March Staff Picks

A wealth of great products are headed your way after Toy Fair 2015

By TDmonthly Staff
March 2015

Toy Fair has come and gone, and we can confirm that there are a ton of great new toys headed your way in 2015. Below are some of our favorites - fun toys, often with a STEM-focused bent, that we think will do well in specialty. Take a look below and see if any would be a good fit for your store.

Thomas & Friends™ Track PlayTape® by BACHMANN TRAINS

PlayTape® in 50' and 25' rolls can be torn to any length to create track layouts matching a child's imagination. See why the award-winning Track PlayTape® provides hours of railroading Fun that Sticks™!

2/16/2015

Sands Alive GLOW by PLAY VISIONS INC.

Plastic components will react in the dark with the UV LED Glasses and lights up beyond your belief! Comes with 4 pounds GLOW Sand, large play tray, UV LED Glasses, UV Pen Light, Brick and Pebble Rollers, 4 Stencils in assorted themes, 2 Volcano Molds, 6 PVC Neon Bugs, 6 PVC Dino Skeleton, 3 assorted Jungle Animal molds, and a light up flashing red LED module to make your volcano come to life! ITEM PROHIBITED ON AMAZON.

2/17/2015

Hair Tats by FASHION ANGELS

Tweens will go wild over hair tats. Using the included stencil and hair chalk powder, kids can "tattoo" designs like butterflies, hearts and stars right on their heads.

2/16/2015

Play and Trace Boogie Board by IMPROV ELECTRONICS

This brand new offering from Boogie Board re-envisions the board as a transparent screen that can be used for tracing anything. Practice letters, numbers, and shapes, then press a button to clear the design.

2/14/2015

Mobile Device Microscope by GEOCENTRAL

With the Mobile Device Microscope, kids can turn their SmartPhone or Tablet into a MICROSCOPE! Kids can examine bugs and minerals up close and personal. Turn your device to camera mode, and attach the mini-microscope to the camera's eye - suddenly, you have a microscope!

2/15/2015

Sound by SCIENCE WIZ / NORMAN & GLOBUS INC.

This great new science kit from Science Wiz lets kids accomplish college-level experiments with sound by building an Edison-Style phonograph and downloading free apps from the web. There are twenty different activities that kids can do with this kit.

2/15/2015

Sweet Ink Tattoo Kit by SUGAR LULU

The Sweet Ink Tattoo Kit comes in a beautiful, decorative tin. Each kit includes one pack of transfer tattoos, 27 foil bracelets, 4 stencils, 2 body markers, 1 glue, a brush for glitter tattoos, and two colors of glitter.

2/14/2015

Snap Circuits Arcade by ELENCO

With this kit, kids can create an arcade out of electrical circuits - and then have fun playing with their creation! It's like two toys in one. Combining lights, sound, and motion, this is the most elaborate Snap Circuits kits yet!

2/14/2015

SPECTRACUBE™ Game by FUNNYBONE TOYS LLC

SPECTACULAR, QUICK, KALEIDOSCOPIC ROLLING CUBE GAMES
30 COLOR CUBES – 6 COLORFUL GAMES!
Imagine 30 of the most beautiful, multi-colored cubes you’ve ever seen. Fun to hold, fun to ROLL, and Spectracube includes rules for SIX different games, from fast to strategic, to satisfy all fans of rolling dice game action!

2/4/2015 (MSRP: $19.99; Age: 6 and Up)

Geomate.jr by BRAND 44

Geomate.jr by BRAND 44 Geocaching is a GPS based treasure hunt. Containers of various sizes are hidden and the co-ordinates are recorded and logged on www.geocaching.com. These co-ordinates are loaded into handheld GPS devices. Then the GPS device directs you close to the location hidden geocache, then you must look for the hidden geocache. The Geomate.jr comes preloaded with 250,000 geocaches covering all 50 states (or your country.) Just switch on the Geomate.jr, then follow the distance and arrow to the closest Geocache. See, we told you it was easy! The Geomate.jr will display the 20 closest geocaches to your location. The Geomate.jr also gives you information about the geocache such as cache ID, difficulty, terrain and size.
Worried about getting lost? Don’t! You can set and save your home waypoint with the Geomate.jr so you can always find your way home. The Geomate.jr also saves your found caches, so you can review your found list at any time.

2/4/2015

ZOOB Galax-ZZ-Star Explorer by ALEX BRANDS

Discover exciting new worlds with your epicly sized 28 in long ZOOB® Galax-Z™ Z-Star Explorer™. Your 2 Zoobonauts, Gamma and Helio, are ready to explore uncharted space in dual cockpits! Contains 316 pieces and easy Instructions for 3 alternate builds.

2/3/2015 (MSRP: $140.00; Age: 8 and Up)