Renaissance Woman Karen Hewitt has two passions: children and art.
Most of her education and
career were spent immersed in one or the other, yet
today, Hewitt gets the best of both worlds – as a toy
designer...
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Meltdown
Comics,
just another comic book store you say?Hold onto your little plastic wrappers, folks,
this hot LA destination is a lot more than that.They’re our Real Retailer of the month, and
here’s why...
Features
What’ll
Be Hot for the Holidays? Nothing
beats a healthy dose of Demand to drive retailer traffic
and make holiday receipts rosey.But how does that demand take the shape of a Tickle Me Elmo®,
or a Cabbage Patch Kid® each year?What are the forces that focus public sentiment
on that ONE product everyone just has to have, and more
importantly, what will it be this year? Full
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Sidebar: Retailers
Vote on the "Gotta Have"
Cars,
R/C and Otherwise A
hurricane is brewing outside my window.The wind is howling, the house is creaking, and I
am on the kitchen floor playing crash derby with my
matchbox cars, oblivious.Actually, this all happened quite some time ago.But in the past couple of days, in preparing for
this article, I’ve tried to rekindle that spirit… Full
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The
New, the Hot and the Unusual: NOVELTIES
Clearly
Unique Soaps
Soap Vision, a Santa Barbara-based company,
started out as a kitchen-table operation with the novel idea
of “putting things inside translucent soap.”
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For
Those Who Enjoy Things That Ooze.
We don’t know which is cooler: The fact that
this material is solid yet oozes, OR, the fact that it was
designed by a stay-at-home mother in Florida! Full
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Animal,
Mineral…Replica Geoworld is an Italian company best known
for creating painstaking fossil replicas, and offering
minerals, fossils and related printed materials for retail
sale. Full Text
