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TODAY'S FEATURES
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TDmonthly Goes Inside: Toy Castle
Our video crew highlights 24 best sellers from Toy Castle's sales floor. » Watch Videos
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Pawparazzi Pets Take Center Stage
A series of trend-conscious plush pals hooks kids with an interactive website and packaging. » A closer look at Noodle Head
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Top-5 Most-Wanted Die-Cast
TD’s top five September specialty best sellers include Hot Wheels, Matchbox and school buses. » See the top five
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California Gift Show Video Highlights
TD’s video crew captures luxurious kittens and interactive dogs at the 2010 California Gift Show. » Watch Videos
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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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Since holiday ordering may be more difficult than ever this year, TDmonthly Magazine has boosted its video coverage of new and best-selling toys, so you can see them up close and in action... 
The Toy Industry Association and American International Toy Fair were honored at Trade Show Executive Magazine's "Gold 100" awards recognizing the largest U.S. trade shows... 
TDmonthly Magazine offers lots of unique, free ways for specialty retailers to help their customers learn more about what makes their toys an incredible value. This month marks TDmonthly's first-ever in-house VIDEO BLITZ... |
TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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Natural, eco-friendly dolls and teethers are the subjects of the following baby product videos, which also feature "Anew" design for post-maternal wraps and a soft play camera that's snappy... 
Are your tween customers into arts, crafts and fun accessories? There's plenty for them to explore in the following kits by Fashion Angels, Artterro, Creativity for Kids and Corps of Re-Discovery... 
Now's the time to order, so this month TDmonthly has a new batch of toy videos to help you make decisions for fourth quarter.... |
TDMONTHLY SHOP TALK |
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A desire to work together as a family first led Diane and Bill Sartain to investigate opening a toy store, and the opportunity to help parents understand the value of play clinched the deal in 1988.... 
At The Tutoring Toy in Salt Lake City, Utah, Owners Diane and Bill Sartain believe that “play is the work of children.... 
A business plan is a living document, meant to be revised periodically. It is your one-, three- and five-year plan, which, at any given time, should reflect your plans for the next few years.... 
Shortly after we started our Awesome Bucks reward program, a little boy came into the store. He was so small he couldn’t see over the counter... |
TDMONTHLY TRADE SHOW COVERAGE |
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TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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See all the new toys we've uploaded in the last month to make your ordering easier... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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Based on a TDmonthly Magazine survey of 49 specialty retailers regarding sales of collectibles, the wide range of products catching customers’ acquisitive fancy goes from cute Japanese erasers from BC Industries to familiar collectors’ items including Steiff plush and Breyer horses.... 
In July 2009, TDmonthly Magazine interviewed 49 specialty retailers around the country about their sales in die-cast vehicles.... |
TDMONTHLY SPECIALTY TOYS REPORT |
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TDMONTHLY TOY REVIEWS |
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TDmonthly Magazine’s Roundtable participants recently adopted new pets and created an eco-system with Wild Creations’ Classic Water Garden Starter Kit Eco-Aquarium.... 
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert took a quick trip around the world to sample different ethnic styles of music and laughed at hilarious lyrics about family, bad days and rhyming in Lanny Sherwin’s latest.... 
With this batch of children’s titles, TDmonthly Magazine’s Book Expert got a thorough introduction to the art of origami and learned some fascinating facts about obscure animals. See how she liked them below.... |
TDMONTHLY CHARITABLE KID CONTEST |
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TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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It’s no surprise that the powerful tween market is ruling choices in kids’ music, too. As of Aug. 31, the top-10 best-selling children’s albums on Amazon.com included the tween-targeted “Kidz Bop 16,” featuring pop tunes such as Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”... 
The news that Disney was acquiring Marvel hit the entertainment industry like a thunderbolt. Yes, there had been plenty of rumors about a large Disney acquisition, but the betting by insiders had been on Electronic Arts... |
TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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The ABC Kids Expo is huge — and growing, with another 50 confirmed exhibitors during just two weeks of August, according to a Twitter post — so TDmonthly Magazine's video crew will be hitting the trade show floor... 
