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Rio Video Game to Release April 12
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
THQ, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products will release a fast-paced, party-style video game inspired by Fox’s upcoming animated 3-D movie Rio on April 12. The movie will debut in theaters on April 15.
The video game will be available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, the Wii system, and the Nintendo DS family of hand-held systems.
Tags: Fox, Rio, THQ, video game
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Mega Bloks Launches Tour for Halo Vehicle
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Mega Bloks has launched a North American tour for the Mega Bloks Halo Vehicle, inspired by Halo’s Warthog. The vehicle will be traveling across Canada and the U.S., making appearances at toy shows, convention centers, retail stores, and more. The vehicle’s first stop was at the Javits Convention Center in New York City during American International Toy Fair.
Tags: American International Toy Fair, Halo, Javits Convention Center, Mega Bloks, Warthog
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Pirates: On Stranger Tides Merchandise to Debut Beginning in March
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
At a pirate-themed preview event earlier this month, Disney Consumer Products unveiled a new toy line based on the upcoming fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, On Stranger Tides. The 3-D movie will release in theaters on May 20.
The On Stranger Tides toy assortment, debuting in stores beginning this March, will include figures and play sets with a special black light from Jakks Pacific. The black light accessory that comes with all four-inch figures, four-inch Legend Pack figures and accessories, and the Queen Anne’s Revenge play set unveils a secret reveal that turns the figures into zombies. Jakks will also introduce new strategy-based board games based on the movie this fall.
The Lego Group will introduce nine play sets based on the movie, including a buildable version of Queen Anne’s Revenge and the Whitecap Bay play set, in which Jack Sparrow and the other pirates encounter mermaids.
Tags: Disney, Disney Consumer Products, Disney Interactive Studios, JAKKS Pacific, Lego, On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean, TT Games
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Disney Tangled: The Video Game is Now Available
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Disney Tangled: The Video Game—inspired by Tangled, the 3-D Disney movie that opens in theaters tomorrow—is now available at retailers nationwide. Click the postcard above to zoom in and read more info, and view sample screenshots below.
Tags: Disnet Interactive Studios, Disney, Disney Tangled: The Video Game, Tangled
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Photos: Fifth Wimpy Kid Book Launches with Parking Lot Party
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
On November 9, BookPeople book store, located in Austin, Tex., hosted the official launch party for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, the fifth installment in the book series. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid “Parking Lot Party” attracted more than 1,600 people, including the books’ author and illustrator Jeff Kinney and Wimpy Kid actors Zachary Gordon and Robert Capron.
Among the free family-friendly activities was a life-size version of Pressman Toy’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cheese Touch Board Game, co-created by Kinney. In the board game, kids laugh and talk as they face creative, social, and intellectual challenges. The player who successfully gets inside everyone else’s heads wins, but wrong answers could get players stuck with the moldy cheese that was found on the basketball court.
Tags: BookPeople, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cheese Touch Board Game, Jeff Kinney, Pressman Toy, The Ugly Truth
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Disney Store Times Square Opens With Grand Celebration
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Last week, Disney Store celebrated the grand opening of its Times Square location with appearances by celebrities, New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and more. The celebration kicked off with a colorful parade of Disney characters—including Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, and Buzz Lightyear—as they arrived by horse-drawn carriages and classic cars and traveled down a trail of Pixie dust.
Hosted by Robin Roberts from ABC’s Good Morning America, other celebrity appearances included Melissa Joan Hart of ABC Family’s Melissa & Joey; Anika Noni Rose, voice of Princess Tiana from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog; ESPN’s Jesse Palmer; actress Brooke Shields; Bloomberg; Walt Disney Co. President and CEO Robert Iger; and more.
The two-level, 20,000-plus square foot Disney Store in Times Square boasts a 2,250-square-foot digital billboard, a two-story Disney Princess castle with a “talking” Magic Mirror, colorful Lucite trees throughout the store that showcase custom Disney content, and a 350-square-foot Disney Store Theatre that features a 12-foot screen, playing Disney film clips, videos, and more. Kids can also build a customized Disney·Pixar Cars-branded Ridemarkerz car or purchase exclusive New York City-inspired Disney merchandise.
Tags: Disney Store, Times Square
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Photos: Happy Veterans Day!
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Happy Veterans Day! Here are some photos from the New York City 2010 Veterans Day Parade, which went right by The Toy Book‘s office:
Tags: parade, Veterans Day, Veterans Day Parade
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Giantmicrobes Introduces Food Poisoning Plush, More for the Holidays
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Ever wondered what food poisoning would look like in plush form? Well wonder no more, Giantmicrobes, Inc.—designers of collectible toys inspired by the microscopic world—is releasing new editions to its educational toy line.
The new products, like all Giantmicrobes products, includes the toy modeled on electron micrographs, enlarged a million times, and includes the micrograph image as well as information about the microbe it represents. The collection spans more than 100 microbes, including Common Cold, Brain Cells, Bed Bugs, and more.
On November 5, the company released Food Poisoning and Diarrhea, as well as Nibble the Bed Bug vinyl figure. Each vinyl figure comes with an animation flipbook and an action-pose sticker.
Tags: Bed Bugs, Christmas, Common Cold, Diarrhea, Food Poisoning, Giantmicrobes, Holiday, Marshmall the White Blood Cell, microbes, NIbble the Bed Bug, ornaments, Stem Cell
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Photos: Pop-Up Shops to Appear from So So Happy
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
In time for the fall and holiday season, So So Happy is launching pop-up shops at galleries and toy boutiques such as Munky King and Giant Robot. The mini-boutiques will include art books, apparel, bags, wallets, buttons, stickers, postcards, collector plush, toys by Toynami, and more. So So Happy is also working on a new line of character flash drives from Mimobot.
Additionally, collectible toy store Meltdown Comics is preparing for the grand opening of a 500-square-foot So So Happy shop on December 1.
For more information on So So Happy, visit www.sosohappyonline.com. Photos after the jump.
Tags: Giant Robot, Meltdown Comics, Mimobot, Munky King, pop-up shops, So So Happy, Toynami
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New Product: Sqwishlanders Collectible Characters
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Sqwishlanders are a rebranded version of the tiny, squishy characters that were first introduced as Pet Friends more than four years ago. The ¾-inch rubbery collectible characters are sold in vending machines and come with a unique code for online play at Sqwishland, www.sqwishland.com, a free, kid-friendly virtual world where the characters can be cared for and kids can play games and activities. Parents can also sign their kids up for a premium membership for access to more mini-games and activities.
Certain Sqwishlanders are plentiful, such as the black and white Sqwow who can be found nine out of 10 times in 6-pack and 12-pack capsules, and others are rare such as the brown and white Sqwow who can only be found four out of 100 times.
Tags: Sqwishland, sqwishlanders
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