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EITECH will introduce Dinosaur Series T-Rex The Eitech Dinosaur Series. The series will launch with three dinosaurs—Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, and T-Rex—that kids can build with the Eitech steel. Each set develops 3-D thinking and promotes creativity, learning skills, and fun. Kids can tap into their imaginations to design and engineer a dino structure with autentic details, including the lifelike building tools, metal building pieces, and illustrated instructions.
WONDER FORGE’s Care Bears Matching Game is a picturematching game featuring kids’ favorite Team Care-a-Lot characters. Players try to flip over brightly colored tiles to match pictures of Wonderheart Bear, Cheer Bear, Tenderheart Bear, Funshine Bear, and more.
KAHOOTZ gets kids designing with the Action Plates set, which lets young artists create their own action hero characters through mixing and matching. Kids combine different rubbing plates together in the Action Plates tablet, and then pass the rubbing tool across a few times to see the design transfer onto the included sketch paper. Kids can add colors and details using the textures built into the back of each Action Plate. Each set includes the drawing tablet, double-sided plates, crayons, a storage tray, and more. With the Fashion Plates Design Set, kids create their own stylish designs by combining the different rubbing plates together in the Fashion Plates tablet, and then passing the rubbing tool across, transferring the design onto the sketch paper. The set includes the drawing tablet, doublesided plates, colored pencils, a carry-along portfolio, and more. New Fashion Plates expansion sets include the Glamour Collection, which lets kids create designer gowns and dresses with 10 new plates, and the Sports Collection, which introduces sporty styles and fitness fashions through 10 new plates. For both sets, fashion textures are built into the backs of each plate. All Fashion Plates expansion sets utilize the drawing tablet found in the Fashion Plates Design Set, and they can be mixed and matched to create more unique styles. Play-Doh Classic Style Fun Tools features a vintage-style reusable storage can, eight cans of Play-Doh, and a set of classic-style tools with the look of real wood, but the durability and safety of plastic. It also comes with a laminated, double-sided play mat with picture-based building recipes. The Play-Doh Classic Style Fun Factory includes a vintage-style storage box, eight cans of Play-Doh, 12 shape plates, and the Fun Factory itself, modeled after the version first introduced in 1960. The plates slide onto the factory chute and pump out unique Play-Doh forms, while the laminated play mat features picture-based building recipes. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Spirograph, the Spirograph Die-Cast Collector’s Set is upgraded for the first time ever in diecast metal. Each set includes golden die-cast metal wheels, a golden die-cast metal ring, ballpoint pens, reusable spiro-putty, a collector’sedition display tin, and more.
SPECIALTY TOYS & GIFTS
S22
MAY/JUNE 2015