The 2011 Annual Toys Guide from Option consommateurs and Protégez-Vous offers more than 300 games and toys, including 209 new ones. A good vintage it seems!
The 2011 Toys guide is a must for planning your purchases of games and toys, especially with Christmas coming up. It's a good investment to make when you know that games and toys are still quite expensive and if they don't work well, break easily or are uninteresting, it's really too expensive!
The 46-page color magazine presents games and toys by category: toddler, 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year old, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 10 year old, teens and adults and CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Each toy is en titled to a description including the price, a score out of 6 and very relevant comments. The Seals of Excellence from past years are clearly identified, which makes it easier to spot favorites that will therefore have a guaranteed success with the children you want to spoil. Note that this year's edition pays particular attention to the packaging and above all to the over-packaging of products, a real scourge as we realize at every Christmas or children's party!
117 families (a total of 243 children) tested theseproducts for 2 weeks and the results of their tests are presented to us each year. In fact, every toy is rated by at least 7 families before collecting the data presented in this guide.
Like every year, we present seals of excellence and trash prizes, that is to say the 6 games or toys that are considered superior to the others on several criteria. It should also be noted that 110 games or toys obtained a rating of 6, the highest rating in the evaluation.
Seals of Excellence
Day and Night, $30
Patience games for ages 2 1/2 to 6From 3 years old, the game offers 48 problems of 4 levels of difficulty where the child must reproduce the image he sees.
Panic Tower!, $34
Games of skill for ages 6 and upPlayers take turns drawing a card and do the indicated action, e.g. add a block on the pink space of the game board, move a tower from the blue space to the yellow space, etc. Whoever knocks pieces off the game plan while performing their action loses the round.
Finger paint / For little ones / Footprints, $30
Crafts for ages 3 to 6Painting set on your finger. According to the instructions, the child completes the illustration by applying his fingerprints or by drawing on it with his fingers.
Wazabi, $25
Board games for ages 8 and upPlayers take turns rolling their dice, which dictate how many cards they draw, how many dice theygive their opponents and if they can play one of their cards that will allow them to advance in the game or harm an opponent.
You can buy this game in our online store.
Mont-à-mots Singeries, $25
Board games for ages 5 to 10Players take turns spin the arrow wheel, which tells them whether to make their opponents guess the word card by miming silently or with sounds, or by answering “yes” or “no” to the questions asked.
You can buy this game in our online store.
Jaipur, $25
Strategy games for ages 12 and upPlayers must accumulate commodity cards, sometimes by bartering camels, to then sell them at the market to obtain goods tokens at the best price.
You can buy this game in our online store.
Trash price
FurReal friends / Kittens petit pas de Lulu, $30
Pretend play and dolls for ages 4-6Ephemeral interest. The children played with the kitten a lot, then left him after a few days.
Crazy Forts!, $50
For ages 5 to 869-piece plastic construction set. Some kids liked it a lot, others got discouraged because the structures were constantly falling apart.
I'm interested / Youth / How does electricity work?, $40
Educational games for ages 8 to 14ansSet for carrying out 88 experiments on the theme of electricity. Fourteen experiments out of 88 do not work and some may cause injury.
The Toy Guide 2011is on sale everywhere for $8.95. It is possible to subscribe to the electronic edition of Protégez-Vous and have access at the same time to previous editions.
