About "PLAY Across America"
Consumer Hands-On Experience In PLAY With The Toy Man®
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The unique group of products selected by The Toy Man® Product Guide staff featured in this project will be carefully and systematically introduced to the people in train stations, on the train itself, and even outside the train stations. This will provide a diverse range of demographics as well as the strongest level of branding recognition development like never seen before.
What creates the great value of this project is how people don't feel pitched. An individual, group, or family is carefully selected and ONE product is provided for them to use to pass the time away as they are waiting. Using a single product draws a stronger level of attention to detail by others around the person(s) with the product creating a stronger retention of memory of the experience for everyone.
When multiple products are introduced simultaneously, attention span to the products by others is reduced dramatically. By human nature, with multiple copies of same product in view at once, interest level wanes quickly. The products become more of a distraction rather than a hook that captures the attention of many for an extended period of time.
Feature Product Categories
The products selecting were evaluated from the following categories:
Toys | Games / Puzzles | Books | Infant / Toddler
( For further information on submitting your product(s) for consideration, please visit the Product Submissions section on this page. ) |
Want to Be A Star?
Pics and Videos Captured Across America Will Be Featured
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For many people in the train stations and on the trains during travel they will become a star with The Toy Man® during "PLAY Across America" via, pics and videos that will be shot and posted. These pics and videos will be available on YouTube and other sources that will be announced soon.
Trains and train stations can be quite the place to find the most perfect candid shots with a person busy at PLAY or even better for that video clip that really grabs the attention. Never know, YOU might be one of those who is a star that we will feature. |
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Just imagine your being busy at PLAY on the train or in one of the many locations of this nationwide excursion, and you get the opportunity to be one of the limited few who were selected to be featured in one or more of these pics or videos. There will even be some who will be featured in interviews as The Toy Man® queries people about their experiences with the products he is providing.
To add even greater value for the products being featured, in various cities, train stations, and on the trains themselves, The Toy Man® will be giving away products to carefully selected recipients, to help carry the branding recognition development for each product even further as the recipient shows off their product to others who may also experience PLAY with this same product! |
Product Submissions
How the products being featured in "PLAY Across America" can be submitted and selected
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Product submission is quite simple, but alas, the deadline has passed and our feature products have been selected. There is still a bright side of the situation; you can still submit products for our regular full evaluation!
No fees for product submissions or posting if a product is inducted. Best of all, a product is never evaluated in comparison with others or based upon just one or two family's opinions. |
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Simplicity is always something we all appreciate and product submission couldn't be any easier! Just go to http://www.thetoyman.com/t_product_submission.php, fill out the form, and send the products as directed. That's it!
We do our best to ensure all companies submitting products gain something from it so here's the added surprise. Your product will then have been submitted for our product evaluation to possibly become another one of those that have become a recipient of The Toy Man® Seal of Approval and possibly some of our awards! No fees whatsoever tfor product submission or posting of product induction announcement for products that pass.
Your product is not compared against other products, acceptance is based upon a product's own merits and how it fares with our strict evaluation standards. IF per chance your product does NOT pass our evaluation, a confidential package is sent to you to explain why and what modifications are needed to bring it to spec. so that it will. We do not share this or any negative information with the public. |
The S.T.E.M. Award
Where The Fruits Of Higher Education Are Given Due Recognition
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In the marketplace today, awards are a common feature that come in all shapes, forms, and functionality. It seems that there are so many awards in use today, that for many, their identity has become somewhat indistinct. The Toy Man® Product Guide has chosen to step ahead of the game and introduce a new award with more unique purpose and value that is like no other; introducing The Toy Man® S.T.E.M. Award.
* S.T.E.M. ( Science - Technology - Education - Math ) |
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The Toy Man® S.T.E.M. Award has been created to give recognition to those that have held their course in completion of graduate studies with an end result of a valuable contribution to society and/or industry needs.
Education has always been a matter of strong discussion on many levels. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math serve as the very foundation of creativity and forward development for education in today's society. The realization of every conceptual idea has come about in some part from the use of education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, whether in singular or combination application.
There is always a need for a shift to break the routine of any trend that become too familiar and repetitive. The Toy Man® S.T.E.M. Award will now serve as the force to create such a shift in the routine of awards; an emblem that represents high recognition in graduate education, well earned and prized so greatly.
Until this point in time, all awards from The Toy Man® Product Guide have been strictly to products and services that have passed the publication's strict evaluation standards. With the introduction of The Toy Man® S.T.E.M. Award, this award will enable us to give recognition for any productive contribution to society resulting from completion of graduate education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Math. |
The Toy Man® Awards At Toy Fair 2013
Not Just Prestigious and Exclusive, These Awards Are FREE! |
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There are plenty of awards yet nothing is like the prestige and honor of being a recipient of The Toy Man® Product Guide Awards. No fees or submission forms. Best of all, we invite buyers, exhibitors to join us in selecting the finalists!
A limited few will have the honor of becoming a recipient of The Toy Man® Seal of Approval Finalist Certificates, a gold embossed example of recognition. Yet there is even more to come! |
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There are those who will have gone beyond the norm; risen above the rest and been voted by our judges to be the elite and limited few recipients of The Toy Man® Seal of Approval - Recognition Award.
Hard work, good marketing, and innovation well deserving of recognition will prove its worth with such a well earned award that is like no other. An award where bragging rights didn't come easy. |
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| Our greatest experience at Toy Fair 2013 is going to be the process of giving out our exclusive as well as prestigious awards. No fees, no applications, no product submissions; just pure and unparalleled judging with no inflection of bias. (Details regarding the selection process for our awards are available in the next section.) |
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The Award Selection Process
The Toy Man® Product Guide Award Recipient Process Explained |
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The selection process for the Finalists and Winners levels the playing field for everyone, regardless of well known or unknown a company may be. It all comes down to a combination of Innovative Design, Marketability, Visual Appeal, Price Point, and of course a number of other factors as well.
The semi-finalists are judged by The Toy Man®, staff, and voluteers. The finalists are voted on by attendees, buyers and exhibitors from the show floor; (exhibitors who didn't make the cut for the semi-finalists.) |
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| It is with great pleasure that these award recipients are carefully selected. There is of course far more to the process than what you see here but it would take too much space to publish all the information. This at least gives you a basic outline of our process. Should you have any suggestions you would like to see added or other personal comments, please feel free to fill out our Contact Form at http://
www.thetoyman.com. |
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Featured Products
The Products Which Will Be Featured In "PLAY Across America" |
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It's finally that time! In this section we will feature the products that have been selected to be featured on "PLAY" Across America! It was a tough decision to make with the extensive number of products submitted yet well worth the effort.
The products will be listed by category with links to their web sites and the booth # for each company at Toy Fair. games, puzzles, toys, books, and infant/toddler products. |
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Image Gallery
Exclusive Pics and Video Clips From PLAY Across America
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Sorry, images and video clips will not begin being published until "PLAY Across America" officially begins. We thought we'd give you a little chuckle in the interim.
When you consider the number of places and people we will be seeing over the 7 days on the train and off during PLAY Across America, you can rest assured that there will be lots of candid pics and videos to view soon! |
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