An Inside Look at the 2018 Toy of the Year Awards

Possibilities are endless with Antsy Pants™ Build & Play Kits, featuring durable poles and Snap and Click™ connectors to ensure your structure stays strong. Antsy Pants Build and Play Kits and Covers are designed to nurture little minds to imagine big. Build your structure and choose a cover, or create your very own build- play is limitless with Antsy Pants!

Circuit Conductor helps kids develop a love of science! Build circuits with 12 different electrical function blocks and special insulated wires to unlock new challenges through progression. The free app teaches kids about electricity through interactive games like scanning circuits to learn more and view the current electrical flow in real time!

Fuzzy Flyers are toys that get kids moving! These plush characters use intelligent sensors that react to your actions (like a TAP, SHAKE, or TOSS) with hilarious phrases. Every Fuzzy Flyer also comes pre-loaded with two unique games that uses the action sensing tech to encourage teamwork, activity, and social interaction.

The History Makers Puzzle Block Set is a 30-piece wooden puzzle block set with 6 sides of play. With this set, children will not only learn the alphabet and numbers, but will explore history and learn self-leadership concepts in a fun and engaging way. Additionally, this set includes a fun mini history booklet, a self-leadership activity guide, two playful and colorful African American History tribute puzzles, and a puzzle of Bevy & Dave, the Self-Leadership Gurus.

Bring the phenomenon of escape rooms home for the whole family! Players work together using skill, strategy and luck to complete three tasks. Find the keys, solve the puzzles, and set the “captured” player free of the master belt timer. If all tasks are not solved in time, that player stays captured, everyone loses and time to play again.

smART sketcher allows children and adults to transform photos taken from their smart devices into a sketch. By using the free smART sketcher app, photos are filtered and transferred via Bluetooth to the projector. Practice letters and writing with available expansion packs complete with step-by-step instructions.

WeCool™ is a New Jersey-based global designer and manufacturer of innovative, top-quality and cool toys, crafts, molding and slime-like compounds, and more. Founded in 2016 by CEO Jeff Osnato and COO Ross Alber, both toy industry veterans, the company owns, operates and manages all of its vertical and horizontal production, packaging, export, and distribution processes. WeCool produces product under the Compound Kings™, Bobble Bitz™ and Spinzy™ brand names.