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September 2007 | Vol. VI - No. 9

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2007's Innovations

The Year Brought New Twists to Toys

By: Alison Marek & Julie L. Jones
Jul 13, 2007

Water construction toys, charitable dolls, flying disks that talk and MP3s for infants were some of the innovative ideas that took off in 2007. Revisit the year and find out how toys were changed for good by these distinctive products in TDmonthly Magazine’s “Innovations of 2007,” coming in December.

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