@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Dunecraft had it’s meat eating plant kits as well as the “grow your own lily pad” products. There are three types of meat eating plant kits, Pitcher Plant Predators and Sundew Savages. It’s fun to imagine lots of people planting harmless seeds and growing them in to vicious bug-eating monsters. […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Duncan Yo-Yos had a small but fun area, a full time Yo-Yoer on staff and their latest line up. I tend to like tops & gyroscopes, but they also had a new product line called “Tetratops” – these are multi-axis spinners and can be stacked (this was developed by the […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I think I saw the most dice in one place possible, Koplow has over 1,200 types of standard and polyhedral dice. They have an educational line with math, fraction, decimal, +/-, blank numbered and more. Novelty dice, mini dice, wood dice, dice bones, dice made from wood. Alphabet dice, cat […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Interesting idea – Playing games using Morel, the yellow object in the picture. Morel is an outdoor toy which communicates with each other wirelessly, with each having the ability to make other Morels kick the ground and jump by squeezing on them. Here, the guy in the middle is trying […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 the DADO cubes are one of the few USA designed, developed and manufactured building products. These “cubes” explore architectural principles… proportion, balance, structure, composition, and color. While I think these blocks are good for kids, I suspect artists will start tinkering with them soon. Their clear version “Ice” is just […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 the National Toy Hall of Fame brought out part of their massive collection of old (and what I think are timeless) toys. They also had a full time Etch-a-sketch artist, Tim George – cranking, er, twisting out tons of of art on site. To date, the following 38 toys have […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Insect Lore showed off their live butterfly, ladybug, silkworm and other insect kits for education / home use. You don’t need to catch the Butterflies, they actually ship live caterpillars. They also have an earthworm nursery, for some reason I really like the idea of kids raising worms… and of […]
