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This winter, Playmobil will expand its product offering with the fully furnished Camping Lodge, featuring a cooking area with food, pots, pans, dishes, and more. The set also includes an outdoor shower, a bathroom, and a zipline. Other accessories include an adult figure, three child figures, an archery target with a bow and arrow, a communal table with benches, a campfire, a violin, a soccer ball, and more. The Camping Lodge is designed for kids ages 4 and up. Kids can step up to the Ice Cream Truck window to order a sweet treat, available in a dish or cone. The window door lowers when it’s time to close the shop for the day. Designed for kids ages 4 and up, the set includes an adult figure, three child figures, a table, ice cream, cones, dishes, an ice scream scooper, beverages, and other accessories. My Take Along Farm has a colorful design and large, round pieces. Toddlers can feed the animals and store all the supplies in the loft, as well as pay close attention to which shapes fit in the specific holes. The farm closes up and all the pieces fit inside when playtime is over. The set includes a character figure, a cow, a pig, a dog, a car, a bird, and other accessories. Kids can browse the showroom and enjoy the luxury of a sports car with the Porsche 911 Targa 4S. The Porsche has functioning front, rear, and dashboard lights, and a removable roof. The Porsche comes with two figures, a showroom wall, a seating area, a car jack, tools, and other accessories. Camping Lodge
EDUSHAPE The Edushape Marbulous Marble Run is a marble track set that allows kids to build their own tracks and load marbles for fun with lots of twists and turns. Kids can construct the colorful plastic tracks in multiple ways, which develops motor skills, spatial relations, and logic, and is great for solo or social play. Designed for kids ages 4 and up, each set includes 80 building pieces and 20 marbles. The Edushape Gummy Ball Teether is a toy and teether all in one. Infants can learn to grasp and hold while chewing on the multi-textured Gummy Ball Teether. The durable, soft, and safe teether comes three to a pack and features nine different nubs for nibbling.
Marbulous Marble Run
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REDWOOD VENTURES RedwoodVentures introduces IDO3D Vertical sets with color-changing ink. Kids can use the pen to create 3-D works of art that change color when cooled below 62 degrees. Kids ages 8 and up can use the included guidebooks or their own imaginations to create masterpieces. Artists just place the clear flat sheet over the template, hold the pen light to dry and harden the ink, dip the creations in cool water or put them in the freezer, and watch them change color.