Fisher-Price is just about to offer their Rainforest Jumperoo. It is basically a jumper for the little ones sit in while you get a few moments to yourself. The Rainforest Jumperoo has the standard bells and whistles like lights and musical toys with a few improvements over current jumpers.

First of all this one has a washable seat. How many times have you found yourself scrubbing the seat of your children’s activity seat only have it still stink or stained. The Rainforest Jumperoo has a seat that can be removed and thrown into the washer and dryer. This is huge since all kinds of liquids and dirt tent to find their way into toys like this.

The other element that makes this jumper stand out from the field is the raised toys that are attached. Most jumpers I have owned only offer toys in the immediate area for junior to play with. With the Rain Forest design there are two hanging leaves with toy for your child to grab and play with. Lastly this jumper can be folded up and stored away for travel or when company comes over and you need the floor for grownups.

Check it out here.

This week Mattel will launch BarbieGirls.com, which is “designed to be a safe place for girls to play and interact online.” BarbieGirls.com is an online community where girls can “… [have the] creative power to customize their own virtual character, design their own “room,” shop at the mall, play games, hang out and chat live with other girls.” The motivation behind BarbieGirls.com site is based on the 65 million hits Barbie.com receives each month. It is a virtual no brainier to try to drive the MySpace.com crowd to a safer friendlier place.

This site seems to be an amalgamation of MySpace.com, Yahoo’s Avatars, and a place to spend money. While all of these services already exist, they are lacking the massive name recognition of the world’s number 1 doll, Barbie. The site will no doubt be a huge success since there are few web sites out there that are designed and marketed strictly to young girls; but I see it as next to impossible to keep the bad people out.

You can see the full Web site on April 26 of this year.

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A rather innovative Japanese Web site, SF Paper Craft Company, has published an array of Star Wars ships and vehicles that can be made entirely with paper, scissors, tape and a ton of patience. The designs include Tie Fighters, AT-AT Walkers, and even a Star Destroyer. What I really like about these do it your self ships is that the markings for the Rebellion and Empire are already on the cutouts.; no adhering stickers for two hours. There are other sci-fi vehicles, for those not in tune with the force, from Star Trek and Back to the Future.

To get started; you just go to their site, click on the shi-fi ship of your choice and up comes the Adobe Acrobat file. From there you just print, cut, and tape. Viola your very own desktop Tie Fighter. The best part About this interstellar origami is that if you make mistake you can simply print off a new one.

Welcome to ToyViews.com.  Our mission is to profile toys and toy related products from all over the world.  We will be scouring the web every day for fun, innovative, and stimulating toys.  We hope to find toys that fit all three categories but we all know that there are some out there that are just pain fun and dumb :).

A little about me and why I started ToyViews.com.  I’ve been looking to start a new web site for a while now.  After looking and looking around for inspiration I realized my living room floor (or what used to be a floor) was the best place to look.  It is typically covered with mountains of toys my wife and mother have bought for my two boys.  I noticed that there are really no good web sites out there that profile toys so here we are.

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