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| PIRG Toy Safety Focuses on toy safety and has a complete list dangerous toys, plus shopping tips for consumers.http://www.pirg.org/toysafety/ |
| W.A.T.C.H. World Against Toys Causing Harm Non-profit organization that lists toy hazards and a "10 worst toys" list.http://www.toysafety.org/ |
| Virginia Cooperative Extension: Tips on Toys Choosing safe toys, organized by age of the child.http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/family/350-063/350-063.html |
| Epinions: Toys Comprehensive site with consumer reviews, tips, and advice on both toys and games. Search by type, character, price or brand name.http://www.epinions.com/kifm-Toys-All |
| All-Reviews: Toys Reviews of toys and games by consumers.http://www.all-reviews.com/toys.htm |
| Game and Toy Reviews What's a Kid 2 Do? and, What's a Teen 2 Do? provide computer children's software, toy, games, and sports reviews for consumers. Site focuses on products that are currently popular and in demand.http://www.kid2do.com/reviews.htm |
| The National Parenting Center Independent parent testers review, test, and give seals of approval to toys, games, books, software, educational products.http://www.tnpc.com/soa/hol99soa.html |
| Consumer Reports for Kids Online Zillions (Consumer Reports for Kids) includes advice, ratings of toys and other things kids buy, and fun features like Fad Alert. Accepts no advertising from companies.http://www.zillions.org/ |
| Rave Reviews Sesame Street Parents presents age-customized reviews of kids' toys, books, software, games.http://www.ctw.org/parents/reviews/0,1184,,00.html |
| T.O.T.Y. Awards Toy of the Year Awards, voted upon by the general public and the toy industry. Data is available seasonally, generally around Christmas.http://www.toy-tma.org/toty/index.html |
| CPSC Toy Safety Publications Publications from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/toy_sfy.html |
| What's a Kid 2 Do: Toys Reviews of popular children's toys with specifications and price range.http://www.kid2do.com/toys1.htm |
| How Stuff Works: How Magna Doodle Works Photographic tour of the Magna Doodle, shows how the liquid dispersion medium is used in a toy that allows children to draw and re-draw pictures and words without wasting paper or creating chalk dust.http://www.howstuffworks.com/magna-doodle.htm |
| Edutaining Kids Reviews and guide to the best children's "edutainment" toys, videos, software, music, and video games.http://www.edutainingkids.com |
| Toy Hazard Recalls Toy recalls from the Consumer Product Safety Commission back to 1975.http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/category/toy.html |
| HowStuffWorks: How Water Blasters Work Animated article shows inner workings of water pump guns capable of shooting 50 feet.http://www.howstuffworks.com/water-blaster.htm |
| Sci-Fi Toys IGN Sci-Fi focuses on science fiction toys, particularly action figures, with reviews and notices of what is new and on the market.http://scifi.ign.com/toys.html |
| How Stuff Works: Dancing Monster Novelty In-depth description with many inside-view photos of a popular seasonal motorized novelty item.http://www.howstuffworks.com/dancing-monster.htm |
| Sport Fun Offers specifications and information on many sporting goods and toys geared towards young children and teens.http://www.sportfun.com/ |
| Toy Safety Survey Annual survey and video demonstrations of unsafe toys. Tips for choosing safe toys.http://www.toysafety.net |
| ConsumerGuide Best Buys: Toys Staff reviewers analyze products and recommend the best.http://www.consumerguide.com/index.cfm?act=family&main=detail&body=../familychannel/subcategories/sublist11403 |
| The Toy Guy Toy reviews, game reviews, resources for parents and kids.http://www.thetoyguy.com/ |
| Canadian Toy Testing Council Non-profit, charitable organization that offers evaluations of toys tested by children in everyday settings, to assess design, function, durability and play value.http://www.toy-testing.org |
| Dr. Toy Provided by the Institute for Childhood Resources, this comprehensive site has tips, articles, evaluations, company links, toy history, "100 best toys", web links.http://www.drtoy.com/ |
| Top Selling Toys Month by month list, and archives of previous years, of top selling toys, compiled by the American Toy Institute.http://www.toy-tia.org/content/navigationmenu/library/Statistics3/Top_Selling_Toys/Top_Selling_Toys.htm |
| Classic Toys Classic toys that are still on the market, along with their first year of introduction and their current manufacturer. Compiled by the American Toy Institute.http://www.toy-tia.org/content/navigationmenu/library/Classic_Toys/Classic_Toys.htm |
| Fun Play, Safe Play Covers importance of play, safety tips, and toy suggestions.http://www.toy-tia.org/content/navigationmenu/library/Publications_Resources1/Fun_Play_Safe_Play/FunPlaySafePlay.pdf |
| Dragon Magazine Role playing and other games reviewed. Includes forum, articles and links.http://www.skirmisher.com/dragon-0.htm |
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