Kangaroo Manufacturing to Debut Jurassic World, How to Train Your Dragon Pool Floats at Toy Fair

Kangaroo Manufacturing locked a deal with Universal Brand Development to bring characters from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World into swimming pools. Set to debut at Toy Fair New York, five new licensed pool floats aimed at kids ages eight and up will make a splash under Kangaroo’s Coconut Float banner.

From How to Train Your Dragon, the Deluxe Night Fury and Deluxe Light Fury floats each measure 84 inches from nose to tail. The Dragon Glitter Ring is a classic, 32-inch diameter ring float emblazoned with characters from the final chapter in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

From Jurassic World, the Blue Raptor pool float and Indoraptor pool float each measure 60 inches by 39 inches. Coconut Float offered a massive, 70-inch Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Tyrannosaurus Rex float last year.

The new floats can be seen in booth No. 1D117 at the Javits Center from Feb. 16-19.

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James Zahn, AKA The Rock Father, is Editor-in-Chief of The Toy Book, a Senior Editor at The Toy Insider and The Pop Insider, and Editor of The Toy Report, The Toy Book‘s weekly industry newsletter. As a pop culture and toy industry expert, Zahn has appeared as a panelist and guest at events including Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) Wizard World Chicago, and the ASTRA Marketplace & Academy. Zahn has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment, retail, and publishing industries, and is frequently called upon to offer expert commentary for publications such as Forbes, Marketwatch, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, the Washington Post, and more. James has appeared on History Channel’s Modern Marvels, was interviewed by Larry King and Anderson Cooper, and has been seen on Yahoo! Finance, CNN, CNBC, FOX Business, NBC, ABC, CBS, WGN, The CW, and more. Zahn joined the Adventure Media & Events family in 2016, initially serving as a member of the Parent Advisory Board after penning articles for the Netflix Stream Team, Fandango Family, PBS KIDS, Sprout Parents (now Universal Kids), PopSugar, and Chicago Parent. He eventually joined the company full time as a Senior Editor and moved up the ranks to Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief.