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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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[Editor's note: As he did in 2011, Rob Harris (aka, whistleblower) is sending short reports from Spielwarenmesse, the International Toy Fair taking place in Nürnberg, Germany February 1-6, 2012. I forgot to help him set up placeholder entries in the BGG News system and he reports that connectivity is terrible, so I'm running this first item sent by email under by own name. –WEM]
Greetings from Nuremberg, the home of the world's biggest toy fair. You can find everything here from model railways to fancy dress costumes to (of course) board games. New games and big announcements will come during the week, but Tuesday was set-up day, with everybody frantically building stands and getting settled.
Afterwards, it was straight to the Toy Fair awards ceremony. Special congratulations to HUCH! & friends, which won the "teenager and family" category with its Talat board game from designer Bruce Whitehill.
As usual the ordinary children on stage stole the show, disrupting the perfectly choreographed presentations. The most talked-about toy nomination in the baby/infant category was a Fisher Price device to protect an iPhone when a baby is playing with it!?! There really is everything imaginable at Toy Fair. [Editor's note: You can see the Laugh & Learn Apptivity Case here, along with the nominees in all the categories. –WEM]
The real fun and work starts tomorrow...
Hive designer John Yianni – with whom Rob Harris is traveling – sets up the Gen42 Games booth
Hurrican prepares to have retail reps feel the same bits in Dr. Shark over and over and over again – okay, hopefully not
The USS Enterprise hovers over a Star Trek Catan banner at the Kosmos booth
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Hive designer John Yianni – with whom Rob Harris is traveling – sets up the Gen42 Games booth
Hurrican prepares to have retail reps feel the same bits in Dr. Shark over and over and over again– okay, hopefully not
The USS Enterprise hovers over a Star Trek Catan banner at the Kosmos booth
