Page 18 - Toy & Hobbby Retailer Magazine Nov-Dec 2018

CATEGORY ROUND-UP
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D STEAMADVENTURES A.R.I.A’S Adventures is our latest AR/VR STEAM educational product which received a nomination at the 2018 Nuremberg Toy Fair.
This interactive set is the ultimate in augmented and virtual reality educational products, containing three different games in one box.
The set includes; 100 animal VR flash cards, each including 10 fun facts about the animals
as well as their sounds; three dimensional colouring in, where you can colour directly on paper and watch your animal come to life on the screen in front of you; and, a VR animal park where you can explore the landscape as you look for animals with Aria through a VR headset.
Aria allows kids to hear the animals roar, listen to fun facts about them, hear the animal’s names, take a photo of the animal and even take a selfie, all in 3D!
Enquiries: Theatrix
T: 02 9337 3565
E: magic@theatrix.com.au
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Build a Bot Suction Dinosaur/ Dragon is an exciting new two-in-one character that gives you the ability to mix and match suction accessories to create multiple characters. Follow the instructions to assemble your character, personalise with stickers then switch it on and watch it walk!
If dragons aren’t your style you can create your own magical unicorn! Build a Bot Unicorn
is easy to make. Follow the instructions to assemble your character, personalise with stickers, then clap your hands and your unicorn will move and make sounds! Build a Bot Unicorn will even neigh for you!
Create your own Scatter Ants! Follow the instructions to assemble your character, decorate with cute stickers then switch it on and watch how the motor makes your bugs’ legs crawl
and wings flap! All Build a Bot characters are suitable for ages four and up.
Enquiries: Colorific
T: 1800 801 545
E: info@colorific.com.au
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Kids become their own super heroes by building and customising their high-tech
hero gear and unique identity with littleBits’ Avengers Hero Inventor Kit. With their favourite Marvel Avengers like Iron Man, Black Panther, Shuri, Ant-Man and the Wasp, kids enter super hero training in the app, control their gear with their smart device, give gear new abilities with easy block coding, and use their creativity and STEAM skills to customise their own hero identity and gear to match.
Creative kids build and customise a planetary rover using littleBits’ Space Rover Inventor
Kit, then transform it by adding out-of-this- world capabilities! Over 30 activities are available in the free inventor app, to guide kids through building and controlling space vehicle
inventions – such as a space rock collector or an alien life detector – learning STEAM skills along the way while drawing inspiration from real space pioneers.
Enquiries: LittleBits
W: www.littlebits.com
E: press@littleBits.com
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Gumtree Buddies - Nesting Blocks is a classic, ‘unplugged’ developmental toy that includes
six durable nesting and stacking blocks. Combining the beautifully illustrated Gumtree Buddies characters with a range of STEM learning concepts – such as numbers and counting, shape and colour recognition, size and spatial relationships, cause and effect and hand- eye coordination – each of the blocks is printed with a different image on each of five sides and encourages open-ended play. The blocks explore the many ‘ways of doing’ and opens up options for experimentation. For example how high
can you stack the boxes? What happens when you stack them in reverse order? Which is the biggest block? Can you put the blocks in size order? Stack them up inside each other? And
as an added bonus – when assembled in order
– little ones discover they have also completed
a beautiful picture puzzle with all the gumtree buddies hanging out in a gum tree.
Enquiries: Tiger Tribe
T: 03 9809 4897
E: sales@tigertribe.com.au
18 TOY & HOBBY RETAILER NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018