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Exhibitor Spotlight from Toy Fair 2025: Spin Master Part One

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Greetings my good friends, I’m back to present you with my findings from the Toy Association’s Toy Fair once again. The trade show itself ended about two weeks ago and while having attended for the PiercingMetal side of the fence, I found myself securing a number of images and vendors to add several posts here on “The Chronicles”. I’m now up to the Spin Master booth because they had a number of items that fit this sides demographic. Here we go.

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Given the scope of the offerings and my own limited background on a number of them I will keep the extended narrative light and just let you enjoy. Plus I need the break since I am also doing posts over on PiercingMetal as well. Those posts began even earlier than the ones that I am sharing here but I digress.

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The Unicorn Academy is a charming line of unicorn themed figures, unicorns and playsets. It’s based on a popular Netflix animated series. They were all so charming.

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Scenes From BroadwayCon 2025: Part One

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Recently, “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” was on point as attending press for the annual BroadwayCon, which had returned to the winter months and while originally schedule for the New York Hilton Midtown, would instead be happening at the New York Marriott Marquis right smack dab in Times Square. I’ve been attending this one since 2018 and always have managed to have a good time.

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The conventions co-founder, Melissa Anelli, leads the teams of Mischief Management and came out first as a part of the opening ceremony. We sadly learned from her that their usual host Ben Cameron would not be participating in the show which was a bit of a bummer since Ben is so fun and very engaging with the fans across all three days.

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Scenes from Travel & Adventure Show 2025 @ Javits Center (Part Two)

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Hey friends, I’m back again this morning to continue to share the findings from the recently held “Travel & Adventure Show” that took over a section of the Javits Center. As I mentioned, the New York Boat Show and the AKC Meet The Breeds were all happening at the same time and I had press badges for all three of them. It’s a lot more work but honestly can be easy to do if you moderate your time effectively. So this time around I snapped more of the pavilions than the patrons. I didn’t want random strangers seeing their photos presented and sending me privacy violations notices.

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Scenes from Travel & Adventure Show 2025 @ Javits Center (Part One)

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The Javits Center was a busy place recently with the AKC “Meet The Breeds” taking over the downstairs section while the New York Boat Show was up top on the right side of the expo floor and last but certainly not least – The Travel & Adventure Show had returned for their fourth annual happening. My last time taking a look around this one was in 2023 but that was as a guest of an exhibitor I knew. This time around I was hoping to do the exploring with a more professional vibe.

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Generally speaking, I set up my own accesses to these events well in advance but this time around I was so consumed with life in general and being media for the other two happenings that I wasn’t sure I would even be able to set aside some exploring time, but when I had a breather I walked over to the press office to express interest in a brief walkthrough.

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Scenes From Toy Insider’s “Spring Fling” 2024 @ Lavan Midtown (Part Three)

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Hello again my friends and kind readers of “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”, I’m back once more to continue along with the findings from last weeks adventure at the Toy Insider “Spring Fling” Toy Preview for 2024. It was held at the Lavan Midtown event space and brought together the industry, the influencers and the media (queue dramatic music). I’m no stranger to posting about The Toy Insider events at this point and always try to deliver the content in an engaging fashion. With this being my last of the exploring posts, it will have a little bit of everything so let’s begin with products we saw while walking around. I’ll begin with these cool Alphablocks, and the staff at this booth were giving away this cool plushie block.

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These items were from “Toss In Tens” and it reminded me a little bit of skeeball and in some sense cornhole. Great stuff if you have a little backyard space or a very expansive family room with nothing breakable around you.

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