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Article Archive: Wooden Toys
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
Go back to basics with these high-quality wooden toys, sure to be hits with kids and the grown-ups who actually buy them...
3/1/2016
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
With additional reporting by Chris Lundy and Brenda RuggieroThis month, we're going back to basics! TDmonthly Magazine interviewed specialty retailers to find out which wooden toys are hot. From classic trains to modern blocks, check out their Top-10 best-selling wooden toys below.*No manufacturer paid to be included in this list...
3/1/2015
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
In a February 2014 survey about wooden toys, retailers told TDmonthly Magazine that the best-selling wooden toys in their stores tend to be classics, like wooden train sets, puzzles, and marble runs...
3/1/2014
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
When TDmonthly Magazine interviewed retailers in February of 2013, we learned that the Pound and Tap Bench from Hape is still flying off of specialty store shelves. Other favorite wooden toys included simple classics, like puzzles and trains...
3/1/2013
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 Q&A With Will Haughey, Co-Founder of Tegu
Will Haughey and his brother Chris grew up volunteering for several international charities, so when they decided to go into business together in Honduras, they knew that they wanted their company to help drive the local economy and make life better for the people living in the community...
1/1/2013
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 Eco-Friendly Toys
Take a closer look at these recently added specialty and mass-market eco-friendly toys...
7/1/2012
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 TDmonthly Top Toy Award Winners July 2012
TDmonthly Magazine is excited to announce our TDmonthly Top Toy Award winners for July 2012. We've selected these toys to feature to our 14,600 retailer subscribers for a number of reasons, including their top quality, high play value, and/or status as a proven best seller...
7/1/2012
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 Magicforest Balanced Learning With Play
Magicforest Ltd. donated a combined total of 50 Sevi Instrument Sets and Balance Games through TDmonthly’s "2012: A Year of Charity." The company is well known by specialty toy retailers for importing unusual and high-quality toys and games from Europe...
6/1/2012
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 Hape Cooked up a Storm
Founded in 1995 by Peter Handstein, Hape has always had a mission to create beautiful and engaging toys with minimal impact on the environment and with maximum benefit to its workers. Peter is also committed to ensuring that everyone who works for him has benefits and becomes a member of their extended family...
6/1/2012
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
Wooden toys are a staple of specialty toy stores, so TDmonthly Magazine interviewed retailers to find out which ones were selling the best...
3/1/2012
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 Wooden Toys
Check out these recently added specialty and mass-market wooden toys...
3/1/2012
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 Wooden Toys
See these recently added specialty and mass-market wooden toys...
11/1/2011
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 Classic Company Navigates High-Tech Market
In a recent interview, the president of HABA USA stressed the importance of brand-management and tech-savvy business moves in today's ever fluctuating market...
6/1/2011
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
In early 2011, TDmonthly Magazine's regional correspondents spoke with 12 specialty toy retailers from around the country about their best-selling wooden products...
3/1/2011
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 My Best Sellers: Key West Toy Factory
At Key West Toy Factory in Key West, Fla., shoppers are seeking fun vacation toys that are easy to take on a cruise ship and then on a plane back home...
6/1/2010
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 Take 2: Wooden and Construction Toys
Construction toys are building up and up with tower-friendly pieces from Hape International and Fat Brain Toy Co., and Holztiger's wooden semi trucks have trade-out parts...
6/1/2010
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 April Staff Picks
This month in TDmonthly Magazine's Staff Picks, brinca dada gives the dollhouse family modern appeal, used crayons find a second life, and classic wooden blocks adopt a unique attraction in a line called Tegu...
4/1/2010
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 In This Issue
The toy industry may not break any big records for the decade in 2010, but things are definitely looking up this year...
4/1/2010
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 Video: ASTRA Talks Holiday Sales & Social Media
TDmonthly Magazine's Julie Jones caught up with Kathleen McHugh, president of the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association, at Toy Fair 2010. ASTRA is encouraged by 2009 holiday sales in the specialty market...
4/1/2010
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
Melissa & Doug. We could almost stop there, based on responses from 38 specialty toy stores across the United States, but there are other top-selling wooden toys, too...
3/1/2010
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 ASTRA’s Top-30 Toys from Toy Fair 2010
During the American Specialty Toy Retailers Association’s Share the Fair event at Toy Fair 2010, more than 80 representatives from specialty toy stores gathered to discuss the toys and games they’d been most impressed with...
3/1/2010
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 The Acorn Store's PLAN Showroom
Behind the Acorn Store is another store, and another one, too ... three separate showrooms help give this little toy store a big presence in kids' imaginations...
1/1/2010
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 TDmonthly's September Staff Picks
Little kids can don a high-quality cape to become a big hero, toss a golden coin to solve sibling conflict, or paint their nails with polish that's as "natural as mud."...
9/1/2009
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 My Best Sellers: At Once All Agog
Owner Candace Gooch of At Once All Agog in Limerick, Maine, encourages her customers to play with the toys in her store and experience their craftsmanship. Here are the items she told TDmonthly Magazine shoppers want most...
7/1/2009
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 In This Issue
The trade show circuit continued into March, and TDmonthly Magazine hit the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., to capture dozens of new toys on video at the Western States Toy & Hobby Show...
4/1/2009
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 Balance Bikes: A Comparison of Styles and Sales
When it comes to parents picking bikes for their kids and manufacturers specifying which design is best, there are some strong opinions out there. And the latest bike innovation to make its way to the U.S. — the balance bike — is no exception...
4/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Top-10 Most-Wanted Wooden Toys
Classic and durable wooden toys have been a mainstay for generations, and in today’s market the focus is shifting to sustainable, environmentally friendly, and safe more than ever before, TDmonthly Magazine learned during a survey of 56 specialty retailers...
3/1/2009
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 Ultimate Spinner Spins Hours of Fun, Panel Says
After TDmonthly Magazine's Grade School Roundtable spun fun for all ages with the Ultimate Spinner from Robbins Toy, reviewers reported that the contents met the promises on the box, offering a variety of games appealing to all ages...
3/1/2009
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 Munipals Puts Fay Graphic on Track
Incentive to get the wheels in motion for a line of wooden toy trains modeled after the New York subway came from a son’s question at the dinner table...
12/1/2008
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 In This Issue
Ready to watch? Check out TDmonthly’s toy video demos, with highlights on one of our featured categories...
7/1/2008
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 Call in the Elves for These Holiday Toys
There’s always something new in the world of toys, and that playset you didn’t see just might end up a top seller this holiday season. So while you’re sizzling with summer sales, beat the fall rush, too...
7/1/2008
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 In This Issue
Know what? TDmonthly Magazine wants you to have a good year!...
6/1/2008
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 Wooden Toys Take Pomona
Just a few weeks after Toy Fair, West Coast shoppers hit up the Western States Toy & Hobby Show in Pomona, Calif., where natural wooden offerings reflected the marketplace’s penchant for all things safe and eco-friendly.....
4/1/2008
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 Carving Out Simple Play
Many of the games that were popular around this time last year are still ringing up the most sales in specialty stores, 63 retailers reported to TDmonthly Magazine...
3/1/2008
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 Toddler Roundtable: Nuchi Train Rolls Out Fun
The Little Little Little Toy Company’s Nuchi™ 15-Piece Circle Train Set delighted TDmonthly Magazine’s Toddler Roundtable with a simple layout, interlocking tracks and magnets that link the colorful cars and accessories...
2/1/2008
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 Wooden Toys Catch Fire
If you haven’t stocked up on wooden toys, you may be missing out! Spooked by the recalls from China, holiday buyers are raiding specialty stores for wooden toys, particular those made stateside...
12/1/2007
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 Is "Made In China" the Kiss of Death?
Mattel’s recall of more than 10 million toys this month has made parents and retailers rethink buying and stocking decisions, sources told TDmonthly Magazine...
8/1/2007
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 Made in the USA Toys
American toy companies can save 50 percent or more on manufacturing costs by taking production outside U.S. borders. And yet, some refuse to set sail...
7/1/2007
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 Plastic Is Passe
Rising petroleum prices and sustainable forests give wooden toys more appeal than ever...
6/1/2007
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 Kapla: A Childhood Dream Fulfilled
In the 1980s, 25-year-old art historian Tom van der Bruggen left his home country of Holland and the antique shop he owned, and relocated to southern France to pursue his childhood dream of building a castle...
3/1/2007
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 Traditional Blocks and Trains Keep Selling
Fifty-one retailers nationwide said specialty toy stores are keeping up with the grand tradition of wooden toys, selling blocks, trains, puzzles and games from companies HABA, Learning Curve and others...
3/1/2007
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 Liberty Puzzles Fought for Freedom
Christopher Wirth had what many would consider a great job making good money as a corporate attorney for a financial firm. But after eight years .....
10/1/2006
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 Wooden Toys Need to Stay Fresh
Wooden toy makers know they can’t just reproduce the same products year in and year out and still keep customers coming back for more...
6/1/2006
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 Internet Helps Sell Wooden Baby Toys
"It appears as if classic wooden toys are making a true comeback," Deborah Gallagher, president of Smart Start Baby, told TDmonthly Magazine...
3/1/2006
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 Pedal to the Mettle: The Unbelievable True Story of Automoblox
Many of us can recall the pride we felt the first time we spotted a product that we had a hand in designing sitting on a store shelf. And this pride turns to absolute nirvana when that product is your product — something that you’ve brought to market completely born of your vision and manufactured by your own company...
12/1/2005
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 Growing HABA Feels No Pain
The flagship Fifth Avenue FAO Schwarz store includes a room devoted to HABA products. HABA, the maker of high-end European maple and beech wood toys, didn’t subsidize this prime piece of toy real estate; the placement was driven by customer demand...
8/1/2005
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 Wooden Toys in the Modern Age
While they may look like the same wooden blocks or trucks of 50 years ago, some of today’s wooden toys are going high tech. Several companies are using technology to improve safety measures or to create more unusual products...
8/1/2005
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 Wooden Toy Roundtable
The wooden toys category is unusual in that it encompasses products made of a similar material, rather than a similar mode of play. For that reason, this month’s selection of roundtable participants bring products to retailers that range from play sets to games to pianos...
8/1/2005
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 Wooden Toys Are Sturdy Sellers
Who would have thought that being environmentally conscious and marketing products as quality buys that stand the test of time would generate sales in this high-tech era?...
8/1/2005
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Guidecraft: Wooden Art and Educational Design
When Jason Fein´s father started Guidecraft in 1964, the small woodworking company offered ten products designed for schools. Forty years later, the line has grown to over 160 toys and furnishings that appeal both to school supply and consumer markets...
10/1/2004
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Wooden Toys
Kapla “Through building, one builds character” states Tom van der Bruggen, inventor of Kapla. A previous winner of the Parent’s Choice Award and Dr. Toy’s Top 10 Most Creative Toys, Kapla produces wooden building planks that stimulate the imagination and artistic side of everyone. Made of high-quality marine pine,...
10/1/2004
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Automoblox: Modern Wood Design
When it comes to being a car enthusiast, Patrick Calello, founder of Automoblox has used his passion for cars to develop a new twist on toys made of wood...
8/1/2004
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