| In this day in age attention spans are at an | | | | doll into a spastic attack of laughing fits. |
| all time low. Think about yourself when was | | | | Toys like this are beginning to really |
| the last time you could fully 100% pay | | | | captivate children and grab their attention. |
| attention to something or anything? I know I | | | | |
| find it difficult and with so manu | | | | Nintendo released the Wii in the fall of 2006 |
| distractions in life life becomes faster | | | | and introduced a new style of gaming that |
| paced and companies are finding better ways | | | | reacts to physical motion. When you play |
| to keep our interests. We are not the only | | | | baseball on the Nintendo Wii you actually |
| ones experiencing attention spans reduction; | | | | swing the controller like a bat and pitch the |
| our kids are finding that life at an early | | | | ball with a move of the remote control. Many |
| age moves much faster than when we were kids. | | | | toys that are not going in the direction of |
| Companies are pushing forward to add | | | | revolutionary are falling to the way side and |
| entertainment value to every toy or item made | | | | becoming less popular. Shortly it could be |
| for kids at an alarming rate. | | | | that if a toy offers only the childs |
| | | | imagination and doesn't spark interactivity |
| With the release of Webkinz Plush Pets by | | | | it may not become popular at all. Russ |
| Ganz kids are not only being entertained by a | | | | Shining Stars offer kids a chance to not only |
| physical product but also an imaginary | | | | buy a plush pet and play games online but |
| product by entering the Webkinz Virtual | | | | they can also register their very own star in |
| Online world. I remember back to when I was | | | | the galaxy. After registering their star |
| a kid and GI Joes with there rubber band | | | | they can then print out a galaxy map and look |
| spines to me seemed amazingly cool. Toys in | | | | at where their star is located in the known |
| todays world blow anything I've seen as a | | | | universe.If Webkinz and TMX Friends and |
| child away and they are only going to get | | | | Shining Stars are any indicator that |
| more elaborate over time. TMX Friends | | | | interactivity is the modern revolution for |
| release in the fall of 2007 and are the | | | | kids toys, the industry will need to find the |
| follow up to the Tickle me Extreme Elmo or | | | | best ways possible to spark creativity in |
| (TMX ELMO). TMX Friends Ernie, and Cookie | | | | interactivity in the near future. Toys |
| Monster have different triggers that are | | | | failing to follow similar suit may become |
| stimulated when a child tickles the doll. | | | | obsolete and stale and not captivate a kids |
| The TMX Friends fall to the floor laughing | | | | imagination. Short of releasing a total |
| uncontrollably when tickled by a child. | | | | virtual reality system that becomes life like |
| Different areas of the dolls have different | | | | toys are getting more and more advanced and |
| sensors which allow different reactions and | | | | closer to one on one interactivity without |
| tickling the doll multiple times sends the | | | | another human being being present. |