TDmonthly's October Staff Picks This month, check out a game in which acquiring debt is a winning tactic, soft-soled modern toddler shoes from Canada, and a sidewalk-chalk curriculum...
10/1/2009
Most-Viewed Articles (last 12 months)
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Is Hasbro's Cash Cow Being Led to Slaughter? For many years, Hasbro’s board game business was boring. Nothing happened of any consequence, there were no new competitors, and the category was as flat as a … well, a board. This is now changing...
4/1/2009
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TDmonthly's Top-10 Most-Wanted Games In January 2009, TDmonthly Magazine polled 56 specialty retailers around the nation about their sales in the games category...
TDmonthly's October Staff Picks This month, check out a game in which acquiring debt is a winning tactic, soft-soled modern toddler shoes from Canada, and a sidewalk-chalk curriculum...
10/1/2009
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Bandthology Tones Minds With Trivia TDmonthly Magazine’s Tweens & Teens Roundtable participants tested their knowledge of popular musical groups, history and trivia when they played Bandthology: The Board Game for Music Lovers...
7/1/2009
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Holiday Preview - Games Whether making matches or blurting out the answer is the way to win, these new games have plenty to offer when it comes to fun and … a little bit of learning, too! See bridges, balancing acts and big bites in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Games...
6/1/2009
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom recently discovered an intriguing twist with a morphed art project, watched her son start to master beginner yo-yo skills, and played with her senses in a game that brought lots of laughter...
5/1/2009
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Toys from ASTRA Exhibitors TDmonthly Magazine's video crew will be in full force at this year's ASTRA Marketplace show in June, but while you await the toy demos featured in our July issue, we'd like you to become familiar with some of the specialty exhibitors...
5/1/2009
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Is Hasbro's Cash Cow Being Led to Slaughter? For many years, Hasbro’s board game business was boring. Nothing happened of any consequence, there were no new competitors, and the category was as flat as a … well, a board. This is now changing...
4/1/2009
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Watch Videos of How Games Played at Toy Fair Your customers need demos before they buy; so do you! So, TDmonthly Magazine has brought you dozens of new game demos on video from the American International Toy Fair in New York...
4/1/2009
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TDmonthly's Top-10 Most-Wanted Games In January 2009, TDmonthly Magazine polled 56 specialty retailers around the nation about their sales in the games category...
3/1/2009
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MORE Secret Lives of Toymakers What is it like to have $100,000 on the line and no buyers? Find out by watching more rough sequences from ToyDirectory's upcoming documentary...
3/1/2009
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Family Pastimes Promotes Cooperative Play In 1970, as Jim Deacove was sitting in his backyard watching neighborhood kids playing games, some “heady insights” occurred to him about the nature of traditional, confrontational game play...
3/1/2009
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Regional Reports: What’s Selling … And Where No name came up more frequently for wooden toys than Melissa & Doug. Whether it’s play food or art supplies, this company led the pack...
3/1/2009
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In This Issue Whether you’re running the show circuit or tidying things up in-store to make room for exciting new products, grab the scoop on what’s new via our Notable & New Toys articles...
2/1/2009
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Games You'll See at Toy Fair In a recent survey of 44 specialty retailers, more than 25 percent of those planning to attend Toy Fair '09 indicated they are most looking forward to finding great new games at the show...
2/1/2009
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Eight Toys Honored With 2009 TDmonthly Award TDmonthly Magazine is proud to recognize its newest award winners, a collection of eight exciting products that stood out among the 29 products selected for TDmonthly's 2009 Specialty Toys Report...
2/1/2009
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom bestowed a top rating (5 out of 5 stars!) to all three of the products she most recently reviewed...
2/1/2009
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What Roundtables Mean for You Throughout the year, TDmonthly Magazine's Roundtable reviewers — parents, their children, and occasionally retailers and experts — don their testing gloves and give their honest feedback about dolls, toys, games and infant products...
1/1/2009
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TDmonthly's Reviews Do the Work for You Did you know TDmonthly Magazine offers many more product reviews than you read about in this section each month, and makes it easy for you to check out evaluations on the types of toys your store might be interested in?...
Roundtable Roundup: Measuring Toys’ Lasting Value TDmonthly Magazine recently checked in with its Roundtable families to find out which toys and games they reviewed from April through October still held their interest and continued to be part of their weekly play...
12/1/2008
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Strategic Word Play Game Earns Reviewers’ Praise TDmonthly Magazine’s Tweens & Teens Roundtable took word play to a higher level with Jumbulaya, the ever-changing word play game … and had so much fun they wanted to play again and again...
TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom In her latest round of reviews, TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom strategized her way through a new board game, learned how to live a healthy lifestyle, and scribbled with some artsy kids...
10/1/2008
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Farming Game Sows Biz Principles in Young Minds TDmonthly Magazine’s Teens and Tweens Roundtable appreciated the realism and educational emphasis of The Farming Game by The Weekend Farmer Co., finding it somewhat complicated, but enjoyably engaging...
9/1/2008
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