Creative Child Awards come to more Wild Creations Products

Wild Creations recently garnered more Toy Industry Awards, as Creative Child Magazine's 2011 Awards Program held a number of Wild Creations Products in high regard. Creative Child Magazine's Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by parents, educators and professionals alike. Products are not reviewed by any one person. They are reviewed by many people-the very people who purchase them.

Most noteworthy is the Product of the year award given to Flipoutz®, the interactive funwear product designed by kids for kids. Since it's inception, and most recently it's debut on the popular ABC TV show Sharktank, Flipoutz is gaining a tremendous following, showing all the signs of becoming a major hit. "Flipoutz Fever" is catching on as more stores are stocking the Flipoutz® coins & Bracelets each day. Check out the growing list of retailers on the Flipoutz Google Map.

Another new toy that has captured the imagination is Roll-Up Roads, the long-lasting, reusable roadway tape. As long as there has been toy cars, trucks, trains, & airplanes, children have often designed imaginary roadways of travel. Roll-Up Roads takes it one step further with it's tacky-back tape that can transform a tabletop into a downtown cityscape, a railway terminal or a busy jetport. And parents can rest easy knowing that the family dining table won't end up with permanent strips of tape all over. The tacky-back tapes leaves no mess, no "goo". UPDATE:Roll-Up Roads is coming to stores & on the Wild Creations website July 1st.

Take modern RC technology, lightweight & durable materials, and a spark of inspiration, and you end up with a RC Toy that will delight and amaze. You get Wild Creations RC Skybird, a remote controlled toy that flies like a real bird under your control, this years Toy of the Year in the RC Toy Category. UPDATE:Look for the RC Skybird in stores & on the Wild Creations website July 1st.

You can experience the thrill of discovery by uncovering the bones of a long lost animal ancestor with the Ice Age Excavation Kits by Geoworld, this years Preferred Choice Award winner for the Educational Science Kits category.
Encased in a block of soft chalk stone is the faithful replica bones of a Woolly Mammoth, Cave Bear, or Saber-tooth Tiger. It's your task to uncover the bones just like a real palaeontologist with the included hammer & chisel, and assemble them together into a museum quality skeleton replica.

It is our mission at Wild Creations to provide products that Inspire, Educate, & Entertain. We're proud to receive these awards, but we're equally proud to bring a level of quality to the products we provide.

DR TOY BEST PICKS BESTOW MULTIPLE TREATS (NO TRICKS!) TO WILD CREATIONS™

Awards Go To Strength Ball , Space Hopper , Hologram Chamber & Solar Airship
Myrtle Beach, SC (October 18, 2010) – This month thoughts of tricks and treats haunt parents and children alike. Dr. Toy celebrates the zany holiday with her own treat-filled list of Best Children’s Products for the year. Lucky for Wild Creations™ she awards not one but five prestigious honors to their expanding novel product line. Giant Retro Space Hopper, Hologram Chamber, Strength Ball and Solar Airship are individually recognized for a Dr. Toy Best Picks/Best 100 Children’s Products 2010 awards .

Additionally, the Strength Ball was also named to her Dr. Toy 10 Best Active Products list. Want a jolly good time for your kids,” asked Dr. Toy as she tested the Giant Retro Space Hopper, “while getting them off the couch and away from their handheld gadgets? Try one of Wild Creations British imports of active toys,” she offered. “Kids and parents will be very pleased at the assortment of Wild Creations intellectually stimulating science and nature toys for children & adults of all ages.”

Dr. Toy’s Best Picks Children’s Products award program was developed by noted play and childdevelopment authority, Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (aka Dr. Toy) as a service to consumers who desire to purchase safe, affordable, educationally oriented, stimulating new toys for children. In addition to Dr. Toy, industry judges have been wild about the 80+ kooky new products rolled out this year by Wild Creations. The company earned kudos from Tillywig Toy Awards, Parenting Media Awards, The National Parenting Center, Mom’s Choice Gold Awards and Parent Tested-Parent Approved Media on a host of products in just the last 90 days.

Listed below are reviews Dr. Toy and her testers wrote about each of the four Wild Creations award winners:

Giant Retro Space Hopper • $23.99 • Ages 10+
Dr. Toy Best Picks Children’s Products 2010
This bright orange and utterly irresistible hopper comes from the UK Science Museum. With a grownup’s help, inflate this giant ball with the enclosed foot pump. Get comfortable, hold on to the horns and bounce away! Kids use the elasticity of the space hopper to amplify their muscle power. This giant hopper expands to a whopping 31.5 inches for bigger kids.

Hologram Chamber • $8.99 • Ages 5+
Dr. Toy Best Picks Children’s Products 2010
Like something from a Harry Potter chapter, place any object in this chamber and see it appear to hover. Created by the UK Science Museum, this chamber creates an optical illusion, tricking you into thinking a reflection is the real object! Try any object and witness 3-D images appear to float.

Solar Airship • $15.99 • Ages 5+
Dr. Toy Best Picks Children’s Products 2010
On a bright sunny day take this airship kite outdoors and watch it fly. From the UK Science Museum, this cleverly designed toy doesn’t require pumps, gas, puffs or hassle! It’s so simple to use – inflates and rises outdoors due to the laws of physics, as it is easily explained in the instructions. It flies like a kite-- so hold on tightly! A tether line, 2 cable ties and controller are included.

Wild Creations, best known for its award-winning EcoAquarium™ , is eager to expand young minds with smart ways to play! The Myrtle Beach-based company is grounded in an understanding of the interconnection of the earth and the cosmos with a profound reverence for animals, plants, soil, water and air. This reverence toward life is the basis for how the company conducts business and the basis for choosing the organizations they support including The Sierra Club, The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, and the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association. Wild Creations also supports the Horry County Disabilities and Special Needs Board by providing employment opportunities to individuals with special needs. At its online store, www.wildcreations.com, customers from teachers to parents, are assured of discovering the best products and receiving the finest service before and after the sale.

WILD CREATIONS GOLD RUSH ON ECOAQUARIUMS CONTINUES WITH A MOMS CHOICE AWARD

Best Seller & Multi-Award Winner EcoAquarium™ Wins 2010 Gold

How can you judge if a product is a good bet for the whole family? Ask a Mom! That’s the idea behind the Mom’s Choice Awards that recognizes inventors and companies for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly products. Wild Creations and its Classic EcoAquarium have just been named a Gold recipient in the 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards in its Educational Product category.
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WildCreations Receives Three Tillywig 2010 Sterling Fun Awards

Here’s two phrases you’ve probably never heard in the same sentence, “science” and “insanely fun toys!”

Until now, that is. And the actual sentence would be “Wild Creations makes insanely fun science toys!” The reason for this is that the wacked-out geniuses at Wild Creations actually think that science is a whole lot of fun. And besides the thousands of kids who love them, the judges at Tillywig are apparently also in agreement because Wild Creations just received three Tillywig 2010 Sterling Fun Awards.

In order to be selected as a Tillywig award winner, a product must be determined to have high entertainment and/or educational value. Tillywig's awards program provides retail buyers, news media,parents, and consumers with product information and reviews of superior children's products available in today's marketplace. After extensive testing, they bestowed three different awards – Sterling Fun, Brain Child and Sterling Fun -- to children’s products currently on specialty toy store shelves. (Read More)

WILD CREATIONS™ WINS DOUBLE HONORS

150+ Franchisees Wild About Company & Best Seller EcoAquarium™

Learning Express stores, the nation’s largest educational toy retailer, stock their shelves coast to coast with the most innovative and captivating products for today’s youth market. At last month’s annual convention, they went wild over one of their newest toy vendors and its best selling product – Wild Creations and its Eco-Aquarium. (Read the Full Article Here)

MR. DAD thinks we're alright!

The Mr. Dad Seal of Approval and the GreatDad Recommends program recognize products and services that support our mission: giving men the resources, tools, and information they need to be the fathers they want to be and that their families need them to be. We are pleased to announce that FIVE of our soon-to-be-released products have been granted their seal of approval.

Mega Bubble, giant bubble creator

Oh, come on. You've always wanted to make a bubble big enough to contain a person, haven't you? Well, now's your chance. The Mega Bubble bubble creator will let you do exactly that. The kids will have a ton of fun trying to encapsulate you, and you'll marvel at just how far an incredibly thin wall of soap film can stretch. Good, clean, entertainment for the whole family (but keep the bubbles out of everyone's mouth). Ages 3+.

Hologram Chamber
We're not quite sure what makes the Hologram Chamber quite so intriguing, but it'll definitely get everyone's attention. Drop in just about any object and ask some unsuspecting person to grab it. You and the kids will have a lot of fun trying to fool each other. And once they're in bed, you'll have even more fun on your own--trying to figure out how it works. We're still a ways away from R2D2's holographic projection of Princess Leah (from Star Wars), but it's still an amazing illusion. Ages 3+.

Radio-controlled Rattle Snake
Let's start with a warning. Be very careful who's around when you and the kids fire up this creepily accurate replica of the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. Even when you know what it is, you'll still be momentarily freaked out when you see it zig-z

agging around your house, tongue flickin in and out, rattling its tail. So expect to peel mom (or anyone with a heart condition) off the ceiling if you don't warn her before letting the kids loose with this baby. Ages 5+.

Buzzwire Bomb
There may be some scientific lessons to learn here, but all our reviewers could talk about was the fun aspect. The Buzzwire Bomb can be used by just about anyone in the family--especially those who like to be scared. The principle is similar to the old Operation game--but the baloon explosions happen compeltely randomly. So while a steady hand might help you in the short run, it won't keep your heart from skipping a beat when you finally get that POP!!! Ages 5 and up.

Wallace & Gromit Water Rocket
Judgment call. The Water Rocket is clearly labeled as "not a toy." But it's so much fun that you'll want to share it with the whole family. You'll need a big, empty area and a water supply. Depending on the ratio of water, pressure, launch angle, and the proximity of obstacles such as houses and windows, you can send the rocket soaring up to 200 feet! What's especially nice about the Water Rocket is that it's something dads and teens can (and will actually want to) do together--and that's a very rare thing. Definitely keep away from small children.