K'NEX Mario and the Golden Ticket Contest -- Win a Wii!

Free K’NEX Mario Kart Wii Figures Available

Receive Mario with the Golden Ticket and Win a Wii!

From Monday, June 13, through Friday, July 15, 2011, K’NEX Mario Kart Wii fans can register online to receive a free Mario™ or Luigi™ K’NEX figure. 300 figures will be distributed for each day of the five week promotion. Of the 10,000 figures, five lucky grand prize winners will receive a Mario figure plus a Golden Ticket that entitles them to a special prize package including: a Wii™  console (a $150+ value), the entire K’NEX Mario Kart Wii product line (18 toys featuring Mario, Luigi, Yoshi™, and their favorite karts and bikes on two popular Mario Kart Wii tracks -- a $632 value) and a trip to tour K’NEX headquarters in Hatfield, PA. For more information, complete rules and to enter the sweepstakes visit www.knex.com/mariogoldenticket.  No purchase necessary.

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Get your Tyke on a Bike

TykeRider.com, the new online retailer specializing in balance bikes, believes that balance is the best way for kids to learn how to ride. As experts in balance bikes, which are wildly popular in Europe and the UK, TykeRider.com is the best source for the best in balance bike brands such as:

• Early Rider (UK): Fashioned to look like a chopper, this bike is made from eco-friendly birch wood and has flame-etched details.
• LIKEaBIKE (Germany): This bike with “big kid attitude” has a lightweight aluminum frame, rear suspension, and adjustable steering.
• Wishbone Design 3-in-1 (New Zealand): This bike starts as a tricycle and transforms into a balance bike, ideal for kids as young as 1 years old.

"No Pedals, No Wheels, No Problem.": Blance bikes don’t have training wheels and pedals.  Instead, they encourage kids to balance—a pre-cursor to pedaling!—and glide with confidence and self-reliance, without the use of stabilizers.  Training wheels provide a false sense of security and slow the eventual transition to a regular bike.  Balance bikes are engineered to get children mobile via repetitive movement, reciprocal motion and following directions.

In addition, TykeRider.com carries a wide selection of helmets from Little Nutty. Combining safety with style, these helmets not only protect little noggins from falls, they also come in a range fun designs like peace signs, camouflage, polka dots, splatter paint, and more.
 


the Martha Stewart Show - Early Rider balance bikes and Little Nutty Helmets from Turnstyle Brands on Vimeo.

TykeRider.com can offer products, as well as offer expert advice on the benefits of balance bikes, the differences in current balance bikes in the marketplace, and why balance bikes are the most ideal bikes for kids to learn on.

To view a video on balance bikes or learn more about the benefits of the balance bike please visit www.TykeRider.com.


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Join the Green Lantern Corps with Mattel's New Line of Green Lantern Toys

About the Toys

Protect peace and maintain intergalactic order with Mattel’s new line of Green Lantern action figures, role play toys and accessories, available at major retailers nationwide. Just in time for the highly-anticipated summer superhero action film in theaters June 17, Mattel’s new Green Lantern toys allow kids to replicate the main hero’s ring-wielding vigor while immersing themselves in the Green Lantern universe.

• Transform into the Green Lantern hero by slipping on the movie-inspired Green Lantern Colossal Cannon Blaster, which lights up and emits blaster sounds when projectile discs are fired from the Gatling-style barrel!  Available now for SRP of $29.99.

• Become part of the Green Lantern Corps with the four-inch scale Green Lantern Battle Shifters^TM figures that feature popular Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan, Sinestro, Tomar-Re and Kilowog.  These figures include Power Slinger^TM accessories of malleable weapons or creature constructs that can be folded up and used again, creating unlimited play for young fans!  Available now for the SRP of $11.99

• Bring the major movie characters to life with the Green Lantern Movie Masters® figures, crafted with superior accuracy and unmatched detail using digital design files directly from the film.  Collect all eleven figures – each comes with a Collect & Connect piece to construct a giant figure of the villain Parallax.  Available now for the SRP of $14.99. 

• Simulate Green Lantern’s visually-transforming powers with the Green Lantern Ring Blast^TM Jet Figure & Vehicle.  One press of a button transforms the Battle Shifter^TM 2-in-1 vehicle from a swift turbo tank into a stealth fighter jet.  The Ring Blast^TM Jet features firing projectiles, lights, sounds and a Hal Jordan figure.  Available July 2011 for the SRP of $39.99.

My Take on the ToysThe toys were a ton of fun for any and all comic book fans. The toys were well constructed and reminded me much about the action figures that I grew up as a child. I also liked the fact that after seeing this movie that these toys were exact replicas of the characters in the movie. I mean, sometimes these toys are supposed to resemble the characters, but these toys truly do resemble the characters. 

If you are fans of the movie or just Green Lantern fans, these toys are perfect for your own collection!

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Amazing New Charlie & Lola Products Great!

Slightly Invisible

by Lauren Child

Featuring Charlie & Lola!

On-sale May 10, 2011 ~ picture book ~ ages 3-6 ~ $16.99

“There is a retro feel to the whole Charlie and Lola world; the subject is simple and always about the tiny things in life. Tiny things, that can seem very big when you are four or seven.” –Lauren Child

Charlie and his friend Marv have invented an invisibility potion, which they would prefer to use without Charlie’s little sister, Lola, bothering and interrupting. But when Lola enlists a bit of help it turns out that the strange and tricky creatures have met their match in one very resourceful, inventive little sister.

Charlie & Lola: The Absolutely Completely Complete Seasons One and Two on DVD.

Charlie and his friend Marv have invented an invisibility potion to help them find strange and tricky creatures, which they would prefer to do without Charlie’s little sister, Lola, bothering and interrupting. But when Lola enlists a bit of help from her invisible friend, Soren Lorensen - not to mention a tea set, a rabbit, a stroller, and of course one or three glasses of pink mil k- it turns out that the strange and tricky creatures have met their match in one very resourceful, inventive little sister.

Kids Preferred Charlie & Lola Play Set

The Talking Poseable Charlie & Lola Play Set is packaged in a reusable playscene and includes Charlie, standing 12 inches tall, and Lola, measuring 9.5 inches. Kids can bend the arms and legs into any pose for hours of fun. Each character speaks their signature opening line from the book, video and TV episode: "I have this little sister, Lola. She is small and very funny," says Charlie. Responds Lola, "I'm not small. I am BIG!".

My Take on the Products

My girls love Charlie and Lola and as a parent I like it as well. I tend to find many of the shows on PBS like Charlie and Lola to be both entertaining and educational. These products take the best of the show and bring them to life. The DVD is a great collection of the 1st two seasons. I know that my girls will be watching this for some time!

My youngest daughter was VERY excited about the dolls and loved that they talked to her. She is going through a doll phase right now, and with these new dolls we are watching her day in and out carrying them around the house and now even outside to her friends, showing off her new toys!

Finally, Slightly Invisible book This true to the show itself. What was unique about the book was the layout itself. The book used a unique format where words did not always flow in the order you would normally think. This was fun and my girls enjoyed the different style. For me, it took me a little time to get used to the format, but the storyline itself was a lot of fun and my girls have been asking me over and over to read the story. Even my youngest who does not read yet (she is 3) takes the book and now sits by herself and reads through the book in her own way. 

Overall all of these products were so much fun and if you are fans of Charlie and Lola, you and your kids will just love these!

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