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Toy Fair 2015 – Day 2


Photo-A-Day #3601

Today at Toy Fair I was running from appointment to appointment all over the main show floor once again. I was up pretty early because I had fallen asleep super early last night. I made my way over to the Javitis Center and started my day with a tour of the Just Play toys which included many Disney, Care Bears and Snoopy toys. I had to cut that appointment short because it was time for the Mattel blogger preview on the top floor of the Javits.

With Mattel I was able to see new toys for Blaze and the Monster Machines, Hot Wheels, Imaginext, Batman and so many more properties. There are some fun toys coming for all of those lines but Hot Wheels has an amazing 4 story car garage that is amazing. I want to get that for Andrew.

I also met with Razor scooters and saw the Crazy Cart XL which can hold a 6’4 240lb man. The biggest cart that they have made yet. There are a ton of super cool other toys that are coming. There is even an adult sized trike that I really , really want.

The rest of the day was full of seeing so many toys and games and cool things. The night was capped off with the Hasbro event with the folks at Litzky PR. I love the tour around Hasbro and seeing so many amazing things. I got to see the Devastator toy which is HUGE. It is incredible. Photos do not do it any sort of justice.

After that event I went to dinner with my friends Keri, Derek and Adam. We had a great meal with great conversation. It was a later night than last night but so good to be out with friends laughing and having such a great time. I wish this was more than once a year.

Conferences, Photo-A-Day, Toys, Travel

Toy Fair 2015 – Day 1


Photo-A-Day #3600

For the third year in a row I attended Toy Fair in New York City. And for the third year in a row there was a major snow storm. I had worked overnight from home while the snow was falling and even got out and shoveled out my car at 2am. I got out a couple hours early and headed down to the train station. It was blizzard conditions and I was one of only four cars on the road. I did arrive safely and I was very surprised that my train was actually running. It was an hour late but it got me down to New York and I had time to make it to my appointments for the day.

I spent the rest of the day at the Toy Fair meeting with many different companies including Modarri. They have some new repaints and also some new body kits and even a tire pack coming out. The booth was set up with some PlayTape which looked like roads and also there were a bunch of custom made Modarri cars that artists in Santa Cruz created.

I then went to a bunch of appointments all over the main floor of Toy Fair. I hit Playmobil, I was not allowed to take any photos there and I really wanted to. There is a set of motorcycle figures that I really want to collect. They also had much more including some very cool stuff coming soon which I can’t talk about.

I went to the Crayola booth and was blown away by the Animation studio. This upcoming product incorporates the technology from the Virtual Design Pro studio and then allows kids to create animated movies by making a few simple moves to a wire-frame figure. This will be amazing and I am looking forward to working on movies with Eva.

I also visited the Playmates booth to see all of the great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that are coming for the year. I saw a little preview of where the line is going for the fourth season of the show. There were also some new Half Shell Heroes toys and all new playsets.

I finished up at the convention center and went to my hotel. The walk seemed shorter this year, which was good because I was exhausted. I got myself a couple of slices of pizza and ended up passing out dead asleep at 8:30pm. I woke at 4:30 am so I didn’t get the full amount of sleep I was hoping for but I slept pretty well.