Fall Toy Preview2012 University Games Eats Zombies
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niversity Games introduces a new lineup of games. In Deer in the Headlights, the first player to avoid the deer and empty their hand wins. The custom twodeck card set comes with wooden dice stored in a decorative matchbox so the game can be played anywhere. In Tinga Tinga Tales Create-A-Creature Game, players make original animals based on artwork from the Disney Junior show Tinga Tinga Tales. Don’t Tip the Cows is a stackable challenge in which players take turns stacking and tipping 18 unsteady cows. While Smart Ass will challenge players’ knowledge, a more classic game, Pub Trivia, requires teams to answer questions about sports, entertainment, and science. In other classic game formats, World’s Best Dice Games allows players to play a variety of different games, and Spot the Difference Tin will test players’ ability to find the differences in two images quickly. In I Ate Zombies, players race to get rid of their vampire, werewolf, and zombie cards to win. Turncoat requires players to place four of their pieces in a row, but the magnet in each piece helps or hinders the effort to reach this goal. More than 100,000 different board combinations keep Turncoat fresh and new each time it is played.
56 • THE TOY BOOK
Folkmanis Is a Barrel of Fun
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olkmanis introduces the 10inch tall Monkey in Barrel Puppet. When the monkey is pulled down into the soft microfiber barrel, the barrel lid closes. Pop the monkey out for a playful surprise.
NKOK Knows Racing
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KOK introduces new toys featuring Scooby Doo, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing. The Scooby Doo products include the radio controlled Scooby Doo Off Road Mystery Machine with sculpted figures and working lights; the Scooby Doo Lights and Sounds ATV, a free wheel ATV with lights, sounds, and a non-poseable figure; and the Scooby Doo Slot Car Set with 8 feet of track, glow-in-the-dark railings and stickers, and Mystery Machine and Monster Hearse cars equipped with working headlights. The SpongeBob line includes a 1:24-scale RC Krabby Patty; the SpongeBob Wheelie Hot Rod that pops wheelies with lights, sounds, and a rumbling motor; and the RC Flying SpongeBob, which flies through the air with propellers. NKOK’s Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing line includes Sonic Die Cast Racers with Sonic characters behind the wheel; Sonic Battery-Operated Racers with lights, sounds, and motion when activated; and Sonic All-Stars Racing RC, a 1:24scale Sonic Racer with working lights.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012