Playthings Magazine Lists the Top Toys STILL AVAILABLE on Toy Store Shelves

With Cepia’s Zhu Zhu Pets, the 2009 holiday season’s must-have line of toy hamsters, hard to find, Playthings Magazine today issued a list of top toys gift givers can most often still find in toy stores.

Active & Outdoor Toys
Razor Spark Scooter (Razor USA)
Razor’s Spark Scooter reignites its scooter with the addition of a refillable spark cartridge to the ride-on toy.

Arts & Crafts
Crayola Crayon Maker (Crayola)
The Crayola Crayon Maker offers kids a lesson in recycling, allowing stubs of crayon ends to be melted down and re-purposed into new custom-color crayons.

Building Toys
Lego City Advent Calendar (Lego)
Lego offers a customizable twist on a holiday staple. Behind every one the Advent Calendar’s numbered doors are mini-figures or themed accessories that every three days form a mini playset.

Dolls
Moxie Girlz (MGA Entertainment)
MGA Entertainment’s new Moxie Girlz fashion dolls come in three themes designed to help girls express their individuality.

Educational Toys
Power House: Green Essentials Edition (Thames & Kosmos)
Green Essentials is an alternative energy-focused version of Thames & Kosmos’ bestselling Power House kit. Its experiments include building the power house, a greenhouse, a solar oven and a wind-driven power generator.

Games
Monopoly City (Hasbro)
Monopoly City ditches the game’s iconic houses and hotels for more than 80 three-dimensional structures, plus adds moves that let players raise rents through investment or options to sabotage other players using buildings that sink opponents’ property values.

Preschool
My Pal Scout/Violet (LeapFrog)
LeapFrog’s My Pal plush puppies offer a host of customizable content options via a USB connection with a goal of fostering preschool readiness.

Plush
Fuzz That Was (Mary Meyer)
Fuzz that Wuzz plush are cuddly companions made entirely from polyester fiber sourced from 100 percent recycled plastic bottles.

Vehicles
Air Hogs Switchblade (Spin Master)
Air Hogs Switchblade is an innovative radio-controlled flying toy that can hover like a helicopter then switch to airplane-like horizontal flight.

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Founded in 1903, Playthings Magazine (www.Playthings.com) is a monthly trade publication covering the children’s toy, game and related entertainment industries. Playthings is published by Reed Business Information, a leading business-to-business information provider and part of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) (NYSE: ENL).