenges ranging from easy to difficult! These include Overhand Ones, Twos, Threes and Fours; Clicks; Horses in the Stable; Eggs in the Basket - and more! Brief instructional videos of each challenge are posted on Funnybone Toys’ YouTube channel. Players improve hand-eye coordination as they tackle the challenges. Funnybones is great to practice alone and play with others while taking turns.

Spatial awareness and geometric patterns are great to learn about when you have a big morphing models. The Geometry construction set is made of interlocking geometric shapes. with the amazing morphing power of KnuckleStrutz joints, these building toys can transform, while all of the pieces still connected! With its many pieces, you can also build the Hyper Bike from our main product line.
• 514 pieces
• Create shapes that dynamically morph
• Build complex models with basic geometry
• Also includes instructions for the Hyper Bike motorcycle

With the Knuckz Delux, our biggest standard building set yet, you can assemble the Engine 29 fire truck and the Big Rig semi truck! You can also build 6 other models! Use the 397 pieces (including 12 gears and 10 tires) to construct any model you can imagine!
• 397 pieces
• Can build 8 models
• comes with 22 gears and 10 wheel tires

Introducing the GYRO Nano Hercules 3.5CH Electric RTF RC Helicopter! The Nano Hercules Body can hold someone stepping on it! This RC helicopter has super strong polymer frame which lets it hold up to 200 pounds of force! This awesome Helicopter comes with the greatest advancement in Helicopter Technology, a Gyro! No more crashing, no more replacing parts, the GYRO has changed the Helicopter industry completely, making this RC Helicopter super easy to fly. Great for people of all skill levels, this bad boy features a coaxial rotor a single rear rotor for precise movement and a GYRO for increased stability whether flying or hovering. Controlling the Hercules is a breeze. It can go forward, backward, up, down, left, right and hover. What really makes the GYRO Hercules stand out is the built in gyroscope making it automatically stabilize allowing you to focus on flying instead of trying not to make it crash. This product is ready to fly, there is no assembly required. Just put in 6 AA batteries into the transmitter and charge the helicopter's rechargeable battery with the integrated charging cable on the transmitter or use the included USB Port Charger and you are good to go! Be the coolest kid on the block by getting the GYRO Nano Hercules 3.5CH Electric RTF RC Helicopter!

Get ready for Zipperoos! Now a child can enjoy both a portable game and the fun of a plush animal in the same toy. Children can collect more than one Zipperoos game: Monkey’s Wild and Frantic Frog are available now. These simple and fun games each come with their own high-quality plush animal carrying case. Each Zipperoos plush has a zippered pouch in its back so children can store their new game inside their animal friend. Or, they can use the pouch as a hiding spot for anything they like! These fun games and furry friends are sure to find a home with any family!
Two fun versions
Frantic Frog:   Fast reaction card game.   Grab little hopper to claim the cards any time they match 
Monkey's Wild:  Help the animals find their friends in this set collecting tile game.  Monkey's are wild!

Beautiful feathers are turned into a fun pen. These feather pens can add a touch of whimsy and style to your writing. It’s a great item to add when using a guestbook. 

White Mountain Puzzles is the exclusive licensee of the Terry Redlin Collection. America's most widely collected painter of Nature and Americana.

A 1,000 piece collage of vintage candy wrappers. Our #1 selling jigsaw puzzle in the U.S.
Awards: 2014 TDmonthly Magazine Top Toy Award

Kids love to move…and what could make movement more fun than the inspiration of sparkling LED lights powered by kids’ own movement?!  Our new WHIP’N’SKIP is a modern update on a very popular, classic toy from the 90’s.  Though the basic movement is easy to learn, it’s a challenge to keep it going, a feat of balance, endurance, and coordination.  To play, simply attach the tether to one leg and begin rolling the disc ball on the ground in a circular pattern around your body.  With each revolution, your other leg must hop or skip over the tether.  Kids get their competitive juices flowing to see who can skip the longest, and record the highest score on the ball’s built-in counter, while being mesmerized by the motion-activated LED lights (especially in the dark).  It’s a great way to build coordination, balancing skills, and burn off energy so kids don’t even realize they’re getting an invigorating workout.  Requires 3 x AG13 batteries.  Ages 8 & Up.

I Spy: A Book Of Picture Riddles
The classic debut title in the national best-selling series! Each rhyming riddle in this bright collection of photographic challenges invites children to find objects hidden throughout thematic pages. "This is a true eye-opener," raved the Los Angeles Times about this California Children's Media Award winner.
— Barb Stine, owner of Toys on the Square in Hershey, Pa., told TDmonthly in a December 2013 survey that this is one of their best-selling books.

Tracer Racers utilize Light Trail TechnologyTM as they blaze streaks of light on Skullduggery's patented Glow-in-the-Dark track. Each Tracer RacerTM beams down purple light rays from its undercarriage onto track specially engineered to emit glow remnants long after the racer has passed. One of four new Tracer RacerTM drag racing sets, and a dimly lit room, is all that is needed to set the darkness ablaze.

Get set for traintastic fun with Chuggington™! Based on the popular TV series Chuggington™, Bachmann has introduced two HO Scale Chuggington™ electric train sets. Wilson’s Freight Adventures features a Wilson locomotive with operating headlight, low-sided gondola and box car. Brewster’s Cargo Caper features a Brewster locomotive with operating headlights and two colorful hopper cars. Both ready-to-run sets include a 36-inch circle of snap-fit E-Z Track®, power pack, speed controller and illustrated instruction manual. Separate-sale locomotives and rolling stock are also available to start or expand your collection. Make tracks to Toy Fair Booth #1241 to see Bachmann Trains’ full line of Thomas & Friends™ and Chuggington™ products.

Now you can hear Thomas’ steam sounds! With an analog sound system including whistle, puffs, and steam exhaust upon stopping, this sound-equipped Thomas with moving eyes brings to life the sights and sounds of the Island of Sodor.

The XV104 Riptide is a technological marvel of the Tau Empire.  The model is huge, towering over the battlefield – even tanks look small next to it!  Sleek armor panels, along with bolts and grills, cover its body.  Despite its enormous size, with ball and socket joints it remains a maneuverable model whose arms and legs can be posed in a variety of different ways.  Either standing tall or even kneeling down, it can be used as a unique, dynamic centerpiece for a Tau army.

The XV104 Riptide is a technological marvel of the Tau Empire.  The model is huge, towering over the battlefield – even tanks look small next to it!  Sleek armor panels, along with bolts and grills, cover its body.  Despite its enormous size, with ball and socket joints it remains a maneuverable model whose arms and legs can be posed in a variety of different ways.  Either standing tall or even kneeling down, it can be used as a unique, dynamic centerpiece for a Tau army.

Best-Sellers 1 contains the boxed products from our best-selling ranges. Many of the products in this range are the ones first selected by new hobbyists (and thus are amongst our fastest sellers), including the boxed games for each of our gaming systems and the Hobby Starter Set. Assembling and painting of miniatures is a key part of the Games Workshop hobby. The hobby products in this range (paints, brushes, etc) provide a wide range of price points (complementing the higher price points of the boxed products) and as they are constantly in demand, mean your customers will return again and again on a regular basis to your store to refill their supplies (and of course check out all the other products).

Best-Sellers 1 contains the boxed products from our best-selling ranges. Many of the products in this range are the ones first selected by new hobbyists (and thus are amongst our fastest sellers), including the boxed games for each of our gaming systems and the Hobby Starter Set. Assembling and painting of miniatures is a key part of the Games Workshop hobby. The hobby products in this range (paints, brushes, etc) provide a wide range of price points (complementing the higher price points of the boxed products) and as they are constantly in demand, mean your customers will return again and again on a regular basis to your store to refill their supplies (and of course check out all the other products).

Want to boost their fine motor and visual thinking skills? You want Imaginets. The sturdy wood carrying case features durable hinges and rope handles that are perfect for little hands to grasp. Inside, brightly-colored magnetic blocks can be arranged on the boards to replicate any of the 50 full-color design challenges, including animals, faces, vehicles, sports, structures and more. Plus, the magnetic board surface doubles as a dry-erase board, so kids can decorate a backdrop for their creations.

Where to buy:
NORTH WEST

Scented Scoops is an ice cream party playset that smells good enough to eat. The 6”x9” beech wood serving tray holds six, three-inch White birch “cones”. Each cone can be topped with one or more of the six, deliciously scented two-inch “scoops” made from 100% compostable corn starch bio-resin (two vanilla, two chocolate and two strawberry. Great for role-play, Scented Scoops is recommended for ages 4+

Where to buy:
NORTH EAST

Build your own adventures with the LEGO® City Starter Set featuring 5 minifigures, an ambulance, police motorcycle, fire truck and accessories.
— In a May 2015 survey, four of 11 retailers told TDmonthly that LEGO was their best-selling line of construction toys.

Where to buy:
NORTH EAST
NORTH WEST

Apply pressure to two Squigz. Air rushes out and the fun rushes in! Connecting to each other and to any solid, non-porous surface - Squigz are a species all their own. They flex. They stick. They suck people into creativity. Once they take hold, it takes some pull to separate them. When Squigz POP! in protest - you’ll have to admit… your hands and ears are shamelessly delighted!
— Jenni Mallory, manager of Magic Box LTD in New Orleans, La., told TDmonthly in a March 2014 survey that Squigz was a best-selling product.
— David Castillo, vice president of The Red Balloon Toy Store in Salt Lake City, Utah, told TDmonthly in a November 2014 survey that Squigz from Fat Brain Toys is one of their store's best-selling toys.


Where to buy:
NORTH EAST
NORTH WEST

The mind-blowing Demolition Lab lets kids build unlimited warehouse structures and then demolish them with strategically placed blasters, all while getting inside the science of energy, momentum and gravity! Includes Triple-blast detonator with sounds and 3 blasters, 36 wall panels, 17 floors/roof tops, 2 smokestacks, 2 trusses, 2 pipe bridges, 1 storage tank, Footing clips, Booklet.

Where to buy:
NORTH EAST

Handmade of soft, fair trade cotton, the PHD Pocket Disc is ideal for throwing indoors or out. Stuff it in your pocket or pack, it's easy to throw and catch for ages 3 and up. 8" diameter.

Where to buy:
SOUTH

The CATERPILLAR Multi terrain loader is truly multi-functional. Powerful, flexible and mobile: it is the number one choice for any small area. The functions of the CAT Multi terrain loader are comparable to those of the CATERPILLAR compact loader, but the Multi terrain loader has a rubber-chain drive, creating a much lower ground pressure. It is great fun seeing how precisely the chains work while you move the CAT Multi terrain loader over all types of surface, particularly when playing. The movable arm of the CAT Multi terrain loader can be locked in many positions and reach particularly high thanks to its special construction. An adaptor for at-tachments already used on several BRUDER vehicles allows the CATERPILLAR Multi terrain loader and its attached equipment to master all types of work in no time.

Where to buy:
SOUTH