What’s New Glow, Learn, Explore with University Games
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reat Explorations, a line from University Games that encourages curiosity and exploration with glowing celestial experiences, will expand this year to include the Glowing Planetarium. With its fiery orange appearance, the Glowing Planetarium serves as the perfect sun for any solar system. It projects stars onto walls as it rotates, creating an immersive celestial experience. The new line of Great Explorations STEAM Learning Kits teaches kids about science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics through hands-on activities led by Professor Flubberstein. With the Build Your Own Robot Kit, kids can build a dancing robot while learning about pulleys, circuits, voltage, and current. In the Egg Drop Kit, kids explore a classic engineering challenge while learning about force, design, and efficiency. The line features more than 10 kits with different activities to appeal to all interests.
Jazwares Brings Virtual Worlds to Life
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azwares will launch its second sandbox gaming toy line with characters from the video game Terraria. Fans will now have the chance to take the virtual fun into the real world with this toy line, which includes figures, role-play products, play sets, plush, and electronics, including the Night’s Edge Sword and the Biome multi-level play set with an exclusive figure. Jazwares’ launch of a Peppa Pig toy line will encourage imagination and creativity as Peppa will have an accessory, plush, or play set for every occasion. The toy line includes Peppa’s Family Campervan, which includes two Peppa figures, a grill, and a table. Blueprints Paper Craft lets kids discover ways to take what they see in the virMarvel Paper Craft tual world and physically re-create it in the real world. The line includes figures, vehicles, and entire play environments all made from paper. Paper Craft will be available in licenses including Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Marvel, Star Wars, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Jazwares will release three new series of Bungees characters, along with new game boards and accessories so players can become the ultimate Bungees Masters. The line will debut new Bungees characters for series two, a new collectors board for the deluxe pack, and a battleground expansion pack that includes extra accessories. Jazwares will launch new Teen Titans Go! toys, including a new line of 5-inch articulated figures featuring Night Wing and Speedy. The line will also expand into plush, figures, play sets, and role play to enhance Bungees Battleground game play and imagination.
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