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Ready to Take Off at ToyFair
By Karen Mendez Smith
February 1, 2003
Ladies and gentlemen start your engines! Here's a fast-paced view
of ToyFair wonders all set to make records in 2003.
Corgi
Classics' 1:36 scale Jaguar XKR |
Speed
Demons
Gear heads, aspiring spies and 007 fans will be intrigued with Corgi
Classics' 1:36 scale Jaguar XKR, with its very own Gatling
gun, just like the one in Die Another Day. *The Halle Berry
airbag is not included.
MiniRacers |
Crash
Course
Racing enthusiasts will also get a boost from LottoFun
Company. Its new fun-on-the-run MiniRacers are a prime example
of the ever-growing popularity of hand-sized radio-controlled vehicles.
Ford
Cub Cruiser Wagon |
Make
Tracks
It is said that there is nothing better than a classic. Especially
the classic, all-steel Cub Cruiser Wagon, by Cub
Cruiser Company, with tear-drop fenders, for ages 18 months
and up. Also, check out the sleek new, 100th Anniversary edition
of the Ford Cub Cruiser in black or blue/black. With all
this "flava," all the two-year-olds on the block will be trying
to roll in one of these by x-mas time!
Silver
Pursuit Pedal Plane |
Pedal
to the Metal
For planes, muscle cars, jalopies or fire engines that really accelerate
sales, C
& N Reproductions, Inc.'s Silver Pursuit Pedal Plane is
just the ticket. With its spring-loaded propeller and sexy, shiny
wings, I want one and I'm a grown girl!
Titanic
Pop-Pop Boat |
Make
Waves
Always popular with the maritime crowd is the 9" classic German-designed
Pop-Pop Racing Boat by, you guessed it, Pop-Pop
Boats! Using a pellet-fuel propelled simple coil engine,
this distinctive line of tin tugs, ocean-liners and speedboats are,
in a word, "Titanic" fun.
PowerRisers
by Extreme Sports |
Let's
Flip the Switch…
Want to stay above the line (and crowd)? The absolutely amazing
PowerRisers by Extreme
Sports is a ski-like sports toy with action that allows
the wearer to jump -- get this -- up to 3 1/2 feet (for kids) and
9 feet (for the adult version) into the air and take up to 9-foot-
long strides. This gets our vote as one of the most inventive human
propulsion toys yet.
*(Sorry guys, there is no Halle Berry airbag. We were only kidding.)
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