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TOYS REVIEWS ALEX JR. MY BUSY TOWN WOODEN ACTIVITY CUBE written by: duncanstephen101 What is this toy? ALEX Jr. My Busy Town Wooden Activity Cube is a toy set that is primarily designed for children aged above one year of age and which features several activities all in a single five-sided wooden base package. The following are the most outstanding features and specifications of the toy together with their benefits: Color and Patterns The toy is made of very bright colors and patterns that…

“Hah, I won once again,” my sister, Linda, yelled out. I couldn’t put anything into words, my sister kept winning over and over again. I was so devastated, I wanted to win but I couldn’t. “Elvis, wake up and get ready,” my dad yelled at me. My head was spinning from waking up, I didn’t know why we were waking up so early. It was 7:30 AM, it was July 23, 2009. It was a sunny morning. I got out of my bed and started getting ready. “Hurry up, we are going to be late for the trip,” my dad told me. I…

was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She later died in 2002 from complications from colon surgery. Ruth Handler has changed the way companies have been functioning and adding her own contributions to Mattel Inc. such as Barbie, to make it the largest toy company in the world as of 2014. Mattel Inc. began as a furniture shop in a garage ran by Elliot Handler. Mattel Inc. stated "Handler started out designing light fixtures but soon began making furniture to sell out of his garage." Elliot wanted…

seen, but holds together well so far. Overall, a great gift for a low or middle school fans of Star Wars! It is a large set of my favorite films of the Star Wars saga. It 'very detailed and it was really nice to how to set it so that the swing lever blocks around so Han Carbonite can be inserted under the edge can be seen that almost seems like magic, or at least no 6…

is no middle ground. Toys for boys exude masculinity and subtly teach boys to be tough and not show weakness. Toys for girls are covered in pink and purple, helping fuel the stereotype that girls are “frilly” and want to be princesses that wear makeup. The toys and clothing companies create gender specific things that if a boy wanted to wear girl’s clothing, he would be seen as an outcast or troubled. Children are taught how to be a boy or a girl through the marketing of toys and clothing, which…

From baby boomers to millennials, we have grown up on Legos. Whether it was a five-hundred-piece space ship or 10,002-piece model empire state building, there are childhood memories of the Lego brand nestled in our brain. Way back, not so long ago, in 2008 I was nine years old. Christmas was right around the corner and I had only one item on my list, the Batcave Lego set complete with the bat mobile and batwing. Obviously once Christmas morning came, I viscously tore into that gigantic red…

Every single time I clean my room a little Lego piece shows up somewhere: under my bed, in my drawers, in my closet, and probably several have been sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. Even for the past five years I have had a Lego Star Wars ARC-170 bomber laying on my dresser. Legos are a way for me to express my imagination: they enable me to build what I want when I want. I have spent countless hours just tinkering with these plastic pieces and setting up storylines to go along with them. Slowly,…

If you had a daughter, would you let her play with Barbie? Lots of people say that Barbie is bad and that you should not let your children play with her. Other say different that she is the very definition of imagination that children need. With that being we ask ourselves, does Barbie give young girls negative thoughts about their body image? How many kids play with Barbie? Barbie is an old doll that has been around for a long time, since 1959 to be exact. How many kids play with…

BrickLAB Brain Builders $775.00 Let’s build better brains! Using bricks to enhance learning, explore communication concepts and teamwork as students tackle lessons in social studies, geography, history and biology, all while learning to build, collaborate and learn together. By using brain-bending logic puzzles to build upon and develop new problem solving skills, each lesson introduces exciting STEM concepts. From science and engineering processes to stimulating mental challenges, students…

During my visit to Wal-Mart’s toy aisle I noticed that construction toys, cars, and action figures were all in the boy aisle; however, the girl was mostly pink with Barbie’s, kitchen sets, and baby dolls. Doing research I then learned that Wal-Mart is portraying “Gender Based Marketing.” Wal-Mart’s choice of using the color blue for the boy’s aisle and pink section for the girl’s aisle traditionally known to be classified to a particular gender. Toys packaging is targeted through color, wording,…