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TODAY'S FEATURES
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Figpickels Toy Emporium's Best Sellers
The retailer offers picks for September’s top-selling items. » What's selling well
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Top-5 Most-Wanted Action Figures
Licensed heroes and classic knights round out TD’s September list of top-selling action figures. » See the top five
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Spotlight: Figpickels Toy Emporium
Successful Idaho store illustrates what practices add up to big business. » See what these practices are
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Designing and Submitting Toy Inventions
A toy inventor explains selling the right invention at the right time. » Three steps
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TDMONTHLY MUST READS |
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TOY FAIR 2006 PREVIEW |
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Seach by category to find some of the newest products that will make their debut at the 2006 Toy Fair.... 
TDmonthly has compiled 10 useful tips to help retailers make the most of their visit to this year's Toy Fair.... 
TDmonthly suggests tips to manufacturers on how to make the most of their 2006 Toy Fair visit.... 
Search all you want. You won't find these toys anywhere near the Toy Fair.... |
TDMONTHLY HOT TOPIC |
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Where are the ads? Go online.... 
TDmonthly Magazine spoke with experts on the manufacturing and retail side to see what blips appeared on the holiday radar this year.... |
TDMONTHLY TOP-10 MOST-WANTED LISTS |
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These are a few toys that didn't make TDmonthly's 2005 Top-10 lists but which retailers picked as their favorite things in 2005.... 
This holiday season, TDmonthly spoke with numerous retailers to find out what toys were in demand.... 
This month, TDmonthly Magazine contacted 46 retailers to find their best-selling toy-themed dinnerware.... |
BOOKS |
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TDmonthly Magazine talked to more than 30 experts on children’s literature and found that the art of picture books is alive, well and selling better than ever.... 
Magic and information: That’s what tweens want, retailers told TDmonthly Magazine.... 
There are lots of new books for tweens that follow mainstream tween book trends that may not yet have found their way into bookstores.... |
TDMONTHLY TOY VIDEOS |
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HALLOWEEN MERCHANDISE |
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Halloween costume top sellers have been film-linked since the “Wizard of Oz” debuted in 1939.... 
Halloween 2006 falls on a Tuesday, which suggests that it’ll be more of a children’s celebration than an all-night grown-up kids’ fest.... |
VIDEOS & DVDS |
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Today’s videos and DVDs target specific parts of the brain, encouraging specific reactions to their lessons.... |
TDMONTHLY POPULAR STORIES |
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Are there any new collectible card games on the horizon likely to sell as well as Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh?... 
Kids can bling their ring — for cheap.... 
According to the number of people served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, approximately 7 million children have special needs, representing more than $3.5 billion each year in toy purchases.... |
TDMONTHLY MANUFACTURER'S CORNER |
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TDMONTHLY NEW TOYS |
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TDmonthly Staff has discovered a few amazing toys that deserve special mention.... |
TDMONTHLY MOM´S PERSPECTIVE |
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Five homeschooling families in Western North Carolina evaluated four new toys for TDmonthly Magazine.... 
Five homeschooling families evaluated four different toys. Below are their numerical ratings, based on a scale of 1 to 10, with "10" being the best and "1" the worst.... |
RETAILING TIPS |
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Implementing the right payment processing solution is vital to maximize your profits in the competitive toy industry.... |
RETAILER SPOTLIGHT |
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Sharon DiMinico is the CEO and founder of Learning Express, the largest specialty toy retailer in the country.... |
TDMONTHLY COOL COMPANY |
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TDMONTHLY TOY BUZZ |
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Stuart Scheinman, president of Animaland, allows potential business owners the opportunity to get into the market by creating a portable, animal-stuffing kiosk that makes the business more accessible.... |
TDMONTHLY BRASS RING |
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TDMONTHLY UPCOMING ISSUES |
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Many predict that scrapbooking and papercrafts will rule the 65th Annual Craft & Hobby Association Convention and Trade Show, controling half the floor space of the Las Vegas Convention Center Jan. 30 through Feb. 2.... 
All that glitters is not gold; these days it’s more likely to be LED.... 
The popularity of the one-digit Sudoku electronic puzzles, developed from the forerunning puzzles that appear in newspapers, is just beginning to grow in the United States.... 
