"The Rubik's Cube provides balance in the toy box, " explains Adrienne Citrin, speaking for the Toy Industry Association.
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The toy box in the back and lemon drops at the counter make this store a favorite among fashionistas with young children.
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The Toy Box in Disney Infinity may be similar to LittleBigPlanet, but I love the idea of more games building off of player interaction and collaboration.
You can also build in the toy box world, which means players will only be limited by their own imagination (and time and commitment to building in video game worlds).
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"Sure, it's a fun toy first and foremost, but once the initial novelty wears off it doesn't have to end up at the bottom of the toy box ... it's yours to reinvent, " he says.
Disney Infinity allows players the opportunity to share these unique creations in the "Toy Box" mode with friends both online and off.
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If your kids' toys actually live in the family room -- not in the bedroom toy box -- create a storage solution there.
Additionally, players will be able to transport vehicles and mounts from the game world into the open world toy box.
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The first quarter of 2011 saw the box office success of Toy Story 3.
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"If it becomes just a toy in the box of a Happy Meal, then we're just a promotional company and we'll make a modest profit, " says investor Bippy Siegal, chairman of Raycliff Investments in New York.
Just ask Matt Hannifin, who has run the jewel box-like Science Toy Magic Shop in Santa Fe, N.
Mistakenly thinking that she owes her free phone to the generosity of Barack Obama, the grateful woman sounding like a child who delights in the box of cereal that includes a free toy will vote for the incumbent in hopeful expectation of another free prize.
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Regardless of their favorite big box toy store, the average age is relatively similar (41.8 Target, 43.1 Toys R Us, and 43.6 Wal-Mart).
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While part of that game is the typical user experience of going through the narrative of the movie, another part features a toy box where players can collect and play with different toys in a more free-form environment.
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Getting into specifics, the Wall Street Journal recently reported on Lisa Zerr, owner of Yankee Toy Box, and her urgent need to secure credit in order to upgrade her inventory ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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The girl has her abuelo sleep in a toy box, not a coffin, and pads it with stuffed animals.
That's what Forbes.com has been doing for nearly two years: Starting in 2005, our "Executive Toy Box" has looked at the favorite toys and tools of some of the world's leading technology executives.
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Unfortunately, with Toy Story 3 still doing so well at the box office, theater owners are likely to want to keep that film on their 3-D screens.
Despite the slight improvement driven Toy Story 3's robust debut, box office figures are running at about a 4% slower pace in the second quarter than a year ago.
The concept has some of its own unique innovations, such as Toy Box mode which allows players to create their own Disney-based worlds.
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If past animated films are any indication Dorothy of Oz has the potential to generate toy and merchandise revenues many multiples larger than its box office sales.
One goal of these big box toy retailers is to attract toy consumers regardless of the recipient.
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Disney set a box office record with Toy Story 3, which became the highest grossing animated movie ever.
Those products include comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.
The first Cars movie earned less overseas than it did in the U.S. By contrast he more recent Toy Story 3 earned 60% of its box office revenue overseas.
Wahlberg topped both the UK and US box office this summer in Ted, Seth MacFarlane's adult comedy about a toy bear who comes to life.
Since most people with a new toy immediately slip in the batteries and try to turn it on, the out-of-the-box experience is a frustrating one 15 minutes of button poking before giving up and diving for the manual.
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