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Hot Toys for Christmas

Your Holiday Shopping Stops Here

By: Alison Marek
Nov 30, 2006

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The Holiday Season is upon us. If you've shopped 'til you dropped at your local specialty toy stores and still haven't found the perfect gift for the perfect people on your list, you've come to the right place.

TDmonthly’s Holiday Gift Guide has amazing gift ideas, and you can buy many of them with just a few clicks of the mouse. You'll be able to sit your toddler down at a Pansy table-and-chair set from Teacup Tables LLC (Gift Guide), let your dad fly high with a radio-controlled helicopter from Hobby Zone (Gift Guide), and find out if your friends survive melting icebergs by playing Antarctica Global WARming from Savita Games (Gift Guide).

So whether it's Bahcheck, a fast-playing new version of backgammon from the Bahamas by B.I.P. Limited (Gift Guide), a Pushing Car from Haba (Gift Guide) or puppet books by Lisa LeLeu (Gift Guide), you'll be sure to find something unique and unexpected by clicking here.

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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