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TDMONTHLY MUST READS
Even before you hit the show, you’ll need to know what new companies are out there and the latest offerings from vendors you trust. TDmonthly Magazine looked through this month’s nearly 500 uploaded products...
CNNMoney featured the following products/lines as breakout hits at Toy Fair 2008: Karito Kids by KidsGive, which broke its single-day sales record at this year's show; Pressman Toy, for its licensed offerings The Office Trivia Game, ESPN Jeopardy and Disney Wheel of Fortune...
TDMONTHLY TOY FAIR COVERAGE
In the Spotlight: Toy Fair 2008
Check out TDmonthly Magazine’s extensive coverage of the toy show that, once again this year, took New York by storm...READ MORE
This year's Toy Fair teemed with robots and other high-tech gadgetry that yanked the World of Tomorrow into today's playthings. Watch videos to see more...
TDmonthly Magazine found the best new toys at Toy Fair, spotted trends and found out what specialty retailers thought about the show...
TDmonthly Magazine offered free toy demonstration videos to the first 50 Toy Fair exhibitors who responded to our email...
With so many new products being introduced in preparation for Toy Fair, it’s easy to get buried underneath them all....
Two-thirds of the 24 specialty retailers surveyed by TDmonthly Magazine this month said they’ll be attending the American International Toy Fair in New York City next week......
TDMONTHLY TOY FAIR DOCUMENTARY
TOY FRENZY! — We’ve Found Our Subjects!
Every year, toy manufacturers and retailers clamor to get inside the Javits Center in New York City, host to the annual American International Toy Fair....READ MORE
TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS
Our Favorite Videos
We're about to bring back a whole documentary from Toy Fair '08, so we thought it was time to look back through the history of TDmonthly's Toy Videos...READ MORE
TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK
My Best Sellers: Clever Kids Toy Shop
Owner Michelle Beyer of Clever Kids Toy Shop in Rochester, Minn., is picky when it comes to choosing products, and her customers seem to appreciate the extra attention she gives to a small space....READ MORE
A good number of businesses are started by everyday people who see a need and decide to fill it. Such was the case for Michelle Beyer, owner of Clever Kids Toy Shop in Rochester, Minn....
Two related challenges for successful toy-store owners are finding sufficient storage space when the trucks roll up to their doors and deciding what to do with merchandise that won’t budge from the shelves....
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS
TDmonthly's Top-10 Most-Wanted Dolls
Thirty-seven of 62 toy-store owners raved that Corolle babies are their best-selling dolls, with sales averaging from two to 50 per month year-round and significantly more at Christmas....READ MORE
TDmonthly spoke with 62 retailers about their success with arts and crafts products. While the amount of each particular product sold varied, one thing was consistent:...
The year 2007 demonstrated the diversity in kids’ tastes — they wanted everything from plush to dolls to play vehicles to educational games....
TDMONTHLY TRENDS
Boys Can be Crafty, Too
“Boys just aren’t that hot into arts and crafts right now,” said Teneen Dobbs, owner of Kit & Kaboodle in St. Carmel, Ind., during a recent TDmonthly Magazine survey of 66 specialty retailers....READ MORE
TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS
TDmonthly's Psychologist Mom
TDmonthly Magazine’s Psychologist Mom recently became a baby frog, learned the origins of common expressions, threw an “X” through the park and more...READ MORE
TDmonthly Magazine’s Homeschool Roundtable fell in love with the soft plush Kookeys by 10VOX Entertainment, although they had mixed reviews of the virtual world “Kooland,” which is still being worked on by its creators...
If you want to know which books to sell in your toy store, find out what the kids have to say....
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....
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ
NITON Has the Edge
After the recall of millions of lead-contaminated toys last summer and fall — some of which had been purchased as far back as 2003 — parents are understandably concerned about toy safety....READ MORE
Jerrett Metzger, founder of Silly Willy Toys, hopes ZEN, his fortuitous creation, becomes one of those celebrated stories about accidental inventions that made millions....
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES
Hollywood ToyBoy: Do Oscars Predict Toy Sales?
“Barricade the doors! Board up the windows! It’s the end of the world as we know it!” Yup, it’s the time of year we vote for those little golden statues that mean so much to our egos and so little to the world in general....READ MORE
Smart Mom LLC and Alpha Source International each found gaggles of celebrities to go ga-ga over their offerings...
Last year marked, for the first time in years, a real change in the fashion doll category — the ascent of Hannah Montana....
TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS
Notable and New Toys by Category
Stock up those bare shelves with the hundreds of new toys TDmonthly uploaded since last month...READ MORE
When TDmonthly Magazine calls toy-store owners about hot sellers, dolls aren’t usually at the top of their lists....
TDMONTHLY MANUFACTURER'S CORNER
Exhibitor Tips: How to Connect at Trade Shows
Marketing before and after a trade show is just as crucial as the exhibition itself when it comes to attracting the right booth traffic and increasing sales, Charles W. Allen, chairman and CEO of The C.W. Allen Group and co-founder of the Trade Show News Network, told TDmonthly Magazine....READ MORE
If you’re attending Toy Fair for the first time, you may have questions about exhibitor dos and don’ts....
TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES
Top-10 Toy Fair Picks
Sorting through the offerings of the more than 1,300 exhibitors at Toy Fair may seem a daunting task — whether you’re at the show or not!...READ MORE
Not only will TDmonthly Magazine be shooting its signature demo videos of new products at Toy Fair this year; we’ll also be shooting our first-ever documentary, “TOY FRENZY! Only the Fun Survive.”...
A few years ago, grandparents Bob and Mary Sisson took the plunge to open a specialty toy store in their long-time community of Vancouver, Wash....
