SCHYLLING TOYS Next year, Schylling Toys will introduce a broad new product line, including an expansion of its Schylling Classics line. Along with new games, musical instruments, pretend play, and novelties, there will be SteelWorks a new tin line featuring vehicles, robots, and animals with wind-up and friction motors. These toys are intended to let kids unplug, engage, and have lots of fun. Schylling will make headway into the construction toys category with the classic construction toy SteelWorks, which tests the design and construction prowess of builders. The new line will feature sets that include tools, working gears, tractor treads, and more. Kids can use SteelWorks to assemble real working toys limited only by their imaginations. For the specialty market, Schylling will introduce Scentos, a line of scented markers, pens, and pencils featuring wacky collectible characters and vibrant colors. Designed to be easy to hold and control, they come with durable tips and savory aromas. The line will also include Scentos Dough, a super-soft modeling compound available in different colors and scents, as well as various assortments. The TX Juice Ai Drone boasts artificial intelligence technology that allows for auto-hover and auto-land options, as well as proximity sensors that detect and help the R/C drone avoid obstacles. Frustrating take-off and landing crashes are now a thing of the past, and the TX Juice Ai Drone can even be flown one-handed. Schylling will also produce an innovative line of new Lava Lamps in celebration of the brand’s 50th anniversary. New additions include Lava Sand, Lava Ooze, and more.
PLASMART Cut, connect, and create with PlaSmart’s Smart Noodles Link’Ems, pool noodles that link themselves laterally when kids slide them together. Kids can make a raft or an air mattress, or slice them with a plastic knife and use their imaginations to create interesting critters or other objects. They can play with them as traditional pool noodles or opt for other play possibilities in the water, yard, or indoors. PlaSmart also encourages kids to get moving with its PlasmaCar, a car powered by the most inexhaustible form of energy: kid power. PlasmaCar has no batteries, gears, or pedals and can support up to 220 pounds. It can turn and navigate in small spaces indoors, as well as ride outdoors on sidewalks, pathways, and any other safe, smooth, flat surface. Also new from PlaSmart is its Kick Flippers. It teaches kids the basic movements essential for skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfboarding but in the safety of a front yard or on a carpet. Users will get some exercise, increase their levels of balance and skill, build muscle tone and cardio strength, and engage their imaginations as they develop and practice their own tricks.
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Kick Flippers
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015