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Product Showcase: Dinosaur toys

By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 7/28/2009 3:28:00 PM

This week’s Product Showcase features dinosaur-themed products from Briarpatch, Creative Toy Shop, Endless Games, ImagiPlay, Peaceable Kingdom Press, Safari and Wild Planet.

Prehistoric Play
The Dino Duel Card Game ($6.99), for two or more players ages 4 and up, aims to develop kids' strategic thinking and social skills through a series of head-to-head dinosaur duels in which players launch their attacks based on the strength of their dinosaur's value. After a series of battles, the player that takes the most hands wins the game. Includes 48 jumbo playing cards.
Briarpatch, Millburn, N.J.
www.briarpatch.com

Creative Toy Shop

Cardboard Creature
This Calafant Dinosaur ($6.99), for ages 3 and up, is part of a line of white cardboard craft toys that kids can decorate any way they wish and put together without glue or scissors, designed in Germany by cartoonist Boris Schimanski. Like all the small sets in the series (which includes numerous vehicles and a tiny house), the dinosaur comes with six markers, and is also available in a party pack of 10.
Creative Toyshop, Wallingford, Pa.
www.creativetoyshop.com

History Takes Flight
Endless Games’ foray into collectible figures spans the gamut from the ordinary and exotic animal figurines of today to prehistoric beasts of the distant past. Among the company’s Collect-A line ($1.99 to $5.99) are upwards of 20 dinosaurs, of which there are several designs more obscure than the rather run of the mill T-Rex. Pictured: Pteranodon.
Endless Games, South Amboy, N.J.
www.endlessgames.com

ImagiPlay

Stacking 'Saurus
The Alphabet Dinosaur ($34.99), for ages 3 and up, is an innovative puzzled crafted from plantation-grown rubberwood, an environmentally-friendly hardwood, and painted with child-safe paints. Part of the Coloriffic Earth puzzle line, this dinosaur stands 4.25 inches high and is 18.75 inches long. Other dino offerings from the company include the ColorMeUp Bronto and the PuzzlePlay Dinosaurs set.
ImagiPlay, Boulder, Colo.
www.imagiplay.com

Peaceable Kingdom Press

Jurassic Pack
Dinosaurs in a Box ($24.95), for ages 4 and up, is an all-inclusive box of fun that stands a foot high, geared to young dinosaur lovers. Inside, it's packed with a play scene backdrop and cutout dinosaur set as well as four stand-up dinosaurs, 80 reusable stickers and accessories. The set also comes with 10 stand-up dinosaur skeletons and 10 reusable sticker “skins.”
Peaceable Kingdom Press, Berkeley, Calif.
www.pkpress.com

Museum-quality Monsters
Safari teamed with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for a range of scaled dinosaurs replicas researched and authenticated by the museum’s own paleontologists. Scaled at either 1:20 or 1:40, the assortment features hand-painted, phthalate free figures, such as the 11.75-inch by 2.5-inch Tylosaurus shown here. Each comes with an educational hang tag in five languages.
Safari Ltd., Miami Gardens, Fla.
www.safariltd.com

Wild Planet

Tiny T-Rex
The Dino Powerflex Lab ($34.99), part of the Skeleflex building system for ages 6 and up, lets kids build their own creature and then bring it to life. Kids can mount the dino to its base and then use the controller to move and animate it with realistic motions, either quick or slow. Includes more than 30 bone pieces plus flexible joints. It's also compatible with other models in the system.
Wild Planet, San Francisco
www.wildplanet.com

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