Last year I let you know that the stick had been inducted into the Toy Hall Of Fame, this year his friend the ball is joining him. I can’t think of two more deserving toys than stick and ball. Put them together and you’ve got a dynamic duo that’s hard to beat!

The other Toy Hall Of Fame inductees this year included the Big Wheel, and the Game Boy, both are also very deserving toys, but nothing can top the ball.
The ball is one of the most versatile toys ever invented, there are tons of games you can play with that …read more

Last Spring when the concept of the new Dora Links doll came out, there was quite a bit of debate about whether Dora growing up was a good thing, or a bad thing. The wait is over the new Dora Links doll premiered yesterday at major retailers. Check out Dora’s new look.
She even has a new group of friends, the Explorer Girls help Dora solve mysteries online, with the help of your child. The new Dora is geared to Dora fans who have outgrown the original doll. She has a virtual online world your child can access by plugging Dora …read more

Here’s a first look at what the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toys will look like, including the Constructicons. I can guarantee my son will be all over these new Transformer toys. He’s a huge Transformers fan, and I have to admit I loved the first movie. I can’t wait until the second one comes out this summer.

This video is from Transformers Inc., and is from the 2009 New York Toy Fair that has been going on all week.

I wanted to wish all of you Play Library readers a Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a wonderful New Year’s celebration last night. My whole family is still recuperating from our Christmas trip, so we were all pretty much half dead, but we celebrated anyway and had a great time.
One of my goals for 2008 is to improve the content on my blogs. I want to make sure that I am covering information that you are interested in and looking for. In order to make Play Library one of the best places to come to for …read more

Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment, producers of the Bratz Dolls, was recently interviewed on ABC’s Nightline, with some rebuttal bits by Chuck Scothon, a senior VP at Mattel. He shares his thoughts on the Bratz vs. Barbie battle, and his plans to win it.
Follow this post to the end to see the YouTube posting of the ABC interview (and then please vote in our Barbie or Bratz? poll in the sidebar on the right!). Here are a few interesting bits that I gleaned from it all:
Larian admits that he first thought the dolls looked like aliens, but now …read more