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Playskool Toys Review – What types of Toys does Playskool Make?

With over a century in business, Playskool is one of the great old businesses serving the market of toys for young children.  Originally named The Playskool Institute, the company was founded in 1901 by Lucille King who made wooden toys that were to be used as teaching aids to be used by children in a classroom setting.  The company has been passed between several hands over the decades that it’s been in operation, until it finally landed in the hands of America’s oldest game manufacturer Milton Bradley in 1968, which became the property of Hasbro Inc. in 1984.

Since its acquisition by Hasbro, Playskool has been in the habit of constantly refreshing its image, coming out with 9 new slogans over a period of 25 years.  That’s an average of a new slogan once every 3 years.  The company’s current slogan is “More Than Play”, which it adopted in 2009.

Playskool manufactures several signature brands of toys which have become staples of childhood such as Play-Doh, Mr. Potato Head, Tinker Toys, Tonka, Lincoln Logs, Glo Friends, Weebles, Pipeworks, Transformers, Teletubbies, Arthur, Barney, Teddy Ruxpin, Baby Alive, My Little Pony and more.  Playskool also manufactures products that are marketed towards new born and preschool aged children which are aimed at developing motor skills, such as the Kick Start Gym, the Tummy Time line, and the Step Start Walk ‘n Ride.

With so many great products available, it’s really no wonder that Playskool has been able to keep running for over a century.  What childhood would be complete without those colorful clay-like blobs of Play-Doh, the distinctive smell of which will instantly bring adults back to their childhood days.  Or those childhood hours spent making funny faces with a Mr. Potato Head doll and giggling at the results.  And what young boy hasn’t had a Tonka Truck or played around building houses with Lincoln Logs?  And what young girl doesn’t want a My Little Pony doll or a Baby Alive doll to love and nurture?

And the company continues to expand and improve, and is now manufacturing a number of extra products under the Playskool name such as baby care supplies, books, children’s clothing, and even video games.  Playskool has even brokered a deal that allows it to manufacture products for the popular Nickelodeon cable television channel, which produces many very popular children’s’ television shows such as Spongebob Squarepants, The Fairly Odd Parents, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Winx Club, and more.

The Playskool Company is one of those iconic companies that have affected all of our childhoods, as you would expect from a company that’s been running a successful toy business for over a century.  Few other children’s toy companies match Playskool’s age, and fewer still match its success.  Its products are in every home where young children play and learn.  The company is definitely about “More Than Play”.  They make wonderful toys that build memories that last a lifetime, passing their success on to the next generation when those children grow up and become parents, to buy their children the iconic toys that they grew up with.  From its start with wooden toys to its success today as a major toy company, Playskool is one institution that we all know and love.

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Playskool Weebles Weeble-Go-Round Playset $15.99 Colorful and whimsical set makes for whirling, twirling fun as little ones press down on the squirrel to make the seats — and the WEEBLES figures sitting inside them — spin round and round! Set features seats for four WEEBLES figures! Set comes with two WEEBLES figures. Weeee! Your child is in for a “whirl” of fun with this WOBBLE-GO-’ROUND set. Set the two happy-faced WEEBLES figures in two of the four seats and encourage your child to press down on the “squirrel” at the top of carousel. As he does, the seats will spin around, treating the WEEBLES figures to a spinning ride and your child to a giggling good time! Add two more WEEBLES figures to the collection (sold separately) to fill all of the baskets and double the twirling fun. Set comes with two WEEBLES figures.

Weebles – Sharing in the Fun $8.49 A beloved staple of American childhood since the early 1970s, the iconic toys that wobble but don’t fall down spring to animated life in the charming cartoon series WEEBLES. Geared toward the preschool set, the series follows Bumpus, Demby, Tibby, Tooey, Zuzie Q, and the other Weebles in fun-filled adventures that render educational life lessons about sharing, teamwork, and friendship in colorfully vivid 3D-animation and energetic musical sequences. This second volume includes three more episodes: Bumpus’s New House, The Weeble Day Parade, and Birdie Lee’s Colorful Day.

Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville! [With 100 Reusable Stickers] $3.48 "Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down " Hasbro’s roly-poly toys have delighted children for more than 45 years–and this sticker-filled story will enhance kids’ fun with the characters, and build their skills, too. Greeting young readers when they open the book are Zuzie Q on her skateboard, Bumpus with his mailbag, Pendleton blowing a whistle, Tibby singing in front of the Karaokettes, and a host of other friendly WEEBLE faces. As kids follow the WEEBLES all around town, they’ll get busy putting down dozens of colorful stickers everywhere. There’s food, signs, a bunch of balloons, and much more

Weebles 24-Pak $3.99 Weebles 24-Pak Vinyl Sticker 24-Pak of Weebles stickers featuring Zuzie Q., Tooey, Pendleton, Tibby and the Weebles treehouse.

Playskool® Weebles® – Weebles on the Bus $16.99 Bus vehicle carries WEEBLES figures and makes them wobble and spin when you press the button on top! Bus vehicle features seats for up to six WEEBLES (additional figures sold separately). Vehicle comes with 2 WEEBLES figures. For ages 12 months and up.

Playskool Weebles Playground Playset $21.99 Watch your child laugh, play and learn with this ROCK ‘N WOBBLE PLAYGROUND playset for WEEBLES figures! They don’t fall down, but WEEBLES characters do almost everything else on their playground: spin, wobble, swing and slide. Encourage your child to press the lever to send a WEEBLES figure across the wobbling bridge or to activate the spinner on the slide to make figures wobble as they go! Your child’s fine motor skills and imagination will develop along with the adventures he or she creates for the WEEBLES! Playset comes with 1 WEEBLES figure.

Playskool Weebles Home Playset $39.99 This Turn ‘N Tumble Home Playset is your Weebles favorite place to play! Fun music plays while your child plays. Comes with 2 Weebles figures, a car, and instructions. Watch your child laugh, play, and learn! Wobblin’ mom and wobblin’ dad, havin’ the most fun they’ve ever had. They tumble and spin in their special way. This home is their favorite place to play! Watch your child laugh, play, and learn with this Turn ‘N Tumble Home Playset for Weebles figures! They don’t fall down, but Weebles do almost everything else in their home: spin, drop, ride in a car, and slide. Fun music plays while your child plays, and fine motor skills and imagination will develop along with the adventures he or she creates for the Weebles characters! The playset comes with 2 Weebles figures, a car, and instructions. Requires 2x “AA” batteries, included. Ages 1 and up.

Playskool Weebles Treehouse Playset $37.99 Whee! The Weebles Musical Treehouse Playset plays 4 songs and 8 different sounds. Send the two Weebles figures down the curvy slide. There’s tons of teetering, tottering fun with the wobbly deck! Whee! When your Weebles figures want to play, where can you send them? Let them have tons of teetering, tottering fun in their very own playhouse, the Weebles Musical Treehouse Playset! There are all kinds of levels of wobbly fun for you and your two friendly faced Weebles figures to explore. Send your topsy-turvy little figures up to the treetop by turning the crank, and let them look around far and wide. Then send them gliding back down again on the curvy slide. Up and down, and still more fun is coming! Is it the 4 songs or 8 different sounds this playset plays that have your Weebles rocking? No, it’s the lilting and tilting of the fun wobbly deck! Make some of your little friends play hide and seek, but it’s hard for them to stay hidden for long– they always end up wobbling around and giving up their hiding place. It’s a busy day for your Weebles figures, but even when they want a rest, they never stay down for long!

Weebles: Welcome to Weebleville! $8.49 A beloved staple of American childhood since the early 1970s, the iconic toys that wobble but don’t fall down spring to animated life in the charming cartoon series WEEBLES. Geared toward the preschool set, the series follows Bumpus, Demby, Tibby, Tooey, Zuzie Q, and the other Weebles in fun-filled adventures that render educational life lessons about sharing, teamwork, and friendship in colorfully vivid 3D-animation and energetic musical sequences. This first volume includes four episodes: Welcome to Weebleville, Weebles to the Wescue, Spaghetti Days, and Tooey’s Wobbly Weekend.

Playskool Sports Weebles $7.25 Get ready for giggles galore with this two-pack of Weebles figures! With one figure looking like a soccer player and the other looking like skateboarder, these two wobbly friends are sure to delight. And no matter which way your little sports fan sends them bobbing and dipping, these figures always pop right back up again for hours of friendly faced fun! Ages 12 months and up. Type: Brain Games Format: Interactive Toys Gender: Unisex Age: Child

Playskool Weebles Snowman and Santa Claus Set $6.49 The Playskool Weebles Christmas 2-Packs bring you Santa and a snowman! Ages 12 months and up. 2-pack of festive Weebles figures add wiggly, wobbly fun to your child’s holiday season! Prepare for some topsy-turvy, festive fun! This WEEBLES two-pack includes Santa and a Snowman figures in the classic, easy-to-grab shaped. Little ones will love the excitement of these two holiday characters, who sway and wobble with holiday glee — but never, ever fall down!

Peeble Weeble’s World $15.59 No Synopsis Available

The Feeble Weeble Wabble Wazoo $18.52 No Synopsis Available

Playskool Weebles 2 Pack – Music $6.99 Get ready for giggles galore with this two-pack of Weebles figures! With one figure looking like a singer and the other looking like drummer, these two wobbly friends are sure to delight. And no matter which way your little music lover sends them bobbing and dipping, these figures always pop right back up again for hours of friendly faced fun! Please note: Figures do not play music. Ages 12 months and up. Type: Brain Games Format: Interactive Toys Gender: Unisex Age: Child

Playskool Weebles 2 Pack – Play! $7.34 Get ready for giggles galore with this two-pack of Weebles figures! With one figure looking like he?s playing with a boat and the other looking like she?s playing with a doll, these two wobbly friends are sure to delight. And no matter which way your little one sends them bobbing and dipping, these figures always pop right back up again for hours of friendly faced fun! Ages 12 months and up. Type: Brain Games Format: Interactive Toys Gender: Unisex Age: Child

Weebles and the Cake Walk $24.33 No Synopsis Available

Weebles: Bumpus’s Bumpy Ride by Gribbin, Lisa; *SI Artists* Edition ILL, 0 $5.99 In a shaped board book that actually wobbles, little ones can find out how all the Weebles work together so Bumpus Wobbleworks can deliver the mail.

Toys & Prices $4.48 Features 30,000 listings and more than 80,000 prices for classic toys such as tin lunch boxes, space toys, Fisher-Price "RM" Little People, and Weebles. Covers everything from action figures to View-Master reels, offering collectors the most comprehensive coverage and up-to-date pricing available.

Cranky Pants $3.48 First-time author, Stephen Sanzo and former Disney feature film artist, Matt Whitlock, team up to bring you Cranky Pants. This lovable chronicle of a cranky boy’ss day is filled with vibrant illustrations and nostalgic imagery from the ’70s. Remember the Inchworm riding toy… Weebles… Holly Hobby? Parents and grandparents will enjoy the homage to their own childhoods and enjoy finding the subtle references woven throughout the book.

Dog Dizzy Treat Ball $24.99 Sometimes your pup wants to play, but you’re on an important phone call or downing the latest big bad on a raid with your WoW guild. It’s hard to multitask when there’s a wriggling ball of fur waiting for your undivided attention. And as much as you try, you can’t train a dog to understand what “Twenty minutes. We’ll go out and play fetch in 20 minutes….” means. Dog Dizzy is an interactive toy that will amuse your dog for those 20 minutes before you can take him out for a walk. Fill it up with your pup’s favorite small treats or dry kibble. Then put it on the ground and let your dog enjoy the puzzle of getting the treats out. Unlike lesser treat balls, the Dog Dizzy has a weight in the bottom that makes it roll erratically and always stop in the upright position. Also, no matter how funny the YouTube video might be, the manufacturer says you should not fill it with Fruity Pebbles and use it as a toddler entertainment device. Product Specifications Interactive treat toy for smart dogs Fill it with dry kibble or small treats Weighted bottom makes it weeble & wobble erratically Keeps your dog entertained so he won’t chew your furniture As fun as it might sound, do not fill with Fruity Pebbles & give to your toddler Dimensions: about 4″ in diameter

Cat Pyramid Treat Toy $15.99 It is a well known fact that cats will soon take over the world. They’ve already got you playing to their every whim. “Meow!” (Okay, we’ll give you wet food.) “MEOW!” (Okay, we’ll pet you.) “MeOW!” (Okay, we’ll stop petting you.) “MEow.” (Sure, you can come into the bedroom and stomp on our faces while we try to sleep.) Sound familiar? Yep, you’ve been kitteh-pwned. The Cat Pyramid is an interactive toy that will amuse your feline overlord and distract him from his world domination plans. Fill it up with your kitty’s favorite small treats or dry kibble. Then put it on the ground and let your cat enjoy the puzzle of getting the treats out. Unlike lesser treat dispenser toys, the Cat Pyramid has a weight in the bottom that makes it roll erratically and always stop in the upright position. Also, no matter how funny the YouTube video might be, the manufacturer says you should not fill it with Fruity Pebbles and use it as a toddler entertainment device. Product Specifications Interactive treat toy for smart kittehs Fill it with dry kibble or small treats Weighted bottom makes it weeble & wobble erratically Keeps kitteh distracted from his world domination plans As fun as it might sound, do not fill with Fruity Pebbles & give to your toddler

Rap-Murr-Phobia [Clean] $14.38 Four years after he released the unsatisfying and scattershot He’s Keith Murray and got himself kicked off Def Jam for allegedly strangling a street team member, the rapper who can’t be controlled returned with a solid effort that finishes a very close second behind his stunning debut, The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World. With executive producer, longtime associate and brother in Def Squad, Erick Sermon, Keith Murray’s Rap-Murr-Phobia (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop) looks outright like a down and dirty return to form that just doesn’t give a damn, but it’s not. With guest star Tyrese and a mention of P. Diddy, the smooth roller “Nobody Do It Better” sounds anxious to shake hands with radio while “Weeble Wobble” contains an incredibly friendly hook that could easily spawn a line dance craze followed by mega uploads — “me and my friends doing the Weeble Wobble” — to video sharing sites. Close your eyes and you can see the moody, black and white video the soulful “Do” deserves, while “Something Like a Model” woos the ladies with Junior’s sweet croon and syrupy strings. While “Model” is just good enough, the rest of the polish works beautifully and is remarkably woven in between all the chilly, unforgiving hip-hop that is Murray’s “notion for murderous poetry in motion” at its best. Not since his debut has he sounded so sure, so inspired, and filled with that “raw dog passion” that “Whatmakean***athinkdat” speaks of over Sermon’s crooked beat. Sermon and Redman show up for an excellent Def Squad reunion called “U Ain’t Nobody” and if an important part of any Murray full-length is that un-PC humor, then the he said/ho said “Never Did S***” nails it. In the end it turns out the subtitle of the album isn’t aimed at any artist getting paid with slick hits but at the Sharptons, the Jacksons and the Oprahs who look at Murray’s language and outlook as unforgivable. Looking at it that way, this “don’t hate the player, hate the game” album may be even more subversive since it refuses to be banished to the ignorable underground. You can say a lot about the controversial man who declares himself “tainted,” but you can’t say Rap-Murr-Phobia is anything but a well-crafted and fascinating menace to society. [Rap-Murr-Phobia was also made available in a clean version, with all explicit material removed.] ~ David Jeffries, Rovi

Rap-Murr-Phobia $14.38 Four years after he released the unsatisfying and scattershot He’s Keith Murray and got himself kicked off Def Jam for allegedly strangling a street team member, the rapper who can’t be controlled returned with a solid effort that finishes a very close second behind his stunning debut, The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World. With executive producer, longtime associate and brother in Def Squad, Erick Sermon, Keith Murray’s Rap-Murr-Phobia (The Fear of Real Hip-Hop) looks outright like a down and dirty return to form that just doesn’t give a damn, but it’s not. With guest star Tyrese and a mention of P. Diddy, the smooth roller “Nobody Do It Better” sounds anxious to shake hands with radio while “Weeble Wobble” contains an incredibly friendly hook that could easily spawn a line dance craze followed by mega uploads — “me and my friends doing the Weeble Wobble” — to video sharing sites. Close your eyes and you can see the moody, black and white video the soulful “Do” deserves, while “Something Like a Model” woos the ladies with Junior’s sweet croon and syrupy strings. While “Model” is just good enough, the rest of the polish works beautifully and is remarkably woven in between all the chilly, unforgiving hip-hop that is Murray’s “notion for murderous poetry in motion” at its best. Not since his debut has he sounded so sure, so inspired, and filled with that “raw dog passion” that “Whatmakean***athinkdat” speaks of over Sermon’s crooked beat. Sermon and Redman show up for an excellent Def Squad reunion called “U Ain’t Nobody” and if an important part of any Murray full-length is that un-PC humor, then the he said/ho said “Never Did S***” nails it. In the end it turns out the subtitle of the album isn’t aimed at any artist getting paid with slick hits but at the Sharptons, the Jacksons and the Oprahs who look at Murray’s language and outlook as unforgivable. Looking at it that way, this “don’t hate the player, hate the game” album may be even more subversive since it refuses to be banished to the ignorable underground. You can say a lot about the controversial man who declares himself “tainted,” but you can’t say Rap-Murr-Phobia is anything but a well-crafted and fascinating menace to society. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi

The Coast Explodes $11.98 Lord knows that the quintet has the perfect art and attitude down for its second album — the title alone promises a lot, as does the album art showing the band striking dramatic poses against a classically overwhelming West Coast sunset. This said, Mammatus are simultaneously great and a bit frustrating, and The Coast Explodes confirms this once again. Unlike a wide variety of their psych/drone/Krautrock-inspired peers, Mammatus are more open about loving prog chops and seeing what they can do with them — no sin at all, and certainly a lot of musicians have rescued and revamped approaches from the dead hand of Rick Wakeman solos and similar monstrosities. Where this works, as on the galloping midsection of the opening “Dragon of the Deep, Pt. 3 (Excellent Swordfight)” — and the title alone deserves praise — they ride a wild wave of maniacal sound that would fit in perfectly on any release by former tourmates Acid Mothers Temple, say. But there are moments throughout the album when the feeling is less utter insanity and more Nigel Tufnel explaining how his solos are his trademark (or alternately Soundgarden if they had played “Big Dumb Sex” completely straight), and while the line is thin by default it’s still present, making it hard to resist a shake of the head even when it does sound like the coast is actually blowing up into tiny pieces. This all said, the feeling of a thick, warm-sounding release from 1971 or so is conveyed perfectly in the production, and moments like the queasy drone section of “Pierce the Darkness,” shot through with a slow, zonked solo guitar melody, and the “weeble wobble” chants that help begin the far more wistful “The Changing Wind” are signs that this album comes down on the right side of things. ~ Ned Raggett, Rovi