toy fair 2010
Barbie becomes a computer engineer at the 2010 Toy Fair
A brand new Barbie doll has made her debut at the 2010 Toy Fair in New York this year – computer engineer Barbie! Mattel conducted a vote among Barbie fans on Facebook and Twitter, asking them to help decide what Barbie’s should do for her 125th job. There were four choices – architect, computer engineer, environmentalist, news anchor and surgeon. Computer engineer and new anchor received the most votes, so her 125th job will be as a techie and her 126th as an anchor. A price hasn’t been announced for either the computer engineer or news anchor Barbie, but Mattel did confirm that both dolls would be released in Fall 2010.
The computer engineer Barbie looks like, well, take a look to your right. She’s bespectacled, clad in a multicolor shirt that looks like it’s showing a visual representation of a social network with binary code in the background, awkwardly carrying a laptop on her arm and armed with a phone and bluetooth earpiece. She’s also wearing a white vest with blue collar and magenta piping that would look better on a fast food attendant than a computer technician.
Honestly, I think she looks more like a telemarketer than a computer technician…
Mega Bloks Halo Wars toys on display at 2010 Toy Fair
LEGO competitor Mega Bloks showed off the company’s rather impressive line of Halo Wars Mega Blok toys at the New York 2010 Toy Fair. As Kotaku points out, the display not only showed off all of the Mega Bloks Halo-themed sets, it also featured a life-sized replica of Halo‘s Master Chief made out of Mega Bloks. Nice.
If you purchase enough Mega Bloks sets, you could probably build your own Master Chief. It’d probably be much easier, and cheaper, to just go with the 18 standard Halo Wars Mega Blok sets. Each set comes with the blocks necessary to build equipment, vehicles and buildings from Halo Wars and figures of soldiers or Covenant aliens. They’re safe for kids ages eight and up, so if you’ve always wanted to build a Halo model but didn’t think you had the necessary artistic abilities, go ahead and splurge. The official Mega Bloks Halo Wars site lists all the available sets…
Fast Finger Keyboards have ASAP, BRB and LOL keys
I don’t like to encourage text message speak, but if you rely on it to get through your daily emails and instant messages, you may want to pick up the Fast Finger keyboard that’s one of the highlights of New York’s 2010 Toy Fair. You can even buy one right now for $22.99.
The keyboard was created with children and “hunt and peck” typists. You plug it into your computer’s USB port, and can instantly start using it. If you haven’t learned how to type yet, or have problems with standard keyboards, you can set it up so you the keys correspond to the white letters on them, meaning the keyboard is in alphabetical order. If you have, you simply hit a button and it will turn into the standard QWERTY keyboard and the keys correspond to the red letters. You switch back and forth easily by pressing the F button above the F5/FYI key.
The most eyecatching features of the Fast Finger Keyboard are the shortcuts. Looking at the image above you can easily see there are internet home and email shortcuts and the shortcuts to control any DVDs, Blu-ray discs or music you could be listening to. But it’s the shortcuts below, combined with the F1 through F12 keys that are unique. Each key corresponds to a different instant message acronym…
An Amanda Evert doll will cost you $160
Video game collectors with quite a bit of cash to spare should start saving up for the Tonner Doll Company’s rendition of Tomb Raider‘s Amanda Evert. The Amanda Evert doll, which you can see in an image at the right taken by Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo, made its debut at the 2010 Toy Fair at the Javits Convention Center in New York.
Amanda Evert, which will cost $160 once released and isn’t the first Tonner Tomb Raider doll. There are four other dolls inspired by Tomb Raider, and they’re all different variations of Lara Croft. There was an exclusive, limited edition, Classic Beauty Lara Croft, a $169.99 Tonner Direct exclusive, Full Throttle Lara Croft, a $189.99, Tonner Direct exclusive, Let’s Go Off-Road Lara Croft and a basic, $124.99 Tonner Direct exclusive Lara Croft doll.
Kotaku also reports that the Tonner Doll Company display also had Prince of Persia prototype dolls of the Prince and Tamina on display…















