![]() Bloxx Toys is an online toy and game store that offers a variety of high-end and quality toys unlike anything available on the Canadian Market. The great advantage of online shopping and buying toys and games online is that it is much more accessible, less time consuming and cheaper than going into a mall, retailer or physical toy store in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal or any other city in Canada (especially when you have active kids to take care of). The rest of Provinces get small partially subsidized shipping costs. Located in Ontario, Canada, we offer Tax Free Prices and Free Shipping for all our Ontario and Quebec Customers on all orders Over $100. We carry in our stock a lot of active, unique and hard to find toys, Lego compatible Building Blocks, Kids Board Games, Puzzles, Dolls, Stuffed Animals, Arts & Crafts, Cars, gear and infant toys such as rattles, cuddly soft toys and stuffed animals,Gifts for every birthday, and holiday. We prefer to focus our efforts on handcrafting wooden block toys that we love to make, and that our customers love enough to actually buy.Bloxx Toys is a Canadian Toronto Online Toys Store that specialize in educational and learning toys and games for children from birth age and up. If you want to actually buy any of the blocks listed above - maybe try getting them second-hand on eBay or Amazon. So there you have it: our top 10 failures and one honorable mention. It was ambitious! It was beautiful! It was odd! It was also our most costly toy to make, as well as the most money we’ve ever lost on a set. Plus One Bonus Honorable Mention Discontinued Toy! When the trend line on the Antic Ants dipped below 10 sets a year - we kissed our beloved ants good-bye. But many times, mega-popular toys go through a maddening boom-and-bust cycle. (See Sudoku blocks, above.)įor over 25 years, people itched to get their hands on these. We want to stay ahead of the curve, not behind it. As designers and creative people, we need to push ourselves. So why quit a good thing? Because we wanted to challenge ourselves and our customers with a more contemporary Christmas design. Our customers loved them, too - these were perennial best-sellers. We loved the design, the type, and the delightful Christmas tree illustrations. But I want you to make them so that other people at least have the option of buying them.” However: we can’t stay in business making blocks that people want to buy in theory. To paraphrase one angry emailer: “I don’t want to buy these. This is a set people love, but don’t love enough to buy. You could say that the Presidential block set didn't win the popular vote. When sales tanked during and after the cantankerous 2016 election, we couldn’t justify continuing this set. We all knew this one had to come to an end. Dare we say it? Their days were, uh, numbered. This was our very first number and math block set. We’re keeping the cool Uncle Goose logo they designed for us, though. ![]() Now, we’re going back to our comfort zone with a people-forward approach. House Industries pushed us out of our comfort zone with a design-forward approach. Inconsistent sales scare us, so we won't be revisiting this set. And wouldn't you know it? As soon as we stopped making it, people asked for it. But sales slid, and we couldn’t justify the setup and labor costs on this visually spectacular set. If sales were steady, we’d continue to make them. We loved our collaboration with Invisible Creature on making this ambitious block set. They were too much work, for far too little reward. What’s not to like? It turns out the elves in the Uncle Goose toy shop hated making the grooves in the Groovie blocks. Bright colors, mathematical equations, numbers, and shapes. Who knew there weren’t enough budding Egyptologists in the world to support making this marvelous toy? We did deep research, then vastly overestimated the appeal. Can you spell D-U-D? We can, but prefer not to. ![]() Even we lost interest in playing our own puzzles. We aren’t making these toys anymore.īy the time we designed and tested the our Sudoku blocks, worldwide interest in Sudoku diminished. Don’t cry.įailure is part of the creative process. If you see your favorite toy on this list - don’t call. If even one of the two criteria isn’t in place, we stop making those blocks. Other people love them enough to actually buy them.We love them and want to continue making them.At Uncle Goose, we have two simple criteria for making our toys:
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