Cardinal Cardinal offers kids a hands-on Chuggington experience with its line of high-quality puzzles, including wood puzzles, lenticular puzzles, floor puzzles, and basic puzzles. With the A-Round Me Floor Puzzle, the child actually builds the puzzle in a circle around them on the floor. It comes with a bonus puzzle as well.
Rubie’s Costume Co. Rubie’s Costume Co. offers kids the chance to dress up like Chuggington and friends. Wilson is the lovable little red engine. This two-piece costume includes a red foam romper and hat. Brewster is known for being steady and strong. His costume includes a twopiece blue-and-yellow foam romper and hat. The adventurous electric engine, Koko, has a costume that features a two-piece green foam romper and hat (shown here).
The Wonder Forge The Traintastic Cargo Game, from The Wonder Forge, is a game of memory, pattern matching, and discovery. A trainload of surprises is chugging into the depot. Can you find the right cargo? Look inside the boxcars for the shapes, colors, and numbers you need. But watch out—you never know when Old Puffer Pete will chug around the track and mix everything up.
Giddy Up Giddy Up is in the process of developing technology-based coloring and drawing activities and books using platforms such as its ColorBlast magic reveal coloring activity and the new Magnix Play Scene format.
Mega Brands The Chuggington Coaster is the heart of the world of Chuggington, featuring a wrap-around air-track. This buildable play set includes the Clock-Tower, Train-Station, and two collectible chuggers: Wilson and Action Chugger, as well as a jet-pack with sky-rail. This play set can be combined with other Chuggington characters and play sets to further build a child’s Chuggington adventures. Additional Chuggington items from Mega include the Roundhouse Race Set, Koko’s Ice Adventure, Old Puffer Pete’s Garage, and the Buildable Chuggers Assortment. Mega Bloks’ Chuggington items will be available internationally this fall, and in the U.S. next spring.
Learning Curve Brands Featuring SmartTalk technology, Learning Curve’s Chuggington Interactive Railway engines recognize and interact with one another and with key buildings and tunnels in the collection. The more engines, buildings, and tunnels that are added, the more interactive the world becomes. The specialty retail-exclusive Chuggington Wooden Railway features a series of robust, brightly colored engines, starter train sets, and modular buildings and tunnels all constructed with classic, high-quality wood. The Chuggington Wooden Railway is expandable and compatible with all other major wooden railway toys. Also available is an array of Chuggington die-cast and play sets.
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MARCH/APRIL 2011