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Visit the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association’s annual Marketplace & Academy after the show! Just check out the August issue of TDmonthly Magazine for our video coverage of the exhibition, and find out what manufacturers are saying about some of their newest products.

We’ll start uploading the videos in July, so if you haven’t yet registered for our early edition eSubscribe (you get your TDmonthly issue three weeks before anyone else!), do it today so you can see the ASTRA toys first.

Writer'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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