NEW 2012 Super Set: Dragon's Lair

Battle a menacing dragon over rocky terrain, play with a heroic knight who protects the entire kingdom  and explore the secret hiding place amid the rocks, which is THE perfect spot to store ancient treasures. This Superset includes a dragon, two figures, the rocky landscape, shields, helmuts, and additional accessories.

NEW 2012 Super Set: Pirates' Cove

Store buried treasure with this awesome pirate theme set for aspiring swashbucklers seeking out their next adventure. The set includes a fortress with a secret compartment, two pirate figures, a dinghy complete with oars, a working cannon, and several dditional accessories.

NEW 2012 Super Set: Fairy Fountain

Discover a world full of fantastical unicorns and fairies with the Super Set Fairy Fountain. This set is especially cool for the real working fountain! There is a unicorn and two fairies included along with a green, grassy landscape to trees, birds, and other accessories compatible with several other fairy figurines found in Playmobil’s collections.

NEW 2012 Super Set:  Animal Care Station

The Animal Care Station is an ideal solo set but also goes perfectly with a variety of the animal themed sets playmobil has put out over the years. The animals are taken care of with bandages and plasters. The baby giraffe has a wound on her leg. In addition to the baby giraffe, there’s also a zebra and a panda included with the set.

Love the Beastie

Now this is a pop-up book! And makes a great Valentine’s Day gift too! A follow-up to the popular Pat the Beastie the tale finds Beastie and his new best friends Paul and Judy having lots of fun together playing on the playground, brushing teeth and even playing dress-up. There are so many great things to do on all of the pages and visually there are tons to look at. The text will make you and your kids giggle and the activities will definitely keep everyone busy.

Keep track of the road to the NHL Stanley Cup finals. The magnetic NHL standings board is the perfect NHL team tracker. NHL standings board, NHL finals tracker. The board is super-durable and measures 14” x 24”. One side features season standings while the other has the playoffs standings. The board can also be conveniently mounted on the wall.

Scholastic Discover More is a revolutionary new nonfiction line pairing stunning print books with corresponding interactive digital books that extend the learning online. Discover More is a unique new book series with titles created for the emerging reader, the confident reader, and the expert reader.

With lots of topics to choose from, each child can choose, explore, and discover topics that fall under their own particular interests. For the emerging reader, there are titles like Farm and See Me Grow. Penguins falls under the Discover More Series’ 6+ volumes as does Planets. The confident reader can enjoy learning about topics like Ocean and Sea, and Elements on his or her own.

Each of the print books in the Discover More Series are accompanied with a Bonus digital copy providing features complementing the book’s topic with many bonus features.

Each Expert Reader Digital Companion Book Features:

• 64 pages of additional content
• 30 illustrated encyclopedia entries
• 30 illustrated dictionary entries

All children want to learn their place in the universe, discover how our planet fits into the solar system, and are blown away by the crazy, big facts and stats of space. Welcome to a tour of the major planets, moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and other rocks and gas that orbit the sun. The latest NASA and European Space Station images, many unique to this book, are combined with up-to-the-minute information from space experts across the globe, and modern graphics to entice confident and reluctant readers alike.

Small in size but big in personality, stars of movies, TV, and games, penguins are loved by kids everywhere. This book reveals their real lives, far beyond our wildest imagination! Meet every one of the 17 different kinds of penguin; discover how they eat, sleep, talk, walk and more.

We know more about Mars than we do about the oceans that cover 70 percent of Earth's surface and sustain life on our blue planet. Yet every child is fascinated by sharks, tsunamis, palm-fringed beaches, coral reefs and superstrange-looking deep-sea fish. This book is a genuine contribution to our understanding of the world's last wilderness. It introduces ocean water, geology, tides, waves, and coastlines, then moves on to a stunning catalogue of ocean life, from the smallest sponge to the largest whale. Beautiful original photographs and dramatic modern graphics are combined with up-to-the-minute factual knowledge from marine biologists, conservationists, and explorers.

The PlasmaBike from Plasmart: No batteries, pedals, or gears - just a fun, progressive and encouraging start to bicycle riding this spring.

The Plasmabike's unique design encourages coordination, balance and motor skill development while offering a really fun, sturdy ride. This fun bike comes from Plasmart, makers of the Plasmacar!

Children as little as 18 months enjoy the freedom of riding without the complication of training wheels or anxiety of having to hold their balance too long, too early. Wide wheels ensure that PlasmaBike doesn't tip over in a stationary or stopped position, giving added confidence and promoting self esteem. The limited steering range wide wheels enhance balancing capabilities and provide a smoother transition to a conventional 2 wheel ride. Made in Europe.

The popular Scratch & Sketch art series is fun new way to sketch for many ages! There are lots of titles to choose from in three assorted ranges, Original Scratch & Sketch, Travel Scratch & Sketch, and Travel Scratch & Sketch. There are also themes like Circus, Dragons & Mythical Creatures, & Batman.

These fun sketch books offer kids a whole new way to draw and create images and is perfect for on-the-go with only oe inlcuded wooden stylus needed to draw all the pictures inside.

Simply scratch away the black coating on each of the pages. This reveals swirls, patterns, and holographic colours that seem to make images appear magically! Each book is carefully shrink-wrapped and includes a wooden stylus for drawing on the special, black-coated paper. Each 64-page book includes 20 illustrated, 20 scratch-off, and 20 sketch pages with a wire-o-bound hardcover.

MOGO magnetic charm bracelets are the newest jewelry design fun to arrive at Turtle Pond Toys! With special bands and a wide variety of magnetic charms (including birthstones & unisex letters) to choose from, anyone can design a fun, fashionable, and personalized jewelry and accessories to wear. Collect all the MOGO charms and the mix and match, trade with friends, and design your own bracelets, belts, anklets, headbands, and whatever else your imagination can create.

Each Tin Collection has three magnetic charms that clip into the MOGO Charmband securely. They're all magnetic so they can be kept in lockers and other magnetic surfaces to show them off. MOGOs also make a great, custom-made friendship bracelet.

MOGO was founded by an animal lover from Washington who stumbled across the idea for MOGO by trying to repair horse blankets with magnets. Though the idea didn't exactly work for the blankets, it did inspire her to create the fun, vibrant line. One very laudable feature of this company aside from the products, is that MOGO sponsors a rescued animal every month, contributing up to $1,000 to support the health and well-being of that animal.

Tell Tale: Ages 6-adult, 3-8 players, 20 mins. Tell Tale uses cards with a variety of images ranging from the charming to the ordinary, encompassing a range of situations.  The idea is for players to improvise stories.

Take a journey into storyland... Whether engaged in a friendly contest or creating a story together, you will love the way Tell Tale gives your imagination a chance to shine. Seven fun family games and thousands of short stories to tell are included in the travel-size tin. 

Spot It: Ages 7 -adult, 2-8 players, 10-20 mins. A sharp eye and a little bit of speed is all it takes to become a Spot it! master. 

There is always one, and only one, matching symbol between any 2 cards in this party game. Spot It and you are on your way to victory!

Trigger: Ages 8-adult, 3-8 players, 20 mins. Test your coordination & reaction abilities.

Slap yourself silly in the ridiculously fun party game. Players answer true or false to statements as quickly as possible by slapping the target.

For the young set:

The Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game: ages 3-7, 2-4 players. Help your hungry forest friends! Spin the spinner, squeeze the matching coloured acorn with your Squirrel Squeezers, and place it into your log. Be the first to your log with delicious acorns and you win! You could also spin "pick an acorn," "steal an acorn," or "lose an acorn," so be strategic, little squirrel!
 

 

 

 

Perplexus Rookie:4 - adult. The Rookie introduces a gravity-defying, three dimensional world of Perplexus. Twist flip, and turn the sphere through 75 barriers. A shelter finish keeps the ball in place at the end to secure your success! Serious fun for the whole family.

Honey Bee Tree: ages 3-10:

Don't wake the sleeping bees when pulling out the leaves of the Honey Bee Tree! Pull out the wrong leaf and bees come tumbling out into the player's tray. Once all the leaves are removed from the honey tree, or all the bees are awake and out of the tree, the player with the least amount of bees in his/her flower tray is the winner.

For Older Kids to Teens & Adults

Anomia: 10-adult, 3-6 players, 20 mins.

This Mensa Select Winner is a word game with cards and symbol-matching, where players place in front of them a card from a shared deck, turn it face up, and everyone races to see if it matches those of other players (or the wild cards). If there is a match, then the pressure is on, as the players with the matching pair try to shout out a word or phrase that matches the category written on the other player's card. Yes, you need to be on the ball!  Tons of replay value in this fun game.

Bohnanza: 8-adult, 2-7 players, 45 mins.

As card games go, this one is quite revolutionary and perhaps its oddest feature is that you cannot rearrange your hand; you need to play in the order that you draw cards. The cards are colourful depictions of beans & the object is to make coins by planting fields/sets of these beans and harvesting them. The game features extensive trading and deal making.

 

Dutch Blitz: 8-adult, 2-12 players, 10 mins.

Dutch Blitz is a friendly family game where players try to compose sets of cards out of the deck in such a way as to get rid of their Blitz pile as soon as possible. This is a simple game that is easy to learn, and fun for everyone!

 

Pocket Farkel: 8-adult, 2-8 players, 30 mins.

This dice game is easy to learn and play, and it accommodates a wide range of ages. It's a fun, fast-paced, high-score game that takes just two minutes to learn. The first player to score more than 10,000 points wins.  A small package, great for travel.

 

Dominion & Expansion Sets: 8-10 and Up, 2-4 players, 30 mins. Mensa Select medieval strategy game. You are a monarch, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom. You have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and more trees. You want a Dominion!  In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums, small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people. But wait! Several other monarchs have the same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury.
Expansion sets: Expansions broaden the pool that the game's (generally random) initial layout comes from, with unique play effects, props, and tokens, making it more likely you'll run into novel power combinations and force-multipliers.