after shock.

Getting home from NYC, especially Toy Fair, I have a little shell shock. Not many cities in the U.S. are as energized as this one with things going on everywhere and it really wears me out. But I'm home now. Back at school on my planning and I can't help but miss the craziness a little. Especially the toys....

Toy Fair this year was a great one, and a dissapointing one at the same time. I had a GREAT time talking with the Toy Growers. I found myself just wandering back to their aisle to chat with them. There are some great peeps over there like Sam from Friens with You, Heather at Wootini, and Patrick from Rocketworld. It was refreshing after so many stuffy business oriented meetings to talk with such down to earth creators. Cranium's meeting was fun too: we sat and played games the whole time!

But sadly, we weren't allowed into Toy Biz for our appointment because someone leaked their products on the web and so Toy Biz decided to cancel all their dot com appointments. Very upsetting. It didn't seem fair to punish everyone for someone else's unprofessionalism. Also, Xevoz were absent from Hasbro (but Stink will tell you all about that), and there didn't seem to be as many fresh, new products this year. But it still was great, and as always it's fun to talk with other journalists and professional toy makers. And we always learn something in the process.

Well, I better get to my real job. Our coverage will be up soon.

peas.