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Kids Toys

Banks for kids: the most useful kinds

November 7, 2010

As I believe I have mentioned, we have tons of coin banks in our house and they get a fair amount of use in all kinds of ways. I wouldn’t suspect that coin banks would be played with so much, but the kids get them out to play with them all the time. Their actual [...]

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The Best Kids Banks: Non-Piggy Banks

November 5, 2010

In looking into the reason why we have so many piggy banks at my house ( and why they are played with so much) I happened on some banks in the shapes of non-porcine animals. The cutest may be the Moo-la bank by Streamline you see above. I also kind of love Streamline’s Kam Kam [...]

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Pinkalicious

October 8, 2010

Have you met Pinkalicious yet? If you have a pink loving little girl (or boy, there are no gender stereotypes at the Toy Report) then you may have already heard of her. The Pinkalicious phenomenon began as a single book about a pink loving girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns pink (the [...]

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Lego Advent Calendar 2010

September 14, 2010

It’s that time of year again. Most of your aren’t thinking about Christmas toys yet, but here at Chez Toy Report we starting thinking about the holiday season as soon as school starts. We’re big fans of the Lego Advent Calendars that the LEGO Group puts out each year (yeah, the official company name really [...]

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Lego Architecture Series

August 24, 2010

I thought I knew all things Lego, but I came across these Lego Architecture Series sets the other day and had never heard of them before. Probably the fact that our oldest kids are only 7 and they would never use up valuable shelf space at our local Toys R Us with such interesting toys. [...]

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Soccer Horns? Get Your Own Vuvuzela

June 16, 2010

If your kids are football fans, or soccer as we call it here in the States, then likely you’ve heard the sound of the vuvuzela without knowing it. For those of you American’s living in a box, the World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with well over 10% of [...]

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Has There Been A Silly Bands Recall?

June 6, 2010

Seems like with every super popular kids toy or trend, there are always rumors of a recall. The shelves empty, news reports that the popular toys are banned from schools, and suddenly everyone is asking if there has been a recall. We get a decent amount of our readers from web searches like Google or [...]

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Kung Zhu Warrior Hamster Update

June 1, 2010

Looks like Cepia, the maker of the smash hit toy Zhu Zhu Hamster line of Christmas 2009, has released more details on their new Kung Zhu ninja hamster line recently. These little robotic hamster warriors were announced at the New York Toy Fair earlier this year, and they are about to be released! Kung Zhu [...]

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Stroller toys

May 25, 2010

I was thinking about stroller toys earlier today. I have absolutely no idea why, but the human mind is a strange place and so for no apparent reason I was thinking about stroller toys. We have never been big stroller people, not for any particular reason except I am lazy and carrying a baby seems [...]

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Silly Bandz Silly Rubber Bands

April 25, 2010

Wearing a wrist full of colored bands has finally returned! It’s always great to see an old fashion mainstay come back to be enjoyed by another generation. Being a guy I never owned leg warmers (my sister certainly did), I did have quite a Jams collection, as well as a pile of paisley ties. I [...]

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