The 2024 edition of The BIG Toy Book just dropped and features curated showcases highlighting more than 325 new toys, games, and adjacent products across 13 categories.
Our Construction showcase includes 21 new products that retailers and other members of the trade should be aware of this year, especially if they want to grab the attention of young builders. Check out a digital version of this curated showcase below and click here to read the full issue!
SPACE BASE AND ROCKET LAUNCHPAD
Welcome to the 1,422-piece space base. The admiral is in command, and the rocket ship is ready on the launchpad. The set comes with a tower crane, a spaceship, a launchpad, a truck, a planet scene, six minifigures, a robot, and two alien figures.
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POLAROID ONESTEP SX-70 CAMERA
This model of the iconic Polaroid OneStep SX-70 camera consists of 516 pieces. Re-create design features such as the viewfinder, Color Spectrum, and exposure compensation dial. Load one of three illustrated ‘photos’ from the brick-built Polaroid Time-Zero Land Film pack into the camera, then press the red button, and the photo will eject.
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CONNETIX 50 PIECE PASTEL TRANSPORT PACK
Kids can engage in STEAM learning by navigating magnetism, shapes, colors, and vehicles. The pack features a reversible transport base, two clear motion bases with rubber wheels, and a range of magnetic tiles in eight pastel colors.
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Available: Spring 2024
ERGGS RACING ALLEY
Kids use magnetic connections and four paperboard panels to build and customize their tracks. The set comes with 21 pieces, including a cannon launcher, a merge zone, a speed track, a ramper, square frames, edge frames, double ended clips, a comic, and more.
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Available: April 2024
KLUTZ LEGO GRAVITY DROP
Kids can assemble a 1.5-foot-tall, chipboard, gravity drop tower full of LEGO contraptions. Then, they can release the six wooden balls from the starting gate and watch them race through a maze full of twists and turns, sliding down ramps, flipping spinners, and whirling down a funnel, before they plonk into their destined buckets.
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Available: Fall 2024
GLOWING CRAFT SET
This set includes 20 glow-in-the-dark pieces and accessories, including three magnetic pieces. Kids can use the included Idea Booklet for inspiration to build different structures.
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Available: Spring 2024
TWINKLING GARDEN SET
This set comes with 27 pieces, including six magnetic pieces and hologram tiles, which create a twinkling effect. Kids can build various structures like flowers and more.
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Available: Spring 2024
CRAYOLA COLORS OF KINDNESS AND CRAYOLA PIP MAGNETIC TILES SETS
These colorful 24- and 40-piece sets feature a variety of magnetic tiles that are easy for little hands to connect and build endless unique structures, patterns, and shapes. Colors include Life is Gouda, Seas the Day, Bluetiful, and more.
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HYPERTILES
HyperTiles is a construction toy based on a mathematical shape called a hyperbolic paraboloid. The simple, versatile shapes can be linked together in an infinite number of combinations.
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TECTI
Construct more than 50 dynamic structures using interlocking, movable cubes that mimic tectonic movements. Kids can lock their creations in place with a keystone until they are ready to disassemble and rebuild.
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HERO: SOUND-SENSING ROBOT
Hero is a robot that can sense sound and is made with more than 100 pieces. The robot features three directional microphones that kids can use to direct Hero to dance, follow them around, and more.
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Available: Spring 2024
BIONIC ROBOTIC ARM
Kids can assemble nearly 300 pieces to create this robotic arm, which is controlled by two joysticks. The arm uses nylon cables to mimic tendons in the human arm.
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Available: Summer 2024
MAX DINO ADVENTURE DINO HUNT
Kids can build a helicopter, a truck, a motorcycle, two dinosaurs, a tree, and more with this 531-piece construction set.
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Available: Spring 2024
MAX DINO ADVENTURE T-REX ATTACK
Kids will construct a prehistoric world by building a dinosaur, a radar dish, and a truck with easy-to-follow instructions. MAX Bricks are compatible with leading brick brands and come in a storage egg.
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Available: Spring 2024
CLIXO CLASSROOM PACK
The Clixo Classroom Pack is a flexible, magnetic learning experience designed for educators to spark creativity and open-ended play with their students. Supporting individual or group play, the pack includes an educator guide and 30 activity cards that foster collaboration, boost creative confidence, and empower innovation. Its universal design allows for inclusive play, letting kids…
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GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
This 2,174-piece set features an intricate build of the bridge, water, and shoreline that is 34.5 inches long and 6.75 inches tall. It comes with a hardbound instruction book complete with images and facts on the history of the bridge so builders can learn about the subject they are re-creating.
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Available: Fall 2024
TECHNO TRAX – GALACTIC ADVENTURE
Kids can build a Space Shuttle coaster using more than 300 pieces to create drops, twists, and turns. The set includes a motorized chain that makes sound effects and a colorful instruction manual.
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MEGA SHOWCASE THE BEATLES “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BEATLES!”
Kidults can build a piece of rock ‘n roll history with this detail-rich 671-piece set celebrating the 60th anniversary of an iconic moment: The Beatles’ first U.S. performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. This set replicates the “Arrows” stage that was made for the broadcast and includes four 2-inch poseable micro-figures of the Fab Four…
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MEGA POKÉMON CENTER
Create the Pokémon Center with this 648-piece building set, which comes with four buildable Pokémon figures: Pikachu, Chansey, Eevee, and Togepi. Once the set is built, kids can turn a crank to see the characters move.
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PLIP KIT
The creative construction kit features more than 50 flexible arches, sticks, and X-shaped pieces that connect via ball-and-socket ends. Kids can create patterns, prisms, and sculptures by connecting the pieces. They can also pull the pieces apart to hear a satisfying popping sound.
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Available: Summer 2024
LEARN TO BUILD ROBOTS
This 275-piece kit has everything kids need to build five robot designs. They can also mix and match pieces to create their own.
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