BabyTV’s Musical NightLight app is availble on Apple’s App Store for $2.99. Designed for toddlers, this new new mobile application plays soothing music with cute animations for a predetermined time set by the user. It also features sound detection technology that reactivates the music if the baby hasn’t fallen asleep or wakes up when the music ends.
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Erector released four buildable models inspired by Microsoft’s billion-dollar franchise, Gears of War. Available exclusively at Toys ‘R’ Us and toysrus.com, the sets include: C.O.G Armadillo; C.O.G King Raven; C.O.G Centaur Tank; and Locusts vs Delta Squad Battle Set. Ranging in price from $24.99 to $59.99, for ages 8+, the models feature 80 to 300 pieces and all models will include character figures, building instructions, stickers and tools.
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Available at Amazon.com
Designed and made by First Act Discovery, the new WrapStar Microphone is the first mic you can bend and twist. It offers three feet of bendability so everyone can get wrapped up in the fun. The Mic is offered in multiple colors, each with unique silly sound effects for endless creative possibilities. Available for $19.99, the WrapStar Mic has a soft, moldable patent-pending design for the perfect amount of flexibility.
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Amazon announced its 2012 Holiday Toy List, where customers can discover hundreds of this year’s most popular and top rated toys, books, video games, electronics, movies, sporting goods and more. The Holiday Toy List features hundreds of popular items that will appeal to everyone from infants to teenagers. As stated by the company, most of the items on the Holiday Toy List are eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping or FREE Two-Day Shipping with Amazon Prime. The Holiday Toy List features leading brands like Fisher-Price, LEGO, LeapFrog, Mattel and many more.
“The Amazon Holiday Toy List page is a one stop destination for easily discovering hot toys and purchasing them at great prices, all from the comfort of home,” says John Alteio, director of Toys & Games for Amazon.com. “This year, we are making shopping for toys on Amazon even better by offering popular items at very low prices, through our Lightning Deals.”
BestToysGuide.com has worked hard throughout the year to compile their comprehensive list featuring 30 of the most sought-after toys that boys and girls of all ages are hoping to see under the tree this year. The list will help ensure that the toys that parents will be snatching off the shelves this season match the letters kids everywhere are scribbling to Santa.
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Hallmark will bring exclusive and limited Keepsake Ornaments to Comic-Con International in San Diego July 11-15, 2012. The ornaments include: (1) 4-LOM and Zuckuss: This two-pack features the criminal droid 4-LOM and Gand tracking expert Zuckuss from “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back™.” Created exclusively for event sales, 4-LOM and Zuckuss are the last bounty hunters depicted in the film to become Keepsake Ornaments. Limited run of 1,000 sets ($35 per set).
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Released by Putumayo Kids in February this year, the Instrumental Dreamland is a collection of soothing tunes to help parents ease their children to sleep. Mentioned as the first all-instrumental album from the label, the Dreamland features exceptional renditions of such classics as “Brahms’ Lullaby,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “What a Wonderful World.” Putumayo scoured the world for music that incorporates relaxing instruments such as the harp, piano, acoustic guitar and kora. Artists include Malian griot and kora master, Balla Tounkara, Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, Brazilian guitarist, Reginaldo Frazatto, Jr., Irish multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan and American pianist Michael Allen Harrison.
