March 2010 Notable Toys — All

Kids practice their skillfulness as they help Scooby-Doo try to keep his balance atop a column of “Shaggys.” On each roll of the die, players see if they have to add or take away another Shaggy. The player who doesn’t make Scooby come crashing down wins. For one to four players.

In this game of skill, players must take turns carefully pushing out bricks one by one without letting Scooby-Doo and Shaggy fall from atop the wall. For two or more players.

Kids play along with their favorite characters from Jeff Kinney’s bestselling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book series in this socially-interactive board game. Players move their game pieces — including Greg, Rowley, Fregley and Manny — around the game board and complete different challenges to see how well they know each other. The player who advances to the finish by answering the most questions correctly wins. For three to four players.
— Lynda Blankenship, owner of Smart Toys & Books in Knoxville, Tenn., told TDmonthly in late Spring 2011 that this game was her store's best-selling licensed product.
— As of 05/13/2011 this product had 4 out of 5 stars from 8 reviews on Amazon.com. Pros: Entertaining for the whole family. Cons: Needs to be played by at least 4 people to be fun, according to one reviewer; rules are complicated for younger players.

The classic game that’s been sharpening deductive skills for decades comes in a vertical version designed for kids. Players take turns being the codemaker and the codebreaker, asking yes or no questions while secretly stacking their animals into a tower. There are three levels of play to master as players try to guess what animals are hiding in each location. For two or more players.

The fast-moving rummy game replaces its tiles in this eight-round card game. Each increasingly difficult round has a different goal and different ways for players to make sets and get points. For two to six players.

Classic Disney characters help preschoolers learn about numbers, colors and shape recognition in this version of Rummikub. It features three levels of game play and is designed for two to four players.

This ship hoists a yellow submachine attached by hook and rope for imaginative journeys through the depths of the ocean. The boat’s nine built-in layers of storage space contain 44 figures, including deep-sea divers, shipwrecked items and various forms of sea life. A bonus DVD is included with the story of Captain Nemo plus interactive sea games. Launch date: April 2010.
Awards: 2010 Dr. Toy Best Vacation Products

This stack-and-play dog house comes complete with fencing, dog cages, feeding dishes, a main dog house, a variety of pups, a cat, a bunny and a bird. There are 44 accessories in eight stackable layers of storage that create this imaginative play environment. A bonus DVD is included with the story of B-I-N-G-O and interactive games. Launch date: April 2010.

Teifoc allows kids to build with real bricks made from high-quality materials. The mortar is made from a mixture of fine sand and a corn-extract, easy to create by just adding water. Teifoc offers many sets that include all materials needed to build housing structures. The bricks are reusable after immersion in water for a few hours. After the cement is dissolved, the bricks are easy to clean with fresh water. Launch date: June 2010 (U.S.).

Turbospoke is the re-imagining of a classic playtime activity that many parents will remember; putting a baseball card in the spokes of their bike. Turbospoke brings this simple idea right up-to-date and allows parents to share this wonderful childhood experience with their own children.Turbospoke - the Bicycle Exhaust System makes any bike look and sound like a motorbike!! It attaches to a child's bike in under 5 minutes and using durable plastic cards and a realistic megaphone exhaust pipe it makes awesome motorcycle sounds as you cycle. The sound is generated by the card vibrating in the spokes of the bicycle wheel and the exhaust pipe captures the sound and amplifies it. The harder you pedal, the better it sounds. It looks cool, sounds awesome and transforms kids bikes! Turbospoke is also very rare for a toy product as it has been seen more than 25million times on YouTube. Turbospoke is so much fun that it naturally encourages active outdoor play. It gets children out on their bikes again and exercising. It also brings the opportunity for parents and children to cycle together which is a wonderful thing.
Awards: 2015 TDmonthly Magazine Top Toy Award; 2012 - Tillywig Toy Award - 'Top Fun' Category, USA; 2012 - Toyology Outdoor Toy Awards - Winner, UK.
— As of 10/01/2012 this product had 3.5 out of 5 stars from 27 reviews on Amazon.com. Pros: A fun accessory for bikes; sounds like a motorbike. Cons: Several users reported quality control issues.

Earloomz is a lightweight, all-in-one earpiece that combines Bluetooth technology with a bold fashion statements, featuring anything from pop-culture designs to sports teams to cheetah print. Launch date: Spring 2010.

Made from soft bamboo velour and natural corn fiber filling, this take-along friend features tug and teethe elements for baby. Launch date: May 2010.

One in a collection of William Wegman puzzles offered by Buffalo Games, this 500-piece puzzle features Weimaraner Stanley in a hat and bowtie.

In this game designed by Klaus Teber, three to four players who are immigrants to Catan must develop their colony on the island by establishing roads, villages and settlements and making strategic trades of bricks and lumber, livestock or other commodities to obtain necessary resources. Play takes about 60 to 90 minutes. The first player to 10 points wins. "The new edition was released three years ago and has sold more copies in those three years than the first, second or third editions combined," Bob Carty, Sales & Marketing Director, Mayfair Games, told TDmonthly in early 2010.
— In August 2010, five percent of 43 retailers surveyed named The Settlers of Catan an overall top seller. The same month, Steven Levy, owner of Toy City in Keene, New Hampshire, told TDmonthly his store sells approximately three Settlers of Catan games per week.
— “It's real easy to teach, and then you just develop strategies from there," Mike Snyder, owner and manager of Cville's Hobbies, Games and Toys in Charlottesville, Va., told TDmonthly in a February 2012 survey about best selling games. Cville's sells 16-20 copies of the game each month.
— As of 12/17/2012 this product had 4.7 out of 5 stars from 632 reviews on Amazon.com.

Featuring a variety of prints and fabrics, this 10.5" pig shows off lively pink and green and a sizeable snout. Launch date: 2010.

This version of Ronronos has all the style and personality of the plush Deglingos pal formed into a sleek rubber ducky for bathtime. Launch date: 2010.

This 24-pack of collectible, glow-in-the-dark rubber bands features the following shapes in various colors: Captain Jack the Pirate, Petey the Parrot, Crossbones, Pirate Ship, Anchor and Sword. These bands are designed to be worn around the wrist and traded. When not in use, they bounce back to their original shape.

This high-fashion pooch doubles as a cute coin purse, decked out in rose-embossed, silk-like fabric. The small zippered compartment is designed to hold a bit of makeup and cash, and opens with the bone-cross zipper pull. The Frenchie wristlet measures about 5" long.

Standing about 10" tall, this 9" pit bull pup is decked out in gray and white modacrylic fur and a fashionable striped, stretch T-shirt and leatherette jacket. He's got a diamond stud in his right ear and wears the Fuzzy Nation cross-bone puff pendant on his removable metal ball chain.

Wow! Wow! Everyone in Wuzzleburg is getting involved in saving the planet! In these earth-friendly episodes, Wubbzy, Widget, Walden and Daizy must find a new place for the Wuzzle Bears to live, think up creative ways to reuse juice bottles and learn to grow their own doodleberries. Your pre-schooler will discover important lessons about ecology, harmony, and personal responsibility while enjoying plenty of singing and dancing. Launch Date: Apr. 6th, 2010.

Lewis Cardinal’s First Winter/El primer invierno de Luis, el cardinal, is the first of its kind interactive bilingual (English/Spanish) vdoBug compatible DVD from Raven Tree Press’s interactive bilingual (English/Spanish) children’s book of the same name. With the vdoBug children can read along with the book or simply watch the DVD as the pages come to life in either English or Spanish, watch videos of the animals in the book in their natural habitat, listen to music, print out pictures and color along as well as working crossword puzzles with the English to Spanish vocabulary words in the book. This first of its kind DVD and the vdoBug make it fun and so easy for children to move at their own pace while learning to read in their own as well as a second language.

Mazerella Brother’s Digging for Dinosaurs is a Parents Choice Approved DVD that allows children to pick up a shovel with Professor Fossilworth and search for clues from millions of years ago that will teach them about the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This DVD is formatted into 10 chapters and includes a cutout with a picture from each chapter which fits under the vdoBug buttons so children can easily move between chapters or skip to their favorite.

Baby Prodigy, Dookie and Dotties Baby Pre-school is a DVD from the award winning Baby Prodigy series and is an entertaining educational adventure for pre-school age children formatted into 10 chapters to work with the vdoBug. A cutout with a picture from each chapter which fits under the vdoBug buttons is included so children can easily move between chapters or skip to their favorite.

VdoBug is a DVD remote for children which easily programs to the adult DVD player allowing children to move between interactive pages or chapters of our compatible DVDs. Each compatible DVD comes with a picture cutout with a scene from each chapter which fits under the 10 large buttons so children can easily recognize their favorite chapter.