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Unboxing The “Sweet Suite at Home” 2021 Swag Box

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It was only a few weeks ago that I attended the second-ever “Sweet Suite @ Home” which is the virtual offshoot of the Toy Insider’s popular toy industry event the “Sweet Suite”. Click the hyperlinked text for the coverage piece. With the pandemic still causing issues with larger public gatherings, the folks at the Insider determined that it was best to do this virtually one more time. This event was preceded by the first “Holiday of Play @ Home”. When the event has passed, the participants are sent a gift box and with unboxing clips a hot practice these days I have offered up thoughts and a bit more as I unbox the goodies for our Official YouTube Channel. Take a look.

Piercing Ken Thoughts: So there you have it, a whole lot of cool stuff and items that I hope you were making some notes about for your own shopping lists. I have to say that I enjoy doing these kinds of clips and if I end up at their “Holiday of Play” event in the coming months that I will do another one. I hope I can work it out because it will not be virtual and is instead back to being an in-person affair. There are so many people that I miss from this group and the vendors that it will be some proper medicine for sure. That’s all I have to say about this so I will see you next time around. Keep safe out there since this isn’t over by a long shot.

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Unboxing The “Holiday Of Play at Home” 2020 Swag Box

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It wasn’t so long ago when we covered the annual “Holiday Of Play” event that our friends over at The Toy Insider/Pop Insider host. Much like this year’s “Sweet Suite”, the event was also done in a virtual space and a refresher of the adventure can be found HERE. Much like the Sweet Suite, when the event is over you are given a box of goodies and I am once again unboxing the swag in the video you will find below. Enjoy.

Now let’s dissect the content in photos as well for good measure. It begins with a box 🙂

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Unboxing The “Sweet Suite at Home” 2020 Swag Box

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Hey there my friends, so we recently attended the first-ever, Toy Insider “Sweet Suite @ Home” which as you might have surmised what a virtual event and replaced the annual in-person happening The Sweet Suite. My event overview can be perused by clicking HERE. This post continues the awesome that was started in that narrative and finds me digging into the contents of the swag box which is usually loaded to the hilt with coolness. Let’s unbox.

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One of the first nice surprises in the box was this wonderful stuffed Blue from the very popular younger childrens program “Blues Clues”.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

This unique game let’s you see things upside down and trust me its a wild sort of visual.  This game must be a blast.

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There are always wonderful  products coming from the fine folks at Crayola.  Let them help you have an artastic life.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

Here’s one of the most iconic toy items ever, the famous Slinky.  I had this as a kid of course and even one that was made of plastic but I don’t remember liking that all too much.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

One of my favorite discoveries at Toy Fair was the Scooby Doo stuff from Playmobil. This blind bag contains one of the ghostly figures that our intrepid team would be trying to dispense on the classic show. This line is a must have for sure. Even for the older collectors who remember the show with fondness.

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A miniature-sized take on the popular Hatchimals.

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I love the Stikbot stuff and mostly based on the cool animations I have seen people create with them.  I’d love to do something like this but I barely have the patience required to do stop motion things today.

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A cute game which is a take on the popping the bubble wrap.  This one likely will not make much of a mess either.  I still love popping the real deal packing stuff though.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

Another one of the things that’s right up my alley.  Action figures that help spark the creativity.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

This charming product is perfect for the youngest of the family circle.  Magnetic soft pieces will allow for endless fun I think.

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the toy insider, sweet suite at home 2020

Below you’ll find my unboxing video which while recorded before these photos were snapped, was not uploaded straight away as there was not an Official Channel for The Chronicles until some months afterwards. It’s here for use now and I hope you will enjoy the video and give it a like and leave a topical comment as well. We’d love for you to subscribe.

I’d like to thank the Team at the Toy Insider for having us at their event once again and extra kudos to all the vendors who stockpiled this box. Some links down below will let you learn more.

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Official: https://stikbot.toys/

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Unboxing The Toy Insider “Sweet Suite” 2016 Schwag Box

Over the summer I attended my first-ever “Sweet Suite” which is an event that is set up by the fine folks at Toy Insider.  I had met them at this years American International Toy Fair thanks to our good friend in media Mr. Skeleton Pete. Shortly after the event, this massive box arrived and I figured it would be fun to do one of those “unboxing” posts, even though I know this stuff is better suited for a YouTube.com channel.  I opted to use the Chronicles of Piercing Ken for this post based on the event and the contents of said box being more suited to my folks with kids readership so here we go.

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Okay so before I begin I will stress that this is NOT all of the stuff that was in the box. It was massive as you can see and packed to the brim. No complaints on that at all so here we go with something adorable called “Twozies”. They come care of the makers of Shopkins.

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