August 2014 New Specialty Toys — General Games

Now, every girl can be a princess in the story of her own making! Create your own happily ever after with Tell Tale, a storytelling game with 100 detailed illustrations that will spark your imagination. Lay out a storyboard, build on another player’s tale, or improvise with random cards. Take turns spinning unique tales together based on the colorful image prompts. Play your choice of four game variations or come up with your own. From the kiss that awakened Sleeping Beauty to a magic carpet ride, get swept away in the classics and add unexpected twists!
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Winner of two Academy Awards®, Disney Frozen has captivated imaginations worldwide. Journey with Elsa and Anna, along with an enchanting cast, as they match images and letters. Familiar characters and objects invite kids to learn, while devoted fans will be swept into their wintry world. Between any two cards there is always one, and only one, match. Spot it first and you’ll never want to Let It Go!
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— In a November 2014 survey, two retailers told TDmonthly that Frozen licensed toys are best-sellers in their stores.

The current Perplexus games are sphere-shaped, but Warp is, well, a warped sphere. "If one had to name it, it would be called a spherical octahedron, but around here we just call it weird, cool, different, warpy, or the hyper egg. The new shape is also a bit easier to hold, doesn't roll off a table, and maximizes player's visibility all in a fun new size," says Matt Nelson of Perplexus, LLC. Perplexus Warp features nine internal cups that act as "baskets" when you maneuver the marble to leap into them, and a new internal pivot that gives the illusion of a magnet sticking to the ball, defying gravity, as it travels across a bridge with no rails. Warp has six flagged check points, 50 challenging events, and is deemed a difficulty level of six.
Awards: 2014 TDmonthly Magazine Top Toy Award

The Doc is in, and it’s time to learn! This versatile matching game is a fun and rewarding way for preschoolers to learn numbers and shapes, the building blocks of math. With three ways to play, kids visually and verbally identify numbers, basic shapes, and images inspired by Doc and her stuffed-animal friends. Between two cards, there is always one match. Spot it and you win!
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In the darkest depths of the most sinister forests, even Giants and Cygors can fall prey to the colossal Arachnarok Spider. Towering over houses and settlements alike, this gargantuan creature can be goaded into battle by Forest Goblins who worship it as a living god. Bedecked with shanty towers, altars to the Spider-god or even crude catapults, the Arachnarok Spider will terrorise the Warhammer world. This 95-piece, all-plastic kit comes complete with all the options available to make your Arachnarok Spider truly unique, including a Flinger and a Catchweb Spidershrine. There are also eight Forest Goblin crew for the howdah, many tiny spiders to adorn the base and a Goblin Great Shaman if you choose to use the Arachnarok Spider as a monstrous mount.

The classic electronic game of memory is back in a take anywhere carabiner format. Ever-increasing sequences of lights and sounds command your response. Keep the pattern and you just might beat Simon™! HASBRO and its logo and SIMON are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. 2009 Hasbro.  All Rights Reserved. Requires 3 AG-13 button cell batteries, included. Measures 7.62” x 6.12” x 1.25” in pkg.  Ages 7 & up.
— Dean Smith, owner of JaZams in Princeton, N.J. told TDmonthly in a July 2014 survey that the Simon Electronic Carabiner was one of their store's top-2 best-selling electronic / battery operated toys.

Winner of a 2014 TDmonthly Top Toy Award, SET DICE is three games in one: SET CUBED, SCRAMBLE SET & CROSSWORD SET. SET CUBED is a strategy game with over 10 Best Game Awards! SCRAMBLE SET is fast-paced family fun, just like your favorite card game. CROSSWORD SET: create SETs up, down and across connecting all of your dice before your opponent.
 
Whichever way you decide to play, you will have fun with these custom over-sized dice. The more SETs you make, the higher your score. Roll, Connect, WIN!
 
Great for travel, free demo available with purchase of 11 games. 1 to 6 players. Ages 8 to adult.
Awards: 2014 TDmonthly Magazine Top Toy Award

Order up! It’s a busy day at the diner, so don’t dilly-dally. Help your customers get just what they ordered by racing the other servers to the grill, relay style, and piling up pancakes in precisely the right order in this stack ‘em high, serve ‘em up, relay race game!

The Hare and the Tortoise is a card-driven betting game about animal racing loosely based on one of Aesop's Fables.

The party game where everyone is an animal...or at least sounds like one! In Quack-a-doodle-Moo each player gets a Barn Card with a random farm animal and the fun begins. As cards are quickly flipped over toungue-tied players stumble and stutter to blurt out the animal sounds of other players.

Party potion is the easiest way to get started with Snake Oil. The same crazy fun of the original Snake Oil Game with all new content formulated for children as young as eight years old while still great for the entire family. This edition can be played as a stand-alone game or mixed in with another Snake Oil edition for millions of hilarious new combinations!

An excellent addition to the My First Play World series from HABA, the Who Lives Where? Matching Game will be both fun and educational for your little one! The animals are searching for their houses. Who will show them where they live? The charmingly detailed illustrations will help make the matching game easier. Also excellent in free play, the houses can be arranged to form a zoo. Stack the houses to put together an additional fun illustration or use the dots on the sides to introduce counting! The contents include 1 elephant (3" tall), 1 giraffe, 1 zebra, 1 lion, 1 hippo, 1 monkey, 6 animal houses (largest house is 4.75" x 5.00" x 3.00"). Perfect for children ages 18 months and up.

Stacking up the fun with the Wigglefants Stacking Game! Perfect for fostering fine motor skills and problem solving skills, stacking games are both educational and fun. The adorable, brightly colored elephants can be flipped upside-down or placed right-side-up to create silly structures. The set also includes 5 double-sided, super sturdy templates that show patterns of varying degrees of difficulty for your child to recreate. Build from the templates or create brand new structures during free play. The set includes 10 German-made beech wood wigglefants (2.70" x 2.20" x 0.70") and 5 sturdy cardboard templates. Perfect for ages 2 and up.

Everyone’s favorite card game has gone sub-zero! Spot it! Freeze pits players against an electric timer and heats up the match fueled frenzy with three new games. Players race against the clock as they search for matches between temperature charged symbols, all while looking for their chance to freeze their opponents. Depending on the game, the clock can grant an advantage or cause a hair-pulling drawback. Beat the freeze to win! The handy timer opens up to store the playing cards.

Rivaling sheep herds go to head to fluffy head in this quick moving strategy game. The goal is to have your sheep occupy the most pastures. On each turn, players split their stack of sheep and move a portion as far is it can go in a straight line to a new pasture. The winner will be watchful of sneaky sheep and successful at fencing out the foe. A different playing board is assembled before every game, so Battle Sheep is full of new challenges every time you play!

This unique drawing game takes kids on a deep sea adventure to fulfill underwater quests with the power of their pens. Each quest card has a detailed illustration and drawing instructions. On their separate transparent sheets, players complete the drawing and must trust their eyes in order to meet targets and avoid obstacles. The sheets are then placed over the card to score their sketch’s success. With 36 quests and two levels, the bait of the challenge hooks kids for hours of fun!