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Today’s post written by Angela

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Intelliplay – www.intelliplay.com.au – are an Australian family-based business who produce, sell and distribute only toys that have been tried, tested and loved by children. Their range of toys are selected because of their educational properties, affordability, long-life, and joyfulness.

Building blocks are a staple of a child’s play, and Intelliplay have recently released their own range, Intelliplay Blox.

Constructed from natural untreated pine there are a number of designs in the range, including Intelliplay Classic BuildingBlox, and the StickyBlox, AlphaBlox, NumberBlox range which are Velcro backed and come with a plush fabric board. The printing process is a unique scratch and ink free process suited to high traffic and busy play areas, and guarantees the longevity of the product.

Intelliplay Blox will be distributed throughout all Kindergartens, pre-schools and early learning centres in Australia and New Zealand from 2010, having been selected by one of Australia’s largest school supplies companies Educational Experience. You can purchase Intelliplay Blox for your own home use from the Intelliplay website. Prices range from $19.95-$59.95.

Intelliplay charge $10.00 flat-fee delivery, Australia-wide.

Today’s post written by Angela

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It’s no secret that I have a ‘thing’ for toys. Browsing through toy shops has always been a favourite past-time of mine, and now I have kids I have a good cover story!

It’s true that there a lot of toys to be had out there – hundreds of thousands, to millions – but not every toy fulfills the promise of its marketing, and meets the true purpose of it’s creation: to be played with and enjoyed by children again and again.

Intelliplay – www.intelliplay.com.au – sell and distribute only toys that have been tried, tested and loved by children. Their range of toys are selected because of their educational properties, affordability, long-life, and joyfulness!

Intelliplay is the Australia/New Zealand source of the ultra-cool Crazy Forts ($89.95), a package of 44 geometrically shaped sticks and 25 connecting balls which can be used to create castles, rockets, tunnels, igloos, free-form sculptures and whatever your imagination inspires. Just add a sheet to turn your creation into an instant cubby! This is a wonderful toy to encourage creativity in children, and is a great activity for the whole family.

Intelliplay also stock the ingenious The House of Flying Pigs Paper Craft Animation Kits (an outrageously cheap $9.95 each!!) – pop out the creature, glue, construct, crank the handle and watch your creation come to life! -  the cult status TIPP-KICK German Soccer Board Game ($39.95) – tap the head of your metal player to make his right leg lift up and kick the ball. You can also purchase star kickers ($14.95 each) from many soccer playing nations: a must for any soccer fan!

Intelliplay are have a wonderful 50% off sale on selected products, while stocks last, including Professor Puzzle Lab Test Puzzles (now $7.98-$9.98), visually appealing 3D brain teasers in a variety of difficulty levels, and Eitech Construction Toys (now just $7.48-$39.98), ranging from basic construction of planes right through to designing and building your own solar powered helicopter!

A heads up too, on Intelliplay’s own product, Ecoblox, an environmentally friendly range of Australian Made traditional wooden building blocks, available soon from the Intelliplay site. I’ll keep you informed as news comes to hand!

Intelliplay are a sponsor of the 2009 KidStyleFile Annual Reader Survey: complete the survey and go into the draw to win 1 of 12 Crazy Forts valued at $89.95 each.

Intelliplay charge $10.00 flat-fee delivery, Australia-wide.

Today’s post written by Angela

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An update for you today on a great product we reported on in July 2008, the fabulous Crazy Forts – www.crazyforts.com.

The good news is that Crazy Forts now have an Australia/New Zealand distributor – Intelliplay – www.intelliplay.com.au – (prospective stockists take note!), and will be available in Australia from the Intelliplay website for $79.95 from late February. (In the meantime, check out some of the other beautiful products on the Intelliplay website – seriously cool stuff!)

Jenny at LMNOP presented a lovely scene featuring the Crazy Fort in the latest issue of the LMNOP online magazine. Download it free here to see the Crazy Fort in action!

Crazy Forts will be available in Australia from late February 2009 from Intelliplay. Watch this space for more updates! Intelliplay charge $10.00 flat-fee delivery, Australia-wide.