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Holiday Toy Preview

Tech Time

November 7, 2012
For a cute techy gift for kids, check out Kidiminiz from VTech Toys. These interactive “pets” sing, dance move and more in response to your kids actions. There are bunnies, dogs & cats for kids ages 4-7. There’s also a real clock and alarm inside the toy.

And if you put two Kidiminiz in front of each other they'll talk and interact, they'll even sing songs...cool. My kids really enjoyed the interactive elements, they had as much fun watching the Kidiminiz interact with each other as they did actually playing with the toy.


Giants

We were hit by Hurricane Sandy and my kids could not go trick or treating. Were they bummed? Nope, I brought home the test game of Skylanders Giants that Activision sent us. Seriously, my kids didn’t leave the couch on Halloween night. Giants is the newest version of Skylanders, a video game that includes action figures that come to life on-screen. I’ve played it, I last about 3 minutes before my characters die, but for the kids it’s hours and hours of entertainment. If you are going the video game route, you can’t go wrong.