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The Indoor Toy Made For Outdoor Snow Toy Line: Shredz

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When I first saw the Shredz I thought they were real life size items that you can play with outside. Boy was I wrong about that, these toys are not people ride on toys, these toys are toy ride on toys. It’s actually pretty awesome. They are the first snow-ready action figures for kids,Shredz™! They are perfect for my son Miles because he’s at that age where he combines play into everything he does. If he’s talking up the stairs of course he has a toy in his hand doing the action with him. It’s just perfect for boys with really active imaginations like him.

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This line of collectible, pose-able, snowboarding figures from Swimways’ COOP brand actually hit the slopes and perform awesome tricks in snowy terrain! Using Shredz track building tools, kids can create their own tracks and stunt parks so their figures can carve down hand-made mountains and rip through customized courses for the ultimate snow day activity. It’s the ultimate snow toy!

Now I’m kicking myself because it snowed yesterday and I completely forgot I had these toys for Miles to try out. We ended up just sledding down the hill but we could have had these toys going down with us. Check out this video of the toys in action.

The pieces:

COOP Shredz

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Shred the mountain with TEAM SHREDZ™! Our complete line of poseable snowboarding action figures that actually RIDE the mountain, ripping through any XTREME terrain carved out of snow.

  • Each of the seven characters has his own detachable helmet, snowboard, and ID card.
  • Collect them all! Mix-and-match the helmets and customized snowboards for different looks.

Conquer the mountain with Team SHREDZ – Brett, Brody, Chase, Justin, Luke, Mason, and Shane!

Build It – Carve It- Shred It.

COOP Shredz Track Maker

Carves, scoops, and smooths trails for the most radical ride so Team Shredz™ can actually ride the mountain.

Make your mountain – Use the Shredz Track Maker™ to carve and smooth out the trail – Create a challenging course with the Shredz Xtreme Terrain Park Trick Set™ – Take Shredz™ to the top and let them RIP!

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COOP Shredz Big Air Jump

Set it up in the snow and watch Shredz™ characters soar to radical heights with the Shredz Big Air Jump™!

  • Our jump has a textured finish to give your snowboarding action figure even more air when he’s riding the mountain.
  • Use alone or expand your Shredz Xtreme Terrain Park Trick Set with an extra jump for side-by-side cross races with your Shredz characters!

Great Toy for Boys: Bows & Arrows: Zing Z-Tek Bow & Whistling Arrows

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This toy performs really well giving great distance, and has a cool whistling sound as it flies through the air and does not destroy furniture when used indoors. The arrows are foam and one of them is a suction arrow. Says that you need to make sure the bow is not left in the sun as the bungee cord is UV sensitive. Since we haven’t played with ours we can’t make any judgments on how long the toy will last. It’s only 19.99 on Amazon right now.

 

Get the next big thing in bow technology with the Z-Tek Bow. Check out the sleek new design and shape. Shorter bungees for faster firing. Arrow clips right on the bow for quick reloads and a powerful presence. It’s an all new archery experience with the Z-Tek Bow. Hook in the Zartz Arrow or Zonic Whistling Arrow, position the shot, and watch it fly through the air for an incredible 100 feet!

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Includes:

  • 1 Z-Tek Bow
  • 2 Zonic Whistling Arrows
  • 1 Suction-Cup Zartz Arrow

This toy is going under our Christmas tree for Miles this year. His friends all have bows and arrows and gave him a broken one. I’m not sure how my son managed to fix it, and I’m proud of him for fixing it, but knowing what he’s up against I’m arming him with some reinforcements this year. He’s going to FLIP OUT with this Z-Tek Bow!

Educational Insights The Sea Squad Puppet on a Stick.

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Kids love these. Every time Miles sees one of these he wants to play with it. There is something genous about putting a toy on a stick. You get to go fishing for fun. Meet Flipper, Dipper, Chomper and Bob. Express yourself with these silly creatures from the sea. Choose a shark, angler fish, octopus, or clam and get hooked on dramatic play. The Sea Squad is recommended for grades Pre-K+/Ages 3+The Sea Squad Puppet-on-a-Stick

About the Sea Squad:

  • Each puppet measures 11" x 3"
  • Box contains 4 Different Puppets: 1 Clam, 1 Shark, 1 Angler, 1 Octopus, as shown in the picture
  • Simple movable mouth mechanism
  • Inspires dramatic and creative play
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    Meet The Sea Squad: Flipper the anglerfish, Dipper the octopus, Chomper the shark, and Bob the clam. Their googly eyes, vivid colors, and hilarious expressions will inspire all sorts of creative play in an instant.

    The Sea Squad Puppet-on-a-Stick

    Flipper the anglerfish, Dipper the octopus, Chomper the shark, and Bob the clam. I love the dramatic play kids experience, while developing communication skills and practicing real and imaginary dialogue! Pretend play and puppet shows become a splash with these comical marine friends and story time is transformed into an adventure. The patent-pending design marries an easy-glide child-sized thumb lever and a chunky, secondary knob, giving kids two ways to articulate each puppet’s mouth. Built to last through many childhoods, each puppet’s soft-touch molded body reinforce our hallmark Educational Insights quality standard. Take a swim with The Sea Squad! Perfect for puppet shows, story time, circle time, and more!

    The Sea Squad Puppet-on-a-Stick

    Meet Sea Squad Puppet inventor Brent Geppert

    Educational Insights toys and games manager Brent Geppert has something up his sleeve—a puppet! Raised on The Muppet Show, this former college radio DJ and longtime puppet lover puts on nightly puppet shows for his two sons, complete with voices and sound effects. The puppets are comprised of whatever is "handy"—socks, pillows, dinner rolls, and more. Talk about hands-on fun!

    My Little Pony Equestria Girls

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    we received samples.

    My daughter is a huge fan of My Little Pony, and my son actually is too. We recently received a sample doll and the new movie from My Little Pony introducing us to the new My Little Pony Equestria Girls.

    About the Movie My Little Pony Equestria Girls

    Join Twilight Sparkle And Her New Canterlot High Friends In This Brand-New Animated Feature!
    When her crown is stolen from the Crystal Empire, Twilight pursues the thief, Sunset Shimmer, into an alternate world where she finds herself turned into…a teenage girl! To regain her crown and return to Equestria, Twilight must learn how to fit into this strange new world and defeat Sunset Shimmer in a competition to become crowned Princess of the Fall Formal at Canterlot High. Luckily, she’ll have the assistance of Spike and five teenage girls who remind her of a certain group of ponies back home. IMG_7508

    For fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, there are lots of Easter eggs, such as Scootaloo doing the chicken dance and Fluttershy’s meeting Spike paralleling her original meeting Spike as a pony. (For non-fans, Scootaloo is a young Pegasus type pony who was called a chicken by one of her friends.) Others aren’t as obvious and can only be seen by watching the background characters. Watch to the end of the credits to find all the Easter eggs.

    My kids really enjoyed watching the movie, I hate to admit it but it was hard for me to get any work done because I was watching it too. Most children’s programming now doesn’t include learning a lesson, so seeing the kids actually follow that there are consequences to bad behavior and benefits to having and trusting friends are good lessons for kids and it makes me happy to know this is coming through.

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    The doll? my daughter loves the My Little Pony Fluttershy. She’s willing to give away two of her toys to keep it. I like that they are dressed well and have cute boots. Yep, I have a weakness for boots you know.

    This Fluttershy doll will be a true friend for all your Equestria Girls adventures! She has a soft, sweet look and loves putting on her flowing dress with a cute purse. She can’t wait to enjoy ""magical"" fun with her very best friend – you! My Little Pony and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro.

    Product Description

    Check out the My Little Pony Equestria Girls Fluttershy Doll! This collectible figure combines the awesome styling of Friendship Is Magic with classic dolls, giving girls a chance to combine their favorite horses. Each figure has hair that matches her pony counterpart, plus a dress that builds on her own unique personality and cutie mark. Don’t miss this one!

    • Fluttershy doll
    • Collect all the Equestria Girls dolls (each sold separately)
    • Includes clip-in ponytail
    • Doll comes with accessory

    Mega Bloks® Barbie® Build ‘n Style Luxury Mansion @MegaBloks #Giveaway

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    Zoe and Miles are dying to open the Mega Bloks® Barbie® Build ‘n Style Luxury Mansion that we have to review. This house is a really great size and would work well with all those little dolls the size of Polly Pocket and Zoe has a ton of those. She has Princesses, and even a few mini Barbie dolls that she got at McDonalds. She loves it!!!!

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    With the Mega Bloks® Barbie® Build ‘n Style Luxury Mansion your little one can design a dream-house-come-true.  The Mega Bloks® Barbie® Build ‘n Style Luxury Mansion allows them to decorate eight interchangeable rooms that can be built any way they want! Barbie can build a bedroom with a beautiful canopy bed, a fun living room where Barbie and friends can relax or a bathroom with a “bubbly” tub! – It’s totally up to you! Take the working elevator all the way to the top floor for a super fun party with Mini-Fashion Figures Barbie, Teresa and all their friends. It’s going to provide hours and hours of fun as it encourages imaginative play.

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    Features:

    · The Barbie fabulous luxury mansion with eight buildable rooms to design and decorate!

    · A real working elevator

    · Glam accessories for endless design and decoration possibilities

    · Mini-Fashion Figures Barbie and Teresa each with extra outfits they can share!

    · Combine with all of the other Mega Bloks Barbie playsets to build a fabulous world of fashion, friends and fun!

    For fans ages 4 and up.

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    About Mega Bloks® Barbie™

    Young girls will be empowered to build ‘n style their very own Mega Bloks Barbie world, with over 300 specially-designed pieces and tons of detailed accessories. Collect up to 19 mini-fashion dolls — including Barbie, Teresa, Nikki and of course Ken — with changeable hair, accessories and clothing styles! There’s lots of great places to shop, like the Fashion Boutique and the Pet Shop. Hang out at home in the personalized Luxury Mansion, relax at the pool or hop in your convertible and head to the beach house!

    Mega Bloks Barbie will be hitting stores on December 12 in North America and Spring 2013 internationally.

    Enter to Win:

    Mega Bloks Barbie Build ‘n Style Luxury Mansion

    Retail value, $79.99

    All prizing provided by Mega Bloks

    Giveaway open to US addresses only

    To Enter:

    Tell me what Mega Bloks Theme you like most

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    This giveaway ends December 11th. Please see the giveaway rules . We received a sample

    Your Neighborhood Toy Store: Find Joy & Excitement in Today’s Best Toys

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    Picking out toys for your children can be a daunting task at time. There are so many to choose from, you often wonder if the toy will last and you want to know if your child is going to play with it more than just an hour after they open it. A new resource launched this September for parents·interested in learning more about the best toys on the market and where to find them, YourNeighborhoodToyStore.org. They even sent me this really cool toy made out of plants- natural rubber and wheat plastic. I never would have found a toy like that on my own.

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    WooHoo_200x200The new website is a one-stop resource that connects you with local toy stores, specialty toy makers and industry experts so you can find the joy and excitement in today’s best toys. WooHoo, you will discover the “woohoo” in toys! I just looked up all of the local stores in my areas and they are some really great toy stores that I already love to visit.

    1 Snapdoodle Toys
    7330 NE Bothell Way
    Kenmore, WA 98028
    www.snapdoodletoys.com

    2 Teri’s Toybox
    420 Main St
    Edmonds, WA 98020

    3 Math ‘n’ Stuff
    8926 Roosevelt Way NE
    Seattle, WA 98115
    www.mathnificent.com

    4 Tree Top Toys
    15752 Redmond Way
    Redmond, WA 98052

    5 Planet Happy
    2914 NE 55th St
    Seattle, WA 98105

    Your Neighborhood Toy Store Information Includes:

    Feature articles with expert advice on toys and play for children of all ages

    Up-to-date information on creative and educational play and toy trends

    Handy toy store locator with information on where to find the best toys in your neighborhood (Don’t forget: local, independent toy stores support the community and tend to offer many high-quality, specialty products not typically found at a big box store!)

    Calendar of local toy-related events

    Information on the benefits of shopping local

    Toy buying guide by age, including a section for children with disabilities

    SO while you’re looking for toys to purchase this holiday season be sure to check out YourNeighborhoodToyStore.org.

     

     

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    The Motorcycle Gang

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    The kids in our neighborhood are such ruffians. They scream, they shout, they drive too fast! In our neighborhood we call them the Motorcycle Gang. It’s a group of kids that ride motorcycles any time the rain stops, well sometimes they even ride their motorcycles in the rain. It’s a mother’s nightmare.

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    I know, at first glance they all look way to sweet to be any trouble at all right. Especially that red headed one on the left, that one he’s a charmer, but watch out he’s trouble with a capital “T”. He’ll just bat his eyes at you and smile until you give him what he wants. At first, we only had two motorcycles in the neighborhood. Our Hungarian neighbor across the street brought this trouble with her. The whole lot of them should be banned for starting up the motorcycle gang. She still has family that lives there and that’s where the motorcycles came from. These plastic balance bikes we know and love in our neighborhood spread like wild fire. And honestly, I’m actually to blame for the size of our Motorcycle gang, not my neighbor.

    I couldn’t keep my child off of their motorcycle so I had to get one for my children and one turned into two and another neighbor now has one too. So we have five superMopi riders total. Other children in the neighborhood have found other balance bikes so our gang is now up to 8. Finding the plastic balance bike (the SuperMopi) on the internet to purchase for my own children was a pain in the butt. You try typing in Hungarian Balance Bike, or Hungary Plastic Motorcycle, I had to look at pages and pages of balance bikes that were not what I was looking for. Until I finally found SuperMopi on Amazon.

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    On Amazon you can buy them in two sizes, Large and Extra Large. I recommend just getting the extra large. My neighbor has on that is even larger than the extra large, the difference is like an inch or two but for me I think the larger the better because the kids are just going to grow. Most balance bikes just cost too much for what they are. There are wooden balance bikes and metal balance bikes and in our climate I’m afraid of rust and mildew. So the SuperMOPI was right our my alley plus the price was much better than anyone else’s.

    Final note:

    If you’re thinking of visiting our neighborhood, watch out for the Motorcycle Gang!

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    Disclosure: We purchased Two of these balance bikes because we LOVE them!!!