This is a pretty cool toy in the Dino Horizons line by Tedco Toys. You’ve all seen the “knowledge wheel” learning tools with all kinds of subjects. As far as I can tell, this is the only one out there about dinosaurs. This toy showcases 40 different dinosaurs, from the Devonian period (over 360 million […]

This was a pretty basic solar system model put out by Slinky Science for around $20. I put this one together with my soon-to-be six year old and while he was able to help with most of it, some of the assembly took a little more dexterity than he has. In particular, putting the string […]

This is one pretty cool dinosaur replica. Any serious dinosaur toy collector will know the realism of Safari’s Carnegie Museum Collection and this one is no exception. This particular spinosaurus mold was sculpted in 1992 at 1:40 scale and is about nine inches in total length and about six inches high. It is a very […]

This is a pretty nice habitat that, while a bit flimsy, does provide your tadpoles and frogs a fairly natural environment. My tadpoles took about two weeks to arrive but did arrive healthy. It took a couple of months for them to complete the metamorphosis into frogs but it was an amazing process. The Uncle […]

This is one pretty cool new kit for SmartLab, the makers of the ever-popular grade challenge books- ie., their SmartLab 1st Grade Challenge (and 2nd through 4th as well). This new one is a bit bigger than the rest of their science kits. The anatomically correct human model (that you can actually see through) is […]

This is one pretty cool science kit. It basically comes with six oversized test tubes, with three or four experiments in each for a total of twenty cool science activities. The insta-worms were very cool. One of the tubes came with the stuff to make jelly crystals. They’re not quite the crystals you think of […]

While the toy industry is fairly seasonal and toy recalls can dominate the media during the holiday peak season, it helps consumers to remember that recalls happen throughout the rest of the year as well. This is another instance of– if an organization is doing their job well, we rarely hear about it. For example, […]

This is one fun construction toy. I came across this when looking for toys that weren’t made in China and the Quercetti line of Intelligent Toys are all made in Italy. The one pictured here is the 140-piece manual one with about 15 feet of track. They make several models with either more track, or […]