A poll held by ToyNews on Stardoll has revealed that most girls are hoping to receive a Furby from Santa this Christmas. The online fashion community for girls asked its users to pick just one toy that they're hoping to get this ...
Playmobil has released its first ever game app. Plamobil Pirates is available on iOS platforms now and is set to hit Android's Google Play store soon. In the game players take control of popular figures from Playmobil's popular Pirates ...
The majority of chronic diseases Russian kids contract are caused by toxic toys,a new report has claimed. A team tested over 500 randomly selected toys bought in shops and markets in towns across Russia,and almost a third were proven to ...
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LEGO says its new entertainment franchise Legends of Chima will be a hit with boys–just like the Ninjago brand is. The firm even expects Chima sales to grow 30 per cent more in 2013 than Ninjago did in 2012. Legends of Chima toys ...
Editor's note: We recently asked readers to share their thoughts on what is the best part of this season. Following is a selection of readers' favorite traditions. Truth be known The year I found out the truth about Santa Claus, it was ...
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Nancy Stanek is used to predictions of her toy shops' demise. In the 1970s, catalogs were expected to be the death of her Toys et Cetera stores. Then it was the big-box discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target. More recently, the big, ...
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Argos'partnership with Barnardo's has resulted in a£700,000 bumper pre-Christmas bonus for the children's charity. During the six-week Toy Exchange campaign with the retailer,donations to Barnardo's rose by over 71,000 bags. Those ...
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Bucky Balls and other novelty desk toys made from rare earth metals face a looming ban by the US government due to consumer safety concerns. Gizmodo reports that Bucky Balls and Zen Magnets, popular office trinkets which are essentially ...
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Peterkin has signed the exclusive UK and Ireland rights to Amazing Live Sea Monkeys. The deal is effective now and the first wave of crustaceans will be available from Peterkin in time for Easter. Peterkin Head of Sales and ...
Golden Bear has restructured its senior management and hired a new marketing director. Barry Hughes,who joined as commercial director in 2011,has been promoted to general manager.He will have the responsibility of managing the business ...
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This month could set a new toy sales record in the UK, thanks to two extra shopping days compared to 2011. However, retail sales tracker NPD also says that despite sales potentially topping £400 million in the last three weeks of ...
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Danish company The Eye Tribe is leading a new project that will make it possible to control smartphones and tablets using eye movements. The three-year project is called "Eye Tracking for mobile devices" and toy maker Lego Systems is ...
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A fresh range of card games that work using iPad and smartphone apps are about to hit toy retail. AppCards, the new range from Jumbo Games, consists of three multiplayer titles: Colour Slam, Sound Bingo and PimPamPet. Each will retail ...
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Exhibitor numbers up for the second year running; Show almost sold-out. The Harrogate Nursery Fair, which takes place between March 24th and 26th, is predicting 2013 to be its biggest show on record after seeing a ‘significant ...
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Are the days of a single hot toy over? Retailers predict kids tablets, Furby, Nerf and LEGO to be this year's top sellers. Most of the UK’s top retailers of toys believe that rival kids’ learning tablets LeapPad 2 and InnoTab2 ...
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