Ladies and gentlemen, please take your places as the show is about to begin. This Christmas’ hottest toys will be walking the ramp in a few seconds and it is for you to judge if they as hot as you would expect them to be. Please make way for…
Melissa & Doug Wooden Sandwich-Making Set
This unassuming cute beauty will have kids drooling over hearing the realistic “crunch” as they slice their way through the brightly-colored, solid-wood food sets. Smooth-sanded pieces and great craftsmanship make these sets the stuff kids will enjoy again and again!
With a colorful likenesses of meaty cold cuts, garden vegetables and fresh bread, the pieces thoughtfully come with Velcro inserts, so keeping the sandwiches together is no problem. Thank goodness!
Vtech Kidizoom Digital Camera
From the kitchen to the gizmo contestant. Presenting the 0.3 mega pixel camera in sparkling pink! It comes with a built-in photo editor and 2 games with 64MB of built-in memory to store 400+ photos! Its built-in photo editor can add 12 silly frames and stamps and a couple of kaleidoscope effects. With photos and photo editing all in one, your kids can have twice the fun. Additionally you can link up to the TV or computer to view and edit photos or watch videos. In-built games can be played on-the-move or via a TV. Adored by 3 year olds and above.
Nerf N-Strike Maverick
And finally the challenger comes from the incredibly cool Maverick blaster… a six-dart barrel and flip-open rapid launching N-Strike! Like the gun toted by the cowboy hero with whom it shares its name, the Maverick is a six-shooter with a rotating barrel, a pullback mechanism and an auto-advancing barrel.
Visually the Maverick could fool you. It’s intimidatingly large and gives the impression that a child would have difficulty lifting it, but the plastic is lightweight, and can be handled by boys of all ages. The Maverick is actually among the smaller Nerf dart guns currently in production and despite the apparent complexity of its design, operation is limited to a quick and simple load, cock, and fire.
The sound of fire is like a muted air-gun (even though it doesn’t have a spring mechanism) and the dart shoots out remarkably fast for a dart gun. While it is powerful enough for big-yard outdoor play, the darts themselves are of a harmless suction-cup-on-foam design. And while that is good, what’s better is their vibrant day-glo orange color which makes them easy to pick out from grass or behind furniture.