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Doggie Doo Game for all the Family

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New Doggy Doo Game as Seen on TV
Put the educational toys to one side for a moment there’ll be plenty of time for the learning stuff later. For now, it’s all about having a laugh with the kids with the new Doggie Doo Game from John Adams. Since its first airplay on the Jonathan Ross’ TV chat show in September demand has been high and it has now been tipped as one of the top toys for Christmas. This is good news for parents looking for games at around £20.

Feed & Walk your Little Puppy
Children who are already familiar with the doggy walk will no doubt be used to the poop scoop procedure, but for those that are not, it’s a fun way to introduce them to it! At first glance, you may not be taken in by the thought of playing along with a game about poop and scoop but you’ll be missing out if you don’t give it a try. This is one for all the family to enjoy and one that doesn’t need batteries.

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How to Play Doggie Doo
Two to four players can join in the action game with the recommended age of 4 years and up. In addition to the star of the show, the cute little dachshund features include 1 bone, 1 die and sticker sheet, 4 scoops, 1 container of dog food and 1 treat mould. The idea of the game is to feed the dog a doggie treat pump the lead and if he poops on your turn “scoop the poop” the first to 3 wins the game. Playing time approx 15 minutes.

Baby Dolls, Barbie, Dolls Houses

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Toy Dolls

Dolls have been a traditional toy for children for generations and have never grown out of fashion. Today you’ll find variations of dolls made from an array of materials ranging from wood, porcelain, china, plastic etc which are fashioned on different themes and characters children love.

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Baby Alive

Top Toy Guide finds the latest and most popular fashion dolls, baby dolls, talking dolls and soft dolls suitable for all ages of a growing child. Little girls love copying mum and now they can their own baby doll to nurture and love. Popular baby dolls like “Baby Alive” and “Baby Annabell” have a range of clothes and all sorts of accessories to extend the level of pretend play further and keep them busy just like mum.

Playing with dolls allows a child’s imagination to grow and encourages them to enjoy nurturing role-play. Just like real babies, newly released dolls can cry tears, drink from a bottle, make realistic sounds, eat and even poop!

Baby walkers

The versatility of these new style interactive dolls and enjoying role-play situations with friends helps build a child’s social skills. Little girls can look forward to re-creating new experiences with the many types of small and large dolls available with accessories such as baby walkers, strollers, prams, Moses basket and outfits.

Other baby dolls include Baby born, Chou Chou, Tiny Tears and Mini Kiss. These baby dolls and accessories are suitable for ages 3 years upwards. Large life-sized toddler dolls like “Sally” has beautiful blond hair and comes with hair slide and comb and “Jolina” is a ballerina doll that is fully bendable and includes a ballet book with a music CD.

Mamas & Papas junior collection

When it comes to taking their baby doll out for a stroll Mamas & Papas junior collection includes true replica nursery prams. These prams are suitable for 4- 7-year-olds, 4- 8 years and 5-10-year-olds. These fully adjustable pushchairs look like the real thing and have swivel front wheels for easy steering and under seat basket for shopping.

Fashion Dolls

Fashion dolls are designed to be dressed up and are enjoyed by many age groups. They are usually modelled after adults or teenagers like Barbie and Ken, Bratz, Moxie Girlz and BFC Ink. Barbie has been every girl’s favourite through the generations and held the top spot in the fashion doll market for over fifty years. However, the launch of the Bratz range of fashion dolls back in 2001 became very popular and would soon give Barbie her first real taste of competition

Barbie

Today Barbie still remains an important part in the fashion doll industry and has expanded the range to include: outdoor Barbie toys such as the Barbie Beauty Secret Trike with Vanity case for ages 2 years and over, Barbie Three Musketeers Junior Laptop for 3 year olds upwards, in addition to Barbie B-Inspired Hand Held learning device and Barbie B-Smart for pre-school learning fun for ages 5 and over.

Dolls and Dolls Houses

Dolls and Dolls Houses make a great centre point for children to share experiences and learn to interact well with other children. They can bring a whole new world to life with the many different pieces of furniture, figures and dolls plus vehicles, stables, ponies etc for hours of endless play. There are modest sized houses to mansions where children can act out being grown-ups and let their imagination run free.

Action Toys, Games, Character figures

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Super Hero Figures

Superheroes and space action figures fighting against evil is the main focus and play pattern of these style toys. The good versus evil theme never seems to date and for generations, children have enjoyed battling it out with friends with pretend play.

Action Toys Games Marcel Super Hero Figures

The Top Toy Guide will help you find best action toys and coolest releases that are sure to be on the all-important Christmas wish list.

 

Transformers

The box office success of the Transformers action movies has seen the release of a line of transformer toys, comic books, games and video games placing them at the top of the most wanted toy this year. Transformable toys are captivating kid’s attention just like the film did and top toy stores like Hamleys is predicting The Transformers Bumblebee Helmet to fly off the shelves.

Transformer toys can be found to suit children from 4 years old and over that start with quick and easy conversion packs like the Movie Legend 4 Pack. For older children there is the ultimate “Devastator”; a large scale action figure with electronic lights and sounds.

Action Figures

Fans of the movie can collect their favourite characters all with super conversions, action features, moving armour and gears and enjoy recreating famous battle scenes with their friends.

Transformers are by no means the only action toy on the must-have list. A strong contender is the ever-popular “Star Wars” collection of toys and games that always do well and still a favourite of many. The Clone Wars Commander Helmet was a top toy last Christmas and looks set to do well again along with new Star Wars products in the LEGO Star Wars range.

LEGO Star Wars

 

LEGO Star Wars vehicles and action figures are a great construction range that encourages a child’s social skills to develop as they recreate adventures from the movies. Kids particularly boys can choose to be on the baddies side or stay with Luke Skywalker and co. for some exciting galaxy battles.

Ben 10

Ben 10 merchandise has really dominated the action toys department for some time and the variety of products seems endless. Every boy’s favourite hero so anything with Ben10 on it is a sure hit. There are lunch bags, bedding, skateboards, video games, and board games, costumes for role-playing, cameras, MP3 Players and so much more.

GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, Star Trek, Superman, Batman, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, LEGO Bionicle, etc all take on good versus evil theme and the huge success of the films released has seen the rise in demand for more action toys to be produced.

Military Action

G.I Joe’s line of military action figures produced by Hasbro originally began in the 1960s; this toy line represented four of the branches of the US Armed Forces. In the UK Action Man was released which was later renamed to Action Force. Today the extent of the products and array of merchandising from TV series and films like the “Rise of the Cobra” in 2009 see the increasing popularity of posters, t-shirts, video games, vehicles and play-sets.

Other fun action figures and characters include Horrid Henry, Power Rangers, Scooby-Doo, Dinosaur King, and Toy Story figures-Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody. The good news for kids this Christmas is the release of any new action movie means more action toys and figures being produced which means the list for top toys for Christmas just gets longer.

Bakugan

A new adventure series from Japan has become incredibly popular over here; Bakugan Battle Brawlers. This action adventure series inspired the launch of Bakugan a strategic game using metal cards and magnetic spring-loaded miniature figures. You can buy a Bakugan battle arena for play with up to three players, starter packs and Bakugan booster packs are also available. This action-packed toy is suitable for 5 years and over.

 

Gormiti

For younger children keen for some adventure there is Gormiti this new action figure line from Italy is for ages 3 years and over.  Little ones can have fun collecting and swapping from hundreds of characters and battle cards. Also available are Playsets for creating adventures such as Gormiti Island of Gorm Playset and Gormiti the Volcano Playset.

 

Figures & Playsets

Play is essential to a child’s healthy development of life skills. It teaches them important social and emotional needs in addition to building their self-esteem and confidence. The influence of TV and other multimedia distractions can lead to a less active child so the introduction of action toys from popular TV shows and movies means they can play more creatively with others.

Most importantly an active child is a healthy child and the good news is there are plenty of action figures, action toys and action games to choose from.

TRANSFORMERS 3 Figures and Role-play Toys

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Transformers Toys

 

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Optimus Prime Leader Figure

Optimus Prime reigns supreme as the leader of the Autobots. His one aim is to protect the universe from the evil Decepticons. His signature phrase “Transform and Rollout!” can be heard when leading his team into battle.

This large-scale action toy comes with realistic styling and detail including electronic sounds and lights. His eyes and chest light up and the latest Mech Alive technology reveals the internal gears and moving armour panels.

The robot to vehicle conversion to truck mode sees this mighty ally getting into gear with full-on racing sounds. Suitable toy for 5 years old upwards.

Bumblebee-Action Deluxe Figure

Motion-activated lights and sounds bring this popular character to life and ready for battle. This Bumblebee action figure is designed to convert to a yellow Camaro concept car.

Features include headlights and tail lights plus engine sounds when in vehicle mode and when in robot mode has light-up eyes, flip-down battle mask and a launching pulse missile.

Bumblebee Voice Mixer Helmet

This Transformers 3 movie toy allows kids’ imagination to really run wild as they become their favourite Bumblebee. This voice-activated helmet encourages active play and develops social skills as they interact with friends through role play.

Children will be able to speak through music just like Bumblebee.

Just like the Transformers Movie Hero kids can play out scenes to protect Earth from evil. The voice-mixer helmet has electronic features that can remix their voice with six different music styles. Also features realistic conversion sounds from car to robot and back again plus battle phrases and sound effects. This fully adjustable helmet will fit head sizes from ages 5 through to adult

Bumblebee Blaster

Not since the days of roleplay cowboys have toy guns been so popular this time though it’s a plasma cannon. With helmet in place, all that is needed is the Bumblebee arm blaster to defeat the Decepticons. Feel the power of the Transformers with helmet and now the Revenge of the Fallen Plasma Cannon. Features include electronic music, sounds, and lights for creating some cool action-packed movie scenes. Also converts to robot fist mode with smashing sounds.

 

Decepticons

Megatron Leader Figure
The sworn enemy of Optimus Prime and leader of the Decepticons is the bad guy Megatron. This ruthless leader is a large action figure that comes with much-improved features with sound and lights. Megatron is part of the new Leader series of Transformers 2 toys that has Mech Live technology.

Armed with a flip-out sword this powerful villain is out for revenge and ready to roll out. In robot mode, features include electronic speech and eyes and chest that light up. He converts to an impressive alien tank capable of some amazing firepower with cannon and blasting sounds.

Starscream- MV2 Voyager

The second in command to Megatron this highly intelligent Decepticon is sly and ruthless and would do what it takes to gain control. A fast flier and a spectacular air warrior comes with two firing missiles that a ready to be fired in jet mode. You can activate gears with a turn of Starscream’s head or convert to an F-22 Raptor aircraft in vehicle mode.

The Constructicon Devastator – Supreme Combiner
2009 is the year that sees the unleashing of the ultimate fighting machine the Constructicon Devastator. This super-sized robot towers over his allies and enemies alike and when his Vortex Grinder opens destruction is inevitable.

This Supreme Combiner is formed by six Construction vehicles: Longhaul, Scavenger, Rampage, Scrapper, Hightower and Mixmaster.

Boys will love this large action figure that even speaks and has lights and motion-activated sounds. Just like the Leader, Voyager and Deluxe series models this supreme figure has Mech Alive gearing.

Collecting new Transformers 2 figures and role-play toys enables boys to act out their favourite battle scenes from the movie and with today’s extensive range boys can build quite an army.

Revenge of the Fallen video game

For action-packed video, there is the Revenge of the Fallen video game. Rated as “T” for Teen. Now fans can have the chance to become an Autobot or Decepticon in the official game of the blockbuster film.

Choose a favourite character and once fully loaded drive, fight and shoot through intense levels. Every minute will count to win the day.

The Transformers 2 adventure game comes in the following formats: Nintendo Wii and DS, PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Hamley’s Top Toys for Christmas

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It seems it’s never too early for predicting the most likely best-selling toys for Christmas. As one of the largest and most famous toy shops in the world Hamley’s are not short of ideas on what will be hot products this year. Their love of toys brings a world of joy and wonder into children’s lives and never more so than at Christmas. So it should come as no surprise that it was back in June that they created Hamley’s Top Toy Lists for Christmas.

Hamleys Tops Toys for Christmas

In addition to Hamley’s pick of the best toys for 2011 this year they’ve put together a list of traditional toys and games plus top film and TV inspired toys. These include such as Dr Who Build Your Own Screwdriver, Cars 2 RC Lightning McQueen, Justin Bieber Singing doll and Dance Star Mickey.

 

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Traditional toys are expected to still hold favour with families and include the Chester Rocking Horse, Blow Football, Star Wars Millennium Falcon, Monopoly and Risk Nostalgia Editions. For a peek at some of the toys on Hamley’s “finest” there’s Dr Who Ride-in-Dalek, Air Swimmers, AppBlaster, Sylvanian Families Highlands Farm and the must-have Fijit Friend from Mattel.

Hamley’s Top Ten 2011 Christmas Toy List

Cars 2 Fully Loaded MC Missile (Mattel)
Transformers 3 Mech Tech Leader Asst (Hasbro)
FurReal Cookie (Hasbro)
Kidizoom Twist (VTech)
Rock on Elmo (Hasbro)
Ninjago Fire Temple (Lego)
Nerf Vortex Nitron (Hasbro)
Moshi Monsters Talking Plush (Vivid)
iBall3 (HTI)
Barbie Fashionistas (Mattel)