FAO-BOY! TOY MECCA IS BACK
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November 26, 2004 -- The world&#39;s oldest toy store was back in business yesterday - just in time for the holidays. FAO Schwarz â-t Fifth Avenue and 58th Street â -ng its doors open for the first time
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Life & style: Blokarting, octopush, goalball - weird new fusion games are being invented all the time to encourage more people to play sport. Anyone for blackminton?
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NEW YORK  - Entertainment-themed toys once again generated most of the buzz at the annual Toy Fair gathering amid expectations that "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Shrek the Third" will yield blockbuster toy sales this year.
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After a big success with its LeapPad, the educational toy maker is hoping for a new winner in the Tag.
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Have children lost their fondness for Lego's colourful plastic building bricks in this age of high-tech, interactive computer games and electronic gadgetry? It would appear so.
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Gabe:  We had this shirt at PAX and next to the actual PAX 2007 design I think it was our best seller. Like the majority of our stuff this probably won't make any sense to some of you. I'll just say it's Pokemon related and leave it at that. For you trainers out there who couldn't make it to PAX the shirt is now available in our store. The Target by our office had the new PSP slim with Daxter pack today so I went and picked one up. They unfortunately did not have the AV cables so I can't test the video out stuff yet. In fact all I've done so far is open it up and plug it in to charge. I don't know how "slim" it is but it's crazy light. I thought I was holding some kind of fake display PSP and the real one was still in the box somewhere.-Gabe out
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Gabe: You might notice that in Today"s comic Tycho is reading Bloodlines. We both just wrapped the book up and it"s incredible. I"ve always been a huge Boba Fett fan and now thanks to Karen Traviss I know why.
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News flash: Kids like playing with toys. No one is stopping the presses over that observation, but it could help turn around the slumping toy industry this holiday season as it battles video games, cellphones and iPods for coveted spots on children's wish lists.
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FAO Schwarz on Monday said it would reopen its flagship toy store on New York City's Fifth Avenue on Thursday.
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The 2006 holiday season is filled with robo-toys, in hopes to woo young consumers
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American International Toy Fair brings out goods from the likes of Hasbro, Lego and the maker of the original ant farm.
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Tycho:  I don't know why I get my hopes up reading shit about "broken street dates" online, I'm perpetually disappointed by the results.  I got a game on the actual ship date five years ago, and it's made me into some kind of Goddamned optimist.  There are scattered reports that people have picked them up, and you may invest your time in this way if you are desperate, but I apologize for wasting your time.  (CW)TB
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Contrary to what you may hear, the popular toy, now a movie, is not just a hit with guys. Girls like 'em, too.
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The real-world toy maker joins Mattel and Hasbro in catering to children online.
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Entertainment-themed toys  once again generated most of the buzz at the annual Toy Fair  gathering amid expectations that "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of  the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Shrek the Third" will yield  blockbuster toy sales this year.
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Gabe: I had planned on making a couple posts last week but I ended up getting some kind of devil virus. It was the sort of sick where you don't really sleep. You just curl up in the bathroom and hallucinate that wolves are encircling you. I'm feeling better now though.I had wanted to talk about some stuff but I forgot almost all of it during my spirit quest. Let me see if I can remember anything. Sorry if this is sort of scattershot.I did go to the Pokemon Tournament and I ended up taking fourth. It was my first tourney and I was using a pretty crazy deck I'd built just a few days prior. Kiko also went and he took fifth even though we had the same win loss record during the day. They used some special Pokemon math to push me in to the final four and give him fifth. I pretty proud of both of us. It was a new level of competition that we'd never seen before and I think we played really well.If you're a fan of Transformers I highly recommend the new animated series on Cartoon Network. Some people might be turned off by the look but I think it's incredible. It's got a very Teen Titans look which makes sense seeing as it's by the same people. Even in vehicle mode these transformers are expressive and full of character. I read Amulet over the weekend (don't believe the date on his site, it is already in stores) and if you are a fan of comics I suggest you do the same. I don't want to say too much about it. I think that Kazu is one of the most talented individuals working in comics today. With Amulet he has created something timeless. I've collected all your Dickerdoodle pictures and there's some pretty great stuff in there. Give me some time to sort through them and I'll start posting my favorites soon. I'll get Tycho to help me pick a winner and we'll find something cool here in the office as a prize.-Gabe out
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Video games are so last Christmas. This year, kids want wheels.