New Toys for Christmas this Year

All new toys must first of all be tested before they are marketed and all new toys for Christmas this year will have gone through that process. Of course, health and safety considerations come high on the list but apart form that, and we shall assume that all new toys for Christmas this year for sale in reputable stores have passed that test.

New toys for Christmas this year will also of course almost always have been tested by children in play settings to determine durability, age-appropriateness and play patterns. At least one large toy manufacturer maintains and in-house, year-round nursery school for this purpose, while others establish relationships with universities and other educational facilities.

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Imagine if you had been a child and taken to one of these purposes. You would already have had a chance to see, and play with at least some of the new toys for Christmas this year. Wow! That must be some nursery!

New quality toys are best for your children to use, as they are more durable than old, used toys. If you would like to give your baby a secondhand toy, do inspect it carefully.

No matter what is really new in the new toys for Christmas this year, there will be thousands of appropriate for youngsters who just want to play with a G.I. Joe action figure, while vintage and vintage reissues are more appropriate for toy collectors.

Plastic pellets (beanie animals) are allowed for children over 3 years old, but do take care to avoid toys with detachable parts (like button eyes) that can be removed and swallowed or inhaled.

It matters not what the children think of these toys, or what is really new in the new toys for Christmas this year. One big shock in recent years has been the revelation that plastics aren't as stable as we had previously thought, polymers degrade, and plastic products can begin to shrink and become sticky even in normal room heat.

So watch out for even the new toys for Christmas this year, for the risk of ingestion of some rather nasty substances can take place with a child. So make sure aged and elderly plastic toys aren't showing too much sign of discoloration nor any stickiness at all. If they are, then don't hesitate to discard them immediately and buy new. It is simply not worth endangering young lives due to possible ingestion of carcinogenic substances related to plastic in toys.

However, technology in the new toys for Christmas this year has been transforming the magical world of the best toys more than ever before. Even a classic toy like Mattel's (MAT ) Barbie is no longer an inanimate doll that little girls can project fantasies onto.

Barbie is hardly one of the new toys for Christmas this year. But now Barbie Software is all the rage now. Barbie owners can be real fashion designers with this computer software. There is even an electronic element to the classic Tickle-Me Elmo, and D-Rex, the latest in dinosaurs.

I only found out recently that Barbie and Ken, her boyfriend, were named after the real children of Ruth Handler, Barbie's creator, the wife of one of the founders of Mattel, Inc., and the driving force behind the company for many years. Barbie of course came first. When Ken was introduced, in 1961, Handler wanted him to be what is referred to nowadays as "anatomically correct," but Mattel's (male) marketing department said no.

Technology has made great advances especially in the new toys for Christmas this year, but toys are still toys. A good toy is the same the world over and needs to spark the child's own imagination before it can provide real play value.
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