Have A Safe and Fun Halloween from the Toy Guyz!

We just wanted to wish everyone out there a safe and fun Halloween. A lot of communities are not having trick or treat night on the actual Friday date so there will probably goblins at your doors about every night this week depending on where you live. Have fun kids and parents educate your children on Halloween safety. Here are a few tips to make this Halloween a little safer.

• Carry a flashlight.
• Walk, don't run.
• Try to stay on sidewalks.
• Obey traffic signs.
  
• Stay in familiar neighborhoods
• Carry only flexible swords, knifes and props.
• Approach only houses that are lit.
• Stay away and don't pet animals you don't know.

Happy Halloween from the Toy Guyz and the staff at Pure Imagination!

The Bellefonte Museum and Pure Imagination present Timeless Toys Exhibit.

Hi Guys,
You don't want to miss this one! The Toy Guyz have put together a wonderful toy exhibit along with the Bellefonte Museum for the holiday season. We are really excited about this because it not only features our reproduction toys but authentic toys that span several decades. This is the real deal for kids and grown-ups alike! Please stop by and enjoy these wonderful toys and let the Bellefonte Museum know what a wonderful job they are doing!
--Rhett

Exhibition: Timeless Toys

In partnership with Pure Imagination toy store
Exhibit dates: November 8^th through December 31^st

Special Victorian Christmas Open House
Saturday and Sunday, December 13 and 14^th, 10 to 6 pm

Free “Come meet Santa” party from 3 to 6 pm,
Music, Treats, and Santa,
Sunday, December 14^th

Holiday Exhibition: Timeless Toys

They don’t make them like they used to, but they still make many of them!! Timeless toys, retro games and unforgettable experiences come back to life at the holiday exhibit at the Bellefonte Museum for Centre County. The show provides happy memories to parents and grandparents and new adventures in play for children!

What will you see? Exceptional toys loaned by local collectors will be on exhibition including antique and classic cars, dolls trains, boats as well as new reproductions of classics. Classic Playhouses, furniture, stuffed animals, cars, metal robots and classic board games will all be included. Some of the toys are still made in the USA and even a few in Pennsylvania like Tiddley Winks, Jacks, pick-up-sticks, yo-yo’s and classic sport peg games in a metal boxes by Channel Craft Company, Charleroi, PA. Log Building Sets by Roy Toy of Maine are the ORIGINAL Lincoln Logs and are still made by the same company. The Holgate Company of Bradford, PA has been making toys in PA since the early 1800’s! And Golden Books are printed in the USA. Crayolas are still made in PA!

Guest Curators: The Toy Guyz, Rhett Ashley Walsh & Marc Tressler, own "Pure Imagination." They have been toy collectors since childhood and found the business a way to maintain time and energy in their life-long interest. They especially like classic and retro toys and sell reproductions in their store.

Further Information: Pat House, 949 413 5440 or prhouse3@yahoo.com,
Private events welcome.

The Toy Guyz Have Found A Really Great Halloween Pop-Up Book!

From Publishers Weekly
In this light bite of spine- tingling fare created by Sendak, Yorinks (Hey, Al) and Reinhart (Encyclopedia Prehistorica)-sort of a dark twist on Are You My Mother?-a mischievous boy addresses the title question to some unmaternal characters. Sendak's quintessential black-haired boy (with a strong resemblance to Mickey), wearing blue PJs and a red cap, wanders into a haunted house and naively calls, "Mommy?" Stylized, softened characters from Nosferatu and Lon Chaney creature features unfold in 3-D to menace the child, but the boy might as well be saying, "Trick or treat?", because he pulls pranks on everyone. A tall Frankenstein's monster gets ready to stomp on him; in a gatefold at the right-hand side of the spread, the disarming toddler jerks the bolts from the startled monster's neck. On a brick roof, the boy surprises a werewolf and a green goblin; the gatefold reveals the boy yanking down the Wolf Man's jeans to reveal silly boxer shorts, while the goblin giggles. In Reinhart's neatest engineering feat-a spinning dowel-and-string contraption-the not-so-harmless boy spins the white wrappings off an Egyptian "mummy." The title is the book's only word until the conclusion, when the Bride of Frankenstein at last replies to the child's question. Although the illustrious creators' do not appear until the back cover, readers cannot miss Sendak's signature graphic style. These gags are not too serious, but the suspenseful setups pointedly suggest humor's power over fear.

Be sure to stop by Pure Imagination and get your copy of Mommy? or order it from our website at www.PureImaginationToys.com.