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You Can Have Anything You Want at Elmo’s Restaurant

Order up, Elmo! In the Fisher-Price Elmo’s Restaurant playset, kids can manage their own eatery with help from their Sesame Street pals. On one side of the set you have the kitchen, which comes complete with pretend burners (sizzle sound effects...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Dec 22nd, 2009, 3:03 pm
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Playmobil Egyptian Pyramid Every Bit a World Wonder

Sure, it’s really big — 21″ x 21″ x 14″, to be exact — but size is just one of the things this multiple-award-winning Playmobil Egyptian Pyramid playset has going for it. History-curious kids will find a fun inroad...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Nov 2nd, 2009, 9:00 am
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Fisher-Price Imaginext Dragon World Fortress

My sons all started playing with Fisher-Price’s Imaginext toys at around age 3, and all these years on, even our oldest, who’s 9, remains up for a battle, rescue mission or adventure with the toys. It hasn’t hurt that Imaginext sets,...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Oct 13th, 2009, 10:00 am
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Giveaway!! Bitty Bears in Costumes

What’s cuter than an itty bitty teddy bear? An itty bitty bear dressed up for Halloween. The uterus-flipping cuteness of Calico Critters has met Halloween, and did we mention there’s a giveaway involved here? The little bears are trick or...
Continue reading » Posted by jeannesager on Oct 12th, 2009, 11:26 am
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Fisher-Price TRIO Building System

Take the Imaginext building sets you already know and love, add some simplified snap-together action, and you’ve got TRIO, Fisher-Price’s new line of chunky construction toys aimed at kids in the 4-7 range. (Though, as a test of TRIO with...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Sep 30th, 2009, 2:49 pm
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Soft Fabric Tool Box Playset

No noise, no ouchies, and nothing hard about it: just part of the reason I’m digging this soft fabric tool box from Pockets of Learning. Wee ones can play Handy Manny with a hammer, drill, ruler, saw, screwdriver and wrench, and when playtime...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 16th, 2009, 8:30 am
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TIE Fighter Playhouse for Star Wars Kids

Of course we all know that no Imperial TIE Fighter pilot would ever be forced to share a cockpit with two fellow officers — but as you can see, three’s evidently not a crowd for the TIE Fighter Playhouse. Oddly enough, this is just the...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 1st, 2009, 9:30 am