Handcrafted Wooden Marble Run – Double

Unique old-fashioned wooden marble run imported from Europe. Two wooden balls race down the wooden track and the first one will ring the bell.

This marble run is great gift for every child. The marble run is great decoration also.

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Traditional Children’s Toys

Have you ever seen a child in a room full of the latest toys and found the child to be playing with old fashioned children’s wooden toys that were a big hit when you were young? What is it about this sight that is so comforting? Is it because the child’s wooden toy makes us feel nostalgic or is there something else at play here? In our world of plastic throw-away goods it is comforting to see lasting goods lasting. It is especially comforting to see goods which are felt to be worthy enough to be passed on from generation to generation. The latest gadget on the latest toy has not made traditional children’s wooden toys any less desirable to children, or even to adults for that matter.

Children’s wooden toys are toys which are made using a natural product as opposed to a product like plastic which is a product that we are trying to recycle but nevertheless remains a product which costs less to produce new than to recycle. If a child’s wooden toy is made from a sustainable forest that’s even better as it is actually helping out our troubled environment. This is only one of the reasons we feel better towards wood than towards plastic. There are also many emotional reasons why wooden toys feel better.

Children’s wooden toys are one of the products which have lasted centuries. The latest plastic toy has not made wooden toys become obsolete. In fact, in our world of fast technological change it is the simple design of children’s wooden toys which continues to capture the interest of children from infants and toddlers all the way to the early teen years.

Children’s wooden toys have always been popular. The first children’s toys were probably made of wood. Old fashioned children’s wooden toys are being played with today as much as the latest toy trends. Children’s wooden toys will always be popular. Children’s wooden toys are creative, pleasant to the touch, long lasting and can be painted in wonderful colors.

Petra Toys online shop is your source of traditional toys imported from Europe.

Thomas & Friends Train Cars Toys Recalled

If your kids are anything like my three boys, at some point in their life, they will undoubtedly fall under the spell of a small wooden tank engine by the name of Thomas. For those parents who are in the know, Thomas & Friends needs no introduction. Endless lengths of overpriced wooden train track and a painted wooden table designed to replicate the “countryside” is a staple in any respectable child-rearer’s home.

For the uninitiated, Thomas the Tank Engine is a blue smiling train engine who is endowed with a set of stunningly anthromorphic features, including rosy cheeks, a big smile, and (oddly enough) eyebrows. Thomas and his many friends, who include a litany of other tank engines, train cars, and a station master named Sir Topem Hat) spend their days engaging in a variety of adventures. Whether a child follows the video productions of Thomas & Friends, or just follows his/her own imagination, Thomas generally finds himself learning a good lesson or two by the end of the day.

Although the world of Thomas & Friends is generally an idyllic one, there has recently been a negative side effect of its immense popularity. The fact of the matter is that Thomas appeals mainly to very young children. Unfortunately, children of that age also tend to put small items in their mouth on a regular basis. It is for this reason that the recent recall of Thomas & Friends was necessary.

In June, 2007, Illinios based RC2 Corporation recalled 1.5 million units of the popular Thomas & Friends railway toys. These Thomas & Friends toys were allegedly covered with lead paint.

This month, July, 2007, RC2 Corporation was hit with a federal class-action lawsuit in Chicago on Tuesday that is seeking an injunction against the sale of its metal train toys.

The lawsuit is seeking a court order requiring RC2 to “cease production and distribution of all metal toys” reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission or reported in the media “to have possibly been contaminated with lead paint.”

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of consumers who have purchased the toys or received them as gifts, also is seeking a court order to notify all sellers and distributors of metal toys “to remove such toys from their shelves and to cease sale and distribution … until their safety can be established.”

A spokeswoman for RC2 issued a statement in response to the lawsuit saying, “The only items subject to our previously announced voluntary recall are the 26 wooden products listed and pictured on our Web site. They represent about four percent of total wooden railway units sold by the company domestically during recall period.”

“Though some products in our metal train toy line are similar in appearance to products in the wooden line, they are smaller in scale. None of the metal products is subject to recall. They were produced using different manufacturing and painting processes in different contract manufacturing facilities.”

The firm said in addition to replacing all recalled products returned by consumers and reimbursing them for return postage, “we are providing them with a bonus train car as a thank you for returning the recalled items.”

The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the seventh federal class-action case brought against RC2, according to a search of the federal electronic filing database. The suit also named as defendants HIT Entertainment, the London-based children’s entertainment company that licenses the Thomas & Friends railway toys; APAX Partners, the private-equity group that owns HIT; and Learning Curve Brands, Inc., the subsidiary of RC2 that markets the railway toys.

For more information about the recall, and for details of the specific products affected within Learning Curve’s Thomas & Friends™ Wooden Railway products range, and for instructions on how to return the products and obtain replacements, please go to the RC2 recall website http://recalls.rc2.com or call RC2’s Customer Service Line at 866.725.4407 between 8am-5pm CST Monday – Thursday or 8am-11am CST on Friday. For more information your rights as a consumer against a negligent manufacturer, designer, or distributor of a recalled product, contact Orange County Personal Injury Lawyer, Stephen D. Counts at (714) 851-2890 or (949) 851-0222. You may also visit Attorney Counts’ website at http://www.OrangeCountyInjury.com Stephen D. Counts is a Personal Injury Lawyer. Mr. Counts’ practice is limited to matters involving serious personal injury and wrongful death. Mr. Counts received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and received his law degree (Juris Doctor) from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he served on the editorial board of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Steve_Counts

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