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PlayMonster Toy Fair 2019 Preview
New York Toy Fair is a-comin, so to get us excited for new games I’ve asked PlayMonster to share what’s new… and there’s a lot! They’re expanding their strategy game line (so Stratego isn’t alone),...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1: Less Gross, Less Dirty
The 116th New York Toy Fair is over and it was a great one! I got my picture taken with Cookie Monster, I grabbed a cup of coffee with LEGO’s Emmet, I saw MY game in the showroom at Hasbro, my flight...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 2: Survival and Adventure
Read 2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1: Less Gross and Dirty. Survival/Adventure Games with a “Story” I guess it doesn’t come as much surprise that adventure was a hot theme this year. It’s kind of a...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 3: Speed and Observation
You can read 2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1 Less Gross and Dirty and Part 2 Survival and Adventure, Speed and Observation Games This year I felt it interesting that there were lots of speed games in which...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 4: Shelf Laughs and Eye-Catching Licenses
You can read 2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1 Less Gross and Dirty , Part 2 Survival and Adventure, and Part 3 Speed and Observation. Continuing Trend: Shelf Laughs Eye catching names and packages that...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 5: Extensions and Good Games Never Die
You can read 2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1 Less Gross and Dirty , Part 2 Survival and Adventure, Part 3 Speed and Observation, and Part 4 Shelf Laughs and Eye-Catching Licenses. Line Extensions...
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2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 6: Micro Trends and New Players
You can read 2019 Toy Fair Trends Part 1 Less Gross and Dirty , Part 2 Survival and Adventure, Part 3 Speed and Observation, and Part 4 Shelf Laughs and Eye-Catching Licenses, Part 5: Extensions and...
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2020 Toy Fair Trends: Deduction
It’s time to start my series of 2020 Toy Fair Trends articles! Do you want to be a master sleuth, thief, or detective? Do you love mysteries? Is deduction your jam? Then this is your year! There’s so...
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2020 Toy Fair Trends: Crazy Drawing Games
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a ton of new drawing games released at once, and this year there were a bunch. Granted, these aren’t drawing games that require a lot of skill — quite the opposite...
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2020 Toy Fair Trends: 80s and 90s
This is an ongoing trend — and I’m sure at some point we will be done reliving the 80s and 90s, but that is not this year! We forge ahead with awesome licenses like Hocus Pocus and relaunched classics...
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2020 Toy Fair Trends: Online Themed Adult Party Games
For a while there we saw just dirty adult party game upon dirty adult party game, but now we’re seeing lots of online themed adult party games. Some of these games have a license on them like Buzzfeed...
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2020 Toy Fair Trends: More Light Strategy
We all know the line between mass, specialty, and hobby is continuing to blur – and again that’s evident with more companies moving into the light strategy space – or if they were there, moving a bit...
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