Toys that surprised me [Toy Safari] 19:40 23/02/2010, Stephen Totilo, original toy safari, top, Toy Fair 2010, Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide

Toys that surprised me [Toy Safari] 19:40 23/02/2010, Stephen Totilo, original toy safari, top, Toy Fair 2010, Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide
Game tends to take charge of things. We are casting movie video games, video games infesting Facebook. Toy Fair in 2010, he expected to see games and influence infect toys. I did. But I have seen so many other delicious things.

See, you go to a Toy Fair in downtown New York City cavernous Jacob Javits, where toy companies big and small are showing off their next hot thing, and you expect to see sculptures LEGO, perhaps promoting a upcoming sequel to a famous movie.



You get to see the next Atlantis Lego set, the set of final Bionicle and one of the first Lego game board.


In other places you have your people making purple sand. People are about shilling for the next Rubik's Slide, an electronic toy vaguely related to the Rubik's cube that you hold with both hands and exchanging pieces with plastic sheeting to align square. Trust me - or see the impressions of our friends "- R. Cube distantly related.

Perhaps an electronic Rubik's toy is a sign of flow of the game in the world of toys. Perhaps all of Halo toys and toys saw Prince of Persia also. I think I know what spurred many manufacturers in the row of booths displaying the electric guitar toy instruments. But walking toward the area of Gund, and you are in an area free of the influence of video games. All you can see are the bears.

Or a walk in the right and wrong floor escalators Toy Fair and see a wall of the dresses of girls' ballerina ...



A perfect accompaniment to a haul of toy guns.



The great trade E3 Gaming Show used to have a basement space called Kentia Hall, where the gorillas from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are never displayed, but people with ridicule and perhaps only bright ideas are born in their dreams and thrusts programming code, meeting.

Toy Fair has its share of Kentia, that really is the best material. You can have your stash of Pokemon stuffed animals in the Pokemon booth, located under a giant inflatable Pikachu.

My head is turned by the people of Toys Skunkle do something crazy uncle destructive wood of several blocks of game:


Who but a cold heart not to encourage the good lady on the other side of this spectacle of Mattells and Legos (Hasbro was in a completely separate building!) That wanted to tell me all about Pupppies Pancake, which are dogs stuffed with batteries pancake for the body?

Down a few corridors Toy Fair, is people selling basic food toy stores: Games of paper airplanes, vehicles with three wheels, and small houses can set up shop in the family room for the child who wants to get away from everyone, away from the house. You have people selling purple sand, which apparently is an old idea.

DC Comics has a Joker statue to sell $ 300. People have some Razor scooters and small cars a girl over me in. It's almost common, I have learned to create products that re-invent how people play ball, which usually involves a new way to paddle connected to nylon and / or velcro.


People who make the iPong presented at the Toy Fair, the introduction of people like me the whole field of devices that you will automatically ping-pong balls. (Do not know if iPong is the only one seen as a kind of Xbox 360 Elite).

There are, of course, toys that are hard to come by, but of interest to be displayed, like this, which is explained with the help of an impressive stack of paper.


Video games can have their spores to teach a version of evolution. Toy Fair 2010 had Evolvems, "the transformation of the evolution stuffed. Watch this video and learn something, I promise:


Is there a trend at Toy Fair 2010, a trend that is not the people who make dreadlocks inflatables or people who make marshmallow guns? (Nor was it a trend, actually, because each is made by a single speaker, I think).

Well, maybe it was a trend, or at least my favorite concept of the series: The toys from the trash. I found two companies, including many who were presumed ecological (hey, that's the trend!), Which showed the toys that have been improved with the garbage. Near the Lego booth, which was the Uberstix people whose related toys are designed to connect to cups and bottles and other things that could make boats float or drift planes in the sky.



Even cooler was Makedo, a company that sells the joints and bolts and other connectors and gives you tips on how to use them to bolt some cardboard boxes and wind, along with a robot or a house or a dog. (Click on the thumbnails to see larger.)


Perhaps this is the kind of toys that work well in the markets, not unlike all the toys I saw on TV when I was a child who seemed to enjoy himself more on ads than they were when I played with them. It seems like a noble effort, at least, which I guess is the selling point.

Toys garbage ... Why not?

I can inform you that there are many fun things at this Toy Fair 2010. Games have their place in the show, but has not been taken in the designs of most of what I saw.

Moreover, how could compete with games such as toys, possibly the best video I've ridden in my years as a journalist?


Oh, and let's listen for fun mirrors.



That's what I'm going to leave with. My expedition toy is complete.