How a 5-MINUTE CHALLENGE® Trumps Challenging Times On the prowl for a product that meets the needs of the times, TDmonthly Magazine and TOYDIRECTORY took a trip to Redondo Beach to visit Kathie and Marshall Gavin, founders of b. dazzle, inc. and makers of Scramble Squares® brain-teaser puzzles...
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My Best Sellers: The Tutoring Toy At The Tutoring Toy in Salt Lake City, Utah, Owners Diane and Bill Sartain believe that “play is the work of children...
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom focused on gaming in her most recent reviews, finding fun with frogs, watching kids become a wizard’s apprentices, and seeing how the features of Blue Orange’s Double Shutter Jr. added up...
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MagnaPlay Cases Hit Market in Just Months MagnaPlay, a magnet toy company, grew from a project that scientist Maya Gowri was working on with her 10-year-old son, who had to develop a board game for a class project, she told TDmonthly Magazine...
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How a 5-MINUTE CHALLENGE® Trumps Challenging Times On the prowl for a product that meets the needs of the times, TDmonthly Magazine and TOYDIRECTORY took a trip to Redondo Beach to visit Kathie and Marshall Gavin, founders of b. dazzle, inc. and makers of Scramble Squares® brain-teaser puzzles...
10/1/2009
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My Best Sellers: The Tutoring Toy At The Tutoring Toy in Salt Lake City, Utah, Owners Diane and Bill Sartain believe that “play is the work of children...
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Puzzles In June 2009, TDmonthly Magazine asked 47 specialty retailers about their best-selling puzzles...
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MagnaPlay Cases Hit Market in Just Months MagnaPlay, a magnet toy company, grew from a project that scientist Maya Gowri was working on with her 10-year-old son, who had to develop a board game for a class project, she told TDmonthly Magazine...
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom focused on gaming in her most recent reviews, finding fun with frogs, watching kids become a wizard’s apprentices, and seeing how the features of Blue Orange’s Double Shutter Jr. added up...
12/1/2008
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Turning Electronic Appeals Into Specialty Deals Despite constant advances in the technology market with gadgets, games and computers, as well as electronic toys for children, many specialty toy stores consciously keep their product selection founded in more traditional toys...
12/1/2008
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In This Issue First, let me tell you what’s new at ToyDirectory.com! We’ve redesigned the homepage to serve as a comprehensive research center — based on our communication with retailers and manufacturers every month...
11/1/2008
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GeoPuzzle Teaches Homeschoolers European Geography TDmonthly Magazine’s Homeschool Roundtable studied geography the fun way by constructing GeoToys’ GeoPuzzle Europe piece by piece. Their reviews show that the hands-on geography lesson was a huge hit...
8/1/2008
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TDmonthly’s Psychologist Mom In her latest round of reviews, TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom found a 3-D puzzle up to the challenge, brushed up on world geography, and studied phonics in a flash...
8/1/2008
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ThinkFun Puzzles Set Brains on Fire When husband and wife Bill Richie and Andrea Barthello co-founded Binary Arts in 1985, they started with the premise that “having fun is a great way to learn"...
7/1/2008
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U.S.-Made Buffalo Games Grow With Good Marketing Buffalo Games began in 1986 as a family business. When Mark Predko, now director of sales and marketing, joined Buffalo Games in 1994, there were only seven people running the company, he told TDmonthly Magazine...
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TDmonthly’s Top-10 Most-Wanted Licensed Goods Most of the 50 specialty retailers who spoke with TDmonthly Magazine revealed that licensed products — more common in the mass market — make up at least 1 percent of their merchandise.....
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Homeschool Panel Gives 3-D Puzzle Mixed Reviews TDmonthly’s Homeschool Roundtable families recently faced the challenge of Voxal, a three-dimensional puzzle that is easier to describe than assemble. Did the families conquer it? Read on.....
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Get an Edge on Santa by Spying These Toys Santa's hard at work on his list ... have you started yours? Find out what toys kids want in their stockings by taking a peek at TDmonthly's Holiday Preview articles...
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Picking Puzzles Apart Take a look at these new puzzles to see which pieces fit best with your customers...
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TDmonthly’s Top-10 Most-Wanted Puzzles Specialty retailers shared with TDmonthly magazine that the most popular selling puzzles were wooden puzzles, floor puzzles and wooden floor puzzles. Melissa & Doug and Ravensburger managed to produce all three...
4/1/2008
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ZEN™ Challenges Players’ Concentration Jerrett Metzger, founder of Silly Willy Toys, hopes ZEN, his fortuitous creation, becomes one of those celebrated stories about accidental inventions that made millions...
2/1/2008
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Paradoxy Products' Simple Puzzles Conceal Challenges Paradoxy Products Founder Daniel Young always harbored a passion for designing and inventing, but as an international trade lawyer for more than 30 years, was far removed from the toy business...
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Why b. dazzle, inc. Chose North America Since the founding of b. dazzle, inc. in 1993, Marshall and Kathie Gavin have built their company into one defined by hard work, excellent customer service and uncompromising quality...
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Figure It Out Kids been forgetting things lately?...
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