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TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS
Notable and New Toys by Category
Now that all the toys you saw at Toy Fair are jumbled together into one big toy blur, sort them out by category...READ MORE
Pencils and cameras ready, TDmonthly Magazine trolled the aisles of Toy Fair for special toys for specialty shops. Lucky for us, other toys came straight to our office, too....
TDmonthly Magazine spoke with specialty retailers during and after Toy Fair TDmonthly Magazine spoke with specialty retailers during and after Toy Fair to find out which toys they liked the most....
TDMONTHLY TOY FAIR 2007 WRAP-UP
Watch Toy Fair VIDEOS Here!
We've now uploaded all of the 150-plus product demonstrations TDmonthly Magazine shot at Toy Fair 2007....READ MORE
Don't have time to watch dozens of videos? Then click on the category you most need to fill...
Toy Fair's over ... so now what?...
WOODEN TOYS
A Fresh Cut of the Tree
Wooden toys are traditionally known — and trusted — for their quality...READ MORE
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...
GAMES
New Games Have Global Effects
An alternate reality game has attracted tens of thousands of players worldwide in the search for a hidden cube ... and a $200,000 reward...READ MORE
Games designed for families and other groups are the most popular...
The modern idea of a game can include anything from traditional board games to cutting-edge video games to interactive DVD games...
TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS
TDmonthly's Book Expert
This month, Dorothea DePrisco Wang learned something new every day, spent some time with dark dinos, found secretive animals and more....READ MORE
TDmonthly Magazine’s Multimedia Expert has devoted her career to watching and listening to imaginative creations in a variety of media...
Christina Liu uses toys to help kids with or at risk for developmental delay reach their full potential. This month, her kids make up new animals, break secret codes, learn story structure and more....
"We're a bunch of videots," I explain calmly to the film students sitting in my office...
This month, TDmonthly Magazine's Psychologist Mom takes her kids to the races, prepares them for retirement and more...
TDMONTHLY TOY ROUNDTABLES
Homeschoolers: Think to Win
Think, think, think! Games that entertain while exercising the brain were the focus of this month's Homeschooling Roundtable....READ MORE
From the heart of Georgia, grandmas, moms, daughters, collectors and a retailer turned their critical eyes to soft, poseable 9” fashion dolls known as the Only Hearts Club...
The wooden Curvino Push Toy by Selecta became a favorite with moms and babes alike because of its craftsmanship and flexibility...
While investigating blocks, games and frames for little kids, TDmonthly’s Preschool/Early School Roundtable participants favored products...
TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK
Retailer Spotlight: Kaleidoscope Toys
Michelle Deutschmann's jump into the toy industry was the result of meeting a combination of needs...READ MORE
Michelle Deutschmann had to overcome well-meaning naysayers when she first contemplated opening a toy store...
In a Toy Fair Session sponsored by the Toy Industry Association, Nick Morolda ... offered nine tips on how to build and support a successful toy store...
Fifteen minutes before the show floor opens at the American International Toy Fair, Manager Matt Hannifin of Science Toy Magic in Santa Fe, N.M., waits in the Javits Center, adequately hydrated and armed with a black suitcase on wheels, a laminated, Sharpie-marked map of the exhibition halls secured to the handle...
TDMONTHLY COOL COMPANY
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....READ MORE
A love of nature and children gave Wild Republic its beginning after founder G.B. Pillai noticed that gift stores at zoos, aquariums and museums could do better at offering merchandise that reflected the visitor experience...
TDMONTHLY BRASS RING
Secrist Shares Secrets, Gains Sales
Reborning — disassembling a doll and rebuilding it into a lifelike baby — has turned the business model upside down...READ MORE
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ
How HABA Stays Fresh
Lea Culliton started in retail and worked her way up to become the vice president of sales and marketing at HABA USA...READ MORE
What looks like a piece of scrap metal but sails through the air like a deranged Frisbee? It's called Toobee, The Amazing Flying Can...
The introduction of first-generation motion-sensing toys more than 10 years ago created market demand for more intelligent, less expensive and easier-to-operate animated products...
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES
Toy Sleuth: It's Granny by a Nose
Sometimes what's bubbling under the surface can be revolutionary. Sometimes it can be evolutionary. And sometimes, it's just plain weird and wonderful....READ MORE
Hollywood’s not dying, despite the rumors, and 2007 is going to be a biggie at the box office ... if competing release dates don't short-circuit the whole thing...
For the past two years, a committee of concerned members of the toy and game industry has been studying and discussing a proposed Code of Ethics. The Proposed document has been accepted for review by the Toy Industry Association....
New York is out and Texas is in. After months of controversy, the Toy Industry Association announced after a meeting of its Executive Committee on Tuesday that this year’s Fall Toy Show will be in Dallas, October 8 to 11....
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS
TDmonthly's Top-10 Specialty Toy Fair Toys
Specialty toy retailers had hundreds of booths to browse at this year’s American International Toy Fair in New York....READ MORE
TDmonthly was at Toy Fair, too, and here are some of the toys we think kids of all ages, backgrounds and sensibilities would have a hard time resisting:...
TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES
Videos From WTHRA Bring New Toys to You
Winter is almost over and Spring toys are ready to bloom....READ MORE
Ernie Wong, president of Playmaker Toys, believes that toys should speak for themselves. So his scream....