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Article Archive: Collectibles
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10 Vintage Toys Worth More Than Your Nike shoes
Vintage toys have become highly sought-after collectibles, often surpassing the value of luxury items like Nike shoes. Here are ten notable examples: Original 1959 Barbie DollThe first Barbie doll, introduced in 1959, is a prized collectible. In mint condition, it can fetch up to $23,000. Texas Antique...
12/1/2024
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Mattel Creations Announces Latest Product Drop Featuring Reimagined Collectible Toy-Inspired Art
Mattel Creations, the company’s collaboration and direct-to-consumer platform, is further evolving its toys as art collection to include a Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) series from the super-charged Hot Wheels brand. Breaking into this new market allows Mattel to expand across this emerging art space and advance the collector offering starting with three unique NFTs from the Hot Wheels NFT Garage™ Series. The series features three vehicles from “The First Editions” vehicle collection and are available for auction...
7/1/2021
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Toys in the News 6/04/2021
are more_vert Vintage toys main draw at Happy Pappy’s Action Figure Extravaganza When Clifton Boggs' two children asked for toys, he didn't just buy some — he opened an entire store. “My kids wanted a toy shop,” he explained. The result is...
6/1/2021
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Collectible Toys
When TDmonthly Magazine interviewed retailers in August 2014 about their best-selling collectibles, we learned that licensed toys featuring Star Wars, Frozen, and Thomas the Tank Engine were all popular...
9/1/2014
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Top-5 Most-Wanted Action Figures
Action figures aren't huge sellers in specialty, according to half the retailers TDmonthly Magazine interviewed in August 2014. However, for some, these toys do generate sales...
9/1/2014
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Will American Kids Want Some Tsum-Tsum?
If there's one thing Disney's great at, it's integrating experience (whether digital or physical) with merchandise - and they just might have another hit on their hands...
9/1/2014
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 Top-5 Most-Wanted Collectibles
In an August 2013 survey, TDmonthly discovered that many specialty retailers just aren't that interested in selling collectible items...
9/1/2013
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Safari Ltd® Supports Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Holiday Toy Drive
PRESS RELEASESafari Ltd®, a worldwide distributor of quality, hand painted animal replicas, donated more than 2,000 of its toys to Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation’s annual Holiday Toy Drive last week.The Holiday Toy Drive benefits children spending their holidays in the hospital. On Christmas morning, patients will wake up to a...
12/1/2012
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Safari Ltd® Supports Neighborhood Toy Store Day
Safari Ltd®, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of award-winning replica collections, is providing free giveaway items throughout October to support local toy stores in honor of Neighborhood Toy Store Day...
10/1/2012
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Collectibles
When TDmonthly Magazine surveyed retailers about their best selling collectible toys in a Summer 2012 survey, their answers were varied...
9/1/2012
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 Diamond Announces Top Comic Book Product Sales For May 2012
The battle between Marvel Comics' top teams reaches the surface of the moon in the publisher's Avengers Vs. X-Men #4, the best-selling comic book to specialty retailers in May 2012, according to information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors...
6/1/2012
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 Q&A With Dax Logue, Creator of Sqwishland LLC
Entering or leaving a toy store can provide an unbearable temptation for children - there, at the entrance, several small machines dispense candy, stickers, and even small toys, all at kid-friendly prices...
2/1/2012
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 Realism and Altruism Fuel Safari Ltd.®
Safari Ltd. creates astonishing replicas of Nature’s most fascinating and beautiful creatures by hiring expert sculptors with acute observational powers...
2/1/2012
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 Collectibles
Collectibles are hot and getting hotter. See these recently added mass-market and specialty collectibles...
12/1/2011
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 Collectibles
See these recently added specialty and mass-market Collectibles...
10/1/2011
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 Top-7 Most-Wanted Action Figures
When TDmonthly Magazine interviewed retailers for a Summer 2011 survey about best-selling action figures, four out of the 14 said that figurines from Papo were their best-sellers...
9/1/2011
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Collectibles
When TDmonthly interviewed 14 retailers about their best-selling collectibles in Summer 2011 five named dolls from Alexander Doll Co. (Madame Alexander) as their best-sellers...
9/1/2011
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 Solving the Mystery of Composition Soldiers, Part II
The composition of Playwood’s soldiers consisted of triple zero wood flour from Wisconsin (very fine-ground, almost like talc), 20 Mule Team Borax, unbleached white flour (condemned by food inspectors who had marked the inedible flour with chicken blood), and water...
9/1/2011
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Dolls
When TDmonthly interviewed 14 retailers in early Summer 2011 about their best-selling doll, a whopping 71% of them named Corolle Dolls as their best-selling brand...
7/1/2011
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Collectibles
In July 2010, we spoke with 38 specialty retailers about their best-selling collectible toys and gifts. Their responses crowned BC USA’s Iwako novelty erasers an overwhelming favorite...
9/1/2010
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 My Best Sellers: Dancing Bear Toys Ltd.
At Dancing Bear Toys Ltd. in North Carolina’s Asheville and Hendersonville, the Evers family imagines that customers are guests in their living room...
7/1/2010
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 My Best Sellers: Key West Toy Factory
At Key West Toy Factory in Key West, Fla., shoppers are seeking fun vacation toys that are easy to take on a cruise ship and then on a plane back home...
6/1/2010
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 February's Toy Videos Are All Heart
While kids are scribbling their Valentine's cards, they can take a look at these new toys, which are sure to set off a spark of love...
2/1/2010
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 A Safari Into the Imagination
What do dragons, dinosaurs and pirates have in common? Along with dozens of other intricately detailed plastic figures from Safari Ltd., they’re the stars of collections designed to promote education and imagination...
2/1/2010
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 Retailer Spotlight: RoundTable Toys
After 10 years of success with selling toys in cyberspace, Owner David Davis of RoundTable Toys decided to branch out into the brick-and-mortar space, opening a retail store in Winterville, N.C., just last October...
2/1/2010
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 Innovations of 2010
Coins jump into bracelets, a dollhouse goes super modern, pacifiers take a new shape, and baby food benefits from a safe storage solution in stylish silicone...
1/1/2010
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Items for Tween Girls
These days, if it’s not a craft to be made, an accessory to be worn or a cute animal to be admired, it’s probably not at the top of tween girls’ want lists...
11/1/2009
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Novelties
If your specialty toy or gift store doesn’t carry Iwako erasers from BC Industries, you should take a second look at the sales of these tiny, collectible, puzzle erasers...
11/1/2009
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Collectibles
Based on a TDmonthly Magazine survey of 49 specialty retailers regarding sales of collectibles, the wide range of products catching customers’ acquisitive fancy goes from cute Japanese erasers from BC Industries to familiar collectors’ items including Steiff plush and Breyer horses...
9/1/2009
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 TDmonthly Goes Inside ... Sideshow Collectibles
Unlike other manufacturers who rely exclusively on laser scans and digital-wax outputs to create character likenesses, Sideshow Collectibles still hires artists to individually sculpt 90 percent of the faces and bodies for its action figures and collectibles...
8/1/2009
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 Reviving Doll Collecting Amid a Fading Generation
Old friends were reunited and new friends made over a mutual love for dolls during the 60th annual meeting of The United Federation of Doll Clubs and the Original Doll Artist Council of America convention held in Atlanta, Ga., the week of July 12...
8/1/2009
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Holiday Preview - Action Figures
Elves and crocodiles ready for battle could be the perfect addition to a child’s toy box this year. TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Action Figures also boasts other non-traditional collectible figurines, including tween characters tied to a virtual world, critters that place emphasis on diversity, and designer figurines that can spruce...
6/1/2009
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Holiday Preview - Collectibles
Decorative change banks, handmade ornaments and pins with personality give children (and adults!) lots to keep around for the long-term. See card collections, jewelry sets and more in TDmonthly’s Holiday Preview of Collectibles...
6/1/2009
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 13-Year-Old Shares Secrets of Snap Caps Success
M3 Girl Designs hit New York City for its first Toy Fair ever in February 2009, showing off Snap Caps, the interchangeable, magnetic bottlecap necklaces that have taken off in well over 400 stores nationwide since their introduction...
5/1/2009
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 My Best Sellers: Twirl Toystore & Playspace
Fun, impulse toys are staples at Twirl Toystore & Playspace in Taos, N.M. Following are the items Operations Manager Molly McMullin told TDmonthly Magazine are best sellers at her store...
4/1/2009
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 IDEX 2009: Dolls Draw Attention Despite Economy
Warm Florida weather greeted enthusiastic attendees as exhibitors displayed one of a kind dolls, play dolls, reborn babies, limited editions, and doll clothing and accessories alongside many celebrity artists at the 2009 Idex Premiere Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in Orlando...
3/1/2009
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 Munipals Puts Fay Graphic on Track
Incentive to get the wheels in motion for a line of wooden toy trains modeled after the New York subway came from a son’s question at the dinner table...
12/1/2008
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 Webkinz Speaks
At Toy Fair 2008, George Kacic, vice president of sales and marketing for Ganz, said he felt TDmonthly Magazine hadn’t covered his company’s point of view about the Webkinz shortage last year...
4/1/2008
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 Sports Action Figures Cast a Spell
Sports fanatics don’t just go out and wear their favorite team jerseys or add to their baseball card collection anymore. Sports action figures are becoming a popular way for fans to support their local teams on and off season, sources told PlayZak, and just as kids are with Pokémon, many have to collect them all...
9/1/2007
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 Webkinz: Boom, Bust or Both?
Now that the Webkinz boom has made the mainstream press, and rumors of a mass-market sellout are flying, specialty retailers who built the brand are telling TDmonthly Magazine they’re frustrated with shortages and angered by Ganz’s silence...
5/1/2007
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 My Best Sellers: All Things Fun!
Every day is full of adventure for Ed and Dina Evans, owners of West Berlin, N.J.'s All Things Fun, where action toys, games and comics are the focus...
5/1/2007
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 Trains Keep Hobbies Chugging
Models are out, electronics are in, and RC trains, planes and automobiles are keeping the hobby industry hobbling along, retailers told TDmonthly...
10/1/2006
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 Adults Grab Kids’ Toys
Adults are the biggest collectors "because they have the disposable income and come from a generation that’s very self-centered," .....
10/1/2006
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 Get Collectors Collecting Again
Competition for adults' diminishing disposable income has collectibles manufacturers scrambling for new sales strategies...
10/1/2006
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 TDmonthly's Top-10 Most-Wanted Mini-Toys
Manhattan Toy's Groovy Girl Minis are tied with Papo Knights as the best-selling teeny toy, each getting a top-selling nod from 10 of 45 specialty toy-store owners surveyed...
9/1/2006
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 Don’t Throw Out Those Baseball Cards
David Brown, president of Serious U.S.A. Inc., believes sports trading cards can still be profitable; he just thinks manufacturers “need to demand innovation to keep their product relevant.”...
9/1/2006
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 The World in a Pocket
Though not always small in price, tiny collectibles are big with little kids, a TDmonthly Magazine survey of 40 specialty retailers revealed...
12/1/2005
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 Guys Grab Dolls for the Holidays
Tonner, Integrity Toys and Mattel have the gals of the moment, and smart retailers have ordered extra Tyler Wentworths, Jason Wu-designed Fashion Royals and I Love Lucies for well-behaved adults this Christmas...
12/1/2005
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 Become Enchanted With Dervish Toys
After six years in development, the husband and wife founders of Dervish Toys, Charles Erdman and Tatiana Romanov, are finally ready to bring their old world fantasy to life...
9/1/2005
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 Collectible Trading Card Games Go Deck to Deck
Since Pokémon reached billion dollar success, soon followed by Yu-Gi-Oh!, every collectible card game publisher has been turning his or her eyes to anime licenses, looking for an equally winning hand...
4/1/2005
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Taking Heroes Home: Licensing trends
Licensed products currently account for over one third of the toy industry, and the market segment keeps growing. Superhero products are one of the larger players in this field, especially as more feature films continue to be based on comic books...
2/1/2005
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 Getting the Word Out: Advice from MouseShoppe
MouseShoppe is an Internet-based store that carries low-end licensed Disney mechandise, while its physical counterpart, CharmingShoppe, is a brick and mortar store that sells high-end Disney collectibles. Strategically located near Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix may have an edge on her competitors, but even this experienced retailer must advertise to draw sales...
1/1/2005
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Monogram International: Batman Begins to the Future
Monogram International is known for movie collectibles; everything from items based on animated tales to their newest licensing contract with Warner Brothers for the live action film “Batman Begins.”...
1/1/2005
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Collectibles: Gotta Get Another Set
The term collectibles has always referred to a broad category of products, with collectors on the hunt for everything from out of date, limited edition items to ubiquitous, must-have toys. This year, toy makers are rapidly developing precious new sets of collectible items and introducing older collectibles to an expanding...
1/1/2005
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Novelties: Simply Uncommon Delights
These fanciful, whimsical products take off this year in intriguing designs, shapes and styles. Whether the goal is to draw a silly reaction or merely light up someone’s day, modern novelties take on a range of ingenious forms. Take a look at the following one-of-a-kind samples of novelty inspirations...
1/1/2005
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 TDmonthly´s Top 10 Most Wanted Political Playthings
Get out to the polls and, while you’re at it, vote with your dollars for your favorite political toys. The presidential contest has been on everyone’s mind this year and will continue to generate interest as the election draws closer...
10/1/2004
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Magic Mini´s: Mini Doll Phenomenon
According to a report "What to Watch in 2004" by the NPD Group, “another area of strength in 2003 that will continue this year is the mini doll category.”...
9/1/2004
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Toys Inspired By the U.S. Troops
Dusty Trails Toys has come out with a set of action figures which remarkably commemorate the heroic efforts of America’s troops abroad...
8/1/2004
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Snoop Dogg Collectible
Among the hippest of stylish new collectibles is the Snoop Dogg Vinyl Figure: Series 1 (ages 3+) by Sota Toys...
8/1/2004
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NOVELTY & IMPULSE
Hog Wild Toys The Desk Top Punching Bag is a glutton for punishment. Simply lick and stick the aggressive rubber suction cup to any flat surface and you´re ready to thump, flick and pop Bop-Oh! The bounce-back spring keeps him coming back for more. ($7.99) Jumping Beans “Jumping...
8/1/2004
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Not Your Mother´s Barbie, Anymore
Barbie has remained a penultimate collectible for those who cherish each Barbie transformation. And the rest of the Adult Collectibles category is morphing, too, along generational and economic lines of the new century...
7/1/2004
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 What A Geek!
There is a new super hero action figure hitting the toy markets. He doesn’t have a cape, doesn’t carry a gun or a light saber, isn’t the subject of some popular show or cartoon, and he doesn’t transform into something...
7/1/2004
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Eclectic Collectibles
The field of popular collectibles has exploded thanks to auction websites...
7/1/2004
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Wheeling and Dealing
Among the hottest in new collectible toys, Hubz Thumb-Racerz (2 pack $2.99; 4-pack $5.99 to $6.99) by Uni Toys are in tune with the latest trends on the street...
7/1/2004
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COLLECTIBLES
Bennett Scopes Inc. The newest signature scope from Carolyn Bennett is called The Barry. The Barry is 9” tall and has an interchangeable chamber. It is elegantly made of brass and is operated by a two mirror system with a seven point star interior. This classic kaleidoscope is signed and...
7/1/2004
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Retro Revival
From Care Bears to He-Man, many of this year´s “new” toys were actually born two decades ago...
5/1/2004
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