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July 2010 | Vol. IX - No. 7
July 2010 | Vol. IX - No. 7
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Watch Toy Videos of the Day: Week 3 (7/19-7/23)


July's Videos of the Day for Week 3 feature a fast-paced (if you're any good) Spot It! game from Blue Orange, an utterly perplexing maze game from PlaSmart, a crime scene with fingerprints and all, and more.

(Also watch videos from Week 1 and Week 2 for the month of July)




Age Range: 6 and up
Gender: Boys And Girls
Category: General Games



Spot It is a party game for two to eight players. It's played by laying a random assortment of cards on the table and all players racing to find one image that matches between two cards. This fast-paced game is designed to never be the same twice, and though it has very few rules to remember it requires a sharp eye to master. The set of 55 round cards transports in its own carry tin and comes with illustrated instructions. Watch Spot It: Top-5 Video, Toy Fair 2010
— "Loved this game," Kate Tanner of Kidstop Toys told TDmonthly at Toy Fair 2010. Two of 12 retailers who attended ASTRA 2010 named this game as one of their show favorites in summer 2010.
— Ten percent of 40 retailers told TDmonthly in early summer 2010 that Spot It is an overall top seller. “We opened it and played it and it's fun. It's got a good price point,” Sherry Phipps, owner of School Crossing, Inc. in Williamsburg, Va., told TDmonthly in June 2010.

Awards: 2010 TDmonthly Top Seller
Past videos: ASTRA 2010, WTHRA 2010

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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 27018      (added 2/11/2010)
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MSRP: $24.99
Gender: Boys And Girls
Category: General Games
Travel
General Toys



This see-through sphere houses a 3-D labyrinth game with 100 barriers, turns, twists and cliffhangers that serve as obstacles to getting a small steel ball to the end. Perplexus was invented by Michael McGinnis, a 3-D design teacher, in the 1970s.
— At Izilla Toys in Seattle, "Perplexus is selling really, really well for us. It is awesome. I just ordered more this morning, cause I sold out in both stores in four days. We're going through about 12 a week," Co-owner Jude Larene told TDmonthly in late fall 2009.
— This game is a top-10 best seller at Dancing Bear Toys in Asheville and Hendersonville, N.C., sisters and owners Sarah and Erika Evers told TDmonthly in early summer 2010. “I can't believe that ball went all the way through the maze!” Sarah said. “I spent the whole day focused on that!”
― Two of 40 retailers listed Perplexus as their top-selling puzzle during a June 2010 survey.

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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 26245      (added 12/2/2009)
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Made in the USA, this soap is organic and contains ingredients including safflower and/or sunflower, palm and coconut oils; lavender, geranium and ylang ylang essential oils; jojoba oil and rosemary extract. It's designed to be gentle and soothing for the skin.

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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 27969      (added 4/12/2010)
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Age Range: 3 to 92
Gender: Girls
Category: Plush
Fashion & Accessories



This Yorkie plush features two-tone modacrylic fur in tan and black and wears a rock-and-roll-inspired vest. Her fur is pulled into a "ponytail" decorated with a bone-shaped hair accessory. Peas is available in plush and handbag versions.

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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 29479      (added 7/13/2010)
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Age Range: 6 and up
Gender: Boys And Girls
Category: Card Games
Dice
General Games



In this game, everyone plays the role of detective and suspect. At the beginning of the game, each player blindly draws a card from the deck, and the character on the card becomes their secret identity. The dealer deals the cards and roll the dice to set up the crime scene. Players can “solve the case” by matching their six fingerprint cards to the six fingerprint dice, and can "tamper with the evidence” by drawing a new card, or re-rolling one of the dice.

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ToyDirectory Product ID#: 29482      (added 7/13/2010)
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