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D5 Wednesday, February 21. 1990 The Pittsburgh Press Movies sparking new toys on the block SAN SBMaSi man )T1 fm is 4ir X. Sylvan Learning Centers'" can help you and your child actually look forward to report cards. From reading to math, our programs are designed to help improve your child's performance in school. AS it takes is a couple of hours a week with one of our caring, fj Sylvan Learning Center.

Helping kids do better IVW Sylvan Learning Corporation i 5 PITTSBURGH CENTERS FOX CHAPEL MONROEVILLE NORTH HILLS POINT BREEZE UPPER ST. CLAIR 621-1788 SLU-iiccc Statewide Search By Richard Harrington NEW YORK On 23rd Street, 20,000 buyers are doing their Christmas' shopping at the American International Toy Fair. The annual trade show, where manufacturers exhibit new products about 6,000 this I year, winds up today. No matter where buyers look they miss the marketing tie-ins with 'movies and television shows. The vehicle that many are hoping will become this year's multi-generational; hit, thereby Spinning, off dozens of related products, is.

Disney Studio's "Dick starring Warren Beatty and' Madonna, due for release in June, i Other such movies under way are "Archie" and "Richie Rich" -(the latter played by Fred Savage); "Cap-' tain America" (opening in April and suiting Matt Salinger, J.D.'s son); an animated "Jet-sons," due this summer, and "Flint-stories' in 1992. I "Days of Thunder," the stock-car-racing film starring Tom Cruise and scheduled for the fall, is being preceded by Tyco's' racing set and Matchbox's race cars, transport I truck and drag-strip-racing set. Speaking of spinning wheels, some feel that's what the toy industry is continuing to dd. After a record SO percent wholesale gain in 1984, it has experienced a fifth straight year of mostly flat Estimated retail sales in 1989 vm J13.4 billion, up 3.4 percent from thi previous year, unless sales in which case it was a 7.9 "percent growth. Though there doesn't seem to be any mega-hit on the horizon for 1990, there is the prospect of a new mega-market Eastern Europe, where 365 million ex-communists represent both a quality-hungry market and a source of inexpensive labor.

Dolls Like Nintendo, Mattel's Barbie has been compared with Mike Tyson, but there's no Buster Douglas on this fashion doll's $400 million-a-year i Just last year, Hasbro's Maxie joined Jem in that great dollhouse in the sky. At 31, Barbie is 'still undefeated and indefatigable. I Among the many new lines this year: Dance Magic Barbie (and usually Our 2nd Decade Take part in the excitement and glamour ot a State Pageant leading to the title ot MISS TEEN ALL AMERICAN. Win fame, fortune and great prizes! MISS TEEN ALL AMERICAN travels all over the country. Associated Press GO FOR IT! Send a brief bio, a recent photo your name, address, date of birth and phone number to: MISS TEEN ALL AMERICAN DEPT.

603 Schrader Avenue Wheeling, West Virginia 26003 or by FAX 1-304-242-8341 ENTRY DEADLINE March 2, 1990 1-304-242-4900 At New York toy fair, Ashley Walton, 6, of Philadelphia plays with Kenner's Cool Cuts Kara, a doll with replaceable hair that can be cut and styled. AGES 13 thru 19 IM have signed with major agencies and TV stars and international models Many of our winners enjoy careers as FOOD PLUS The Pittsburgh Press Cl gppttatr spa up winner tottth VIAMft.rr8 TSIWV tvom film's offbeat characters: Of 14 figures, two are good (Tracy and his sidekick Sam Catchem), while the rest are villains like Itchy, Mumbles, Pruneface, Flattop and the faceless Blank). Wheels and Deals This is the silver anniversary of the best-selling Mighty Tonka Dump Truck, available in a special silver edition, as well as the standard yellow. Tonka's newest line is the small R.P.M.S (Rapid Performance Machines) that accelerate and do stunts out of hand- or auto-wound launchers. For years, Galoob had dominated the world of miniatures, and its Micro Machines line has expanded with Micro Lights (car with illuminated head and tail lights), Super Micro Lights (buses and campers), noisy Lighted Sound Cars, and Triple Siders (with a Micro Machine housing a miniature and, in turn, being housed in a larger car).

Mattel's Hot Wheels line has added Convertables, which change their appearance, color and form in water, working Hot Watches, car-shaped watches that can snap off of the wrist to be raced; and Line Racers, miniature cars with electronic eyes than can follow any contrasting line-chalk on blacktop, black tape on a sidewalk-thus allowing kids to trace their own courses. (The Washington Postdistributed by LA Times-Washington Post News Service.) Model Collection, which features look-alike dolls of models Cheryl Tiegs, Beverly Johnson and Christie Brinkley. New dolls abound: Magic Nursery (Mattel) does not have its sex determined until it is dipped in water, J. Sparkles (Mattel) now has a little sister, Baby Love Lites, who does just that when she's kissed or fed; Mandi (Galoob) sings, talks and eats; Baby Cheer Up (Playskool) can go from a frown to a smile, and from tears to good cheer, Hush Little Baby (Tonka) cries until she's soothed, and has mouth, cheeks and eyes that move as she noisily sucks; Cool Cuts Kara (Tonka) has cutaway hair. All in the game Milton Bradley has unveiled the Gorbachev board game, in which the Soviet leader cuts through red tape and helps players track down Western-style luxury items like bluejeans and VCRs, Japanese cameras and French perfume.

And here's the word on word games: Sniglets (Games Gang) is based on Rich Hall's wordplaying, and features words you can't look up in the dictionary because they're made up; Read My Lips (Pressman) uses unspoken, mouthed words (this game should be easy for hearing-impaired people); In Other Words (Spokedena) is a game calling for paraphrases of everyday sayings and well-known titles; Claim to Fame (Parker Bros.) has you trying to get teammates to say five famous things about someone through pantomime, drawings or nonspecific verbal clues; Hugger-muggers (Huggermuggers) is a one-letter-at-a-time combination of Trivial Pursuit and Hang Man that was a regional hit last winter and is just now making it into the mass market. Among the other new games, these stood out: Noteability (Tiger), which is name that tune; and play it too, thanks to a 17-note tiny baby grand; March Madness (Avalon Hill), the first board game based on the NCAA basketball tournament; The Evolution Game (Intromarket), based on Darwin's evolutionary scale; Mafiosi (Intromarket), a survival game set in a 1931 New York characterized by extortion, murders and shootouts, with the object to become the Supreme Don. Action Figures Despite all of his changes in size over the past 25 years, Hasbro's G.I. Joe is as much the hardy perennial on the action figure front. Joe's also had more frequent, and effective, competition, most recently from Playmate's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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