Toys today are so high tech that when a child asks for something like a pony, you can actually give them a pony, one that won't have them complaining afterwards about wanting the real thing.
At a recent Time to Play event showcasing some of the top candidates for pint-sized begging and pleading this holiday season, we saw lots of classic toys and activities updated for the 21st Century.
Take Nanovor for example. It's an online card game you can take offline. Instead of two kids throwing cards and trying to figure out based on the rules whose creature defeats whose just touch the $50 handhelds together.
"You're going to take the collection you've built online, you're going to push it down to the handheld, you'll pick a Nanovor to throw into the battle arena first, you'll select an attack then you physically connect the devices together then goo happens -- you'll see each Nanovor drops into the arena performs an attack object of the game is to destroy all of your buddy's monsters," Smith & Tinker, Joe Lawandus, said.
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Classic Toys
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Another neat toy that's a win-win for parents and kids allows you to take all the little broken bits of crayons that are laying all over the house and make new ones using Crayola's Crayon Maker.
"It's basically a crayon cooker so when you stick those bits of crayons inside the cooker and you flip the light on it starts to cook them and the cool part is for kids is all those crayons are multi colored with swirls so and everyone is really fun to color with," Crayola spokesperson, Stacy Gabrielle, said.
The device, which costs $25, not only cleans your home, but it makes brand new crayons at the same time.
