K’NEX Family Guy Toys Coming Next Year
K’NEX to create a line of Family Guy toys and building sets.
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Iron Man 3 Toy Reviews
Check out Time To Play’s Iron Man 3 page.
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May The 4th Be With You!
Happy Star Wars Day! Check out my guest post on Arena Blake’s blog, TheNerd’sWife.com
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Kids Just Wanna Have Fun!
What was your favorite toy as a child? If your children were asked to choose their favorite toy, what would be on the list? Photographer Gabriele Galimberti posed this very question to children around the world. He took a photo of each child as they posed with their favorites. Children from wealthier families living in
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Skylanders Happy Meals Heading to McDonald’s
Super-sizing your McDonald’s order will take on a whole new meaning with the arrival of Skylanders Giants in Happy Meals. Starting this Friday (April 12, 2013) and running through May 2, 2013, McDonald’s will be teaming up with Activision to offer Skylanders Happy Meal toys. Each meal will include one of nine figures from both
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Blockbuster Toys from the Big and Small Screen
Blockbuster movie season is fast approaching, and this year promises some big ones. G.I. JOE: Retaliation opens on Friday, March 29. From there the lineup of blockbusters gets even bigger with Iron Man 3 (May 3), Star Trek: Into Darkness (May 17), Epic (May 24), Man of Steel (June 14), Monsters University (June 21), Despicable
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Toy Fair Preview 2013
Time to Play is gearing up for Toy Fair 2013, where we’ll be giving you the scoop on all the latest toys, hottest trends, and coolest celebrities. Toy Fair will kick off on Sunday, February 10 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. But the team at Time to Play has inside
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What’s It Worth?
Virtually any time I go to a gathering and people find out what I do, I get the same question. “I have an old [fill in toy name here]. What is it worth?” Really, it never fails. While I know a lot about toy history, our focus here at Time to Play is on new
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Brave Outpaces All Predictions (Except Ours)
Disney/Pixar’s Brave is now the #1 movie in theaters, and that seems to be a surprise to many but not the team here. Way back in April, we listed Merida dolls on our 2012 Spring Most Wanted list with a warning that stores had probably drastically under-ordered Brave toys. And guess what? The Merida fashion doll from Mattel is now sold out at many locations this past weekend, and Jakks-Pacific has tripled their production of the Merida toys to keep up with the demand.
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Making Messy Messes
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of talking to a lot of moms about a wide variety of products from child development to education to politics. I feel incredibly lucky to be able to have this level of face-to-face dialogue in an often exclusively virtual world.
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Time to Play’s Spring 2012 Most Wanted Toys List
I joined the rest of the gang in NYC today for Time to Play’s Spring 2012 Most Wanted Toys List.
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Awesome Fan Figures: Toy Story
How rad are these real-world figures of Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody from Toy Story?!
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Make It a Classic Summer
So much is written about how kids are consuming electronic media, lulled into a stupor by electronic games and generally disengaged. That may play well in the media, but is it reality? I’m starting to think not so much. I’ve been talking to a ton of parents lately about their plans for the summer and
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Playmates Doing Family Guy Figures
Playmates to release talking Family Guy figures.
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