Holiday Toys

What makes The Sims 3 Collectors Edition different or better than the Sims 2?

Explore the ever-changing neighborhood-and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors' homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard, explore the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more. Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more. Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you've chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?

Everyone can customize everything-design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims' personalities. Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.

Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards. Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more. Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims' destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.

The Collectors Edition comes with the following:

* The Sims 3 game
* Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
* Exclusive European Sports Car Download
* New The Sims 3 theme music
* Prima Tips & Hints Guide
* $10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store

It's due out June 2nd, so pre-order it today to be sure to have it at the earliest possible moment.

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Elmo Live is going to be one of the hottest toys this holiday season. For the first time ever, Elmo's mouth moves in such a way as to make him actually appear to be speaking. His head bobs back and forth as he speaks, and his mannerisms are right on the mark. Elmo waves his arms, sits, stands, and even crosses his legs while telling stories and jokes, singing songs and playing games. Children can start the fun with a squeeze of Elmo's foot, tummy, back or nose. Requires 6 AA batteries, which come included with the toy.

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This limited edition set is based on the popular novels by Stephenie Meyer, as seen in the Twilight Movie. Limited to only 3,000 pieces, this is sure to be a must have for any Twilight fan. These are high quality costume replicas, and come with an authentic autographed post card by Peter Facinelli (Dr. Cullen). The set includes: Edward Wristcuff, Alice's Choker, Rosalie's Necklace, Esme's Bracelet, and Carlile's Ring. They all come in a display jewelry case with the Cullen Crest.

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This animatronic, life-size baby dinosaur stands over 2 and a half feet tall, and more than 3 feet long, comes to 'life' with realistic sounds and motions. It responds to your voice and touch, makes roaring, laughing, munching, stomping, and burping sounds. The tail, head, eyes, mouth, and horns move. There are 4 different adventure-themed tunes, as well as a volume control switch. Your child can ride on Kota if they weigh 60lbs or less, and even feed it leafy snacks (included.) A hidden handle in the back of Kota's neck helps children hold on, so they can bounce without worrying about falling off. Requires 6 D batteries (not included), and unlike the Butterscotch Pony, the tail of Kota is what needs to be attached before play, not the head.

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Dressed in authentic styles from 1934, your child will have hours of fun pretending to be Kit from the popular books, or the movie. Comes with a lilac sweater set, floral linen skirt, white sandals, white cotton underwear, double-diamond shaped barrette, and a paperback book telling the first story of how she grew up in 1934 Cincinnati. This 18inch doll is made of soft cloth with smooth vinyl head and limbs.

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Bring East High to life with this playset! It's the perfect size for High School Musical fashion dolls, and comes with a gym, classroom, lunchroom, and stage. There's even a secret rooftop area just like in the movie. Your children will have a blast reinacting their favorite scenes from the movie. Dolls not included. Approx. 9X28.5X25.5 inches.

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Pleo appears to be a 1-week-old dinosaur who interacts with you. He moves, expresses emotion, autonomously explores and responds to the world around him. Each Pleo has it's own personality that develops based on his experiences with you! You can share tips and download new enhancements for your Pleo at www.pleoworld.com Pleo's sophisticated sensory system has devices that enable him to see, to sense touch, and to detect objects: a color camera, sound sensors, 2 infrared sensors, 14 motors, over 100 gears, 8 touch sensors, and an orientation sensor. Not intended for children under the age of 8. Includes Companion's Guide, Training Leaf, Pleo Identity Card, NiMH Replaceable, Rechargeable Battery and AC Charger. Pleo's NiMH battery recharges in four hours, which provides approx. one hour of operation.

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With a 40GB internal harddrive, built-in Blu-ray player, cell broadband engine advanced microprocessor, and a SIXAXIS wireless controller, the playstation 3 is THE platform to have. Not only a powerful gaming console, it features video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, and digital audio and video. Performing 2 trillion calculations per second, the playstation 3 is 40 times faster than the PS2.

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This car is realistically detailed both inside and out. It makes real engine sounds, and the radio plays pre-set tunes. The battery charge indicator lets you know when it's time to 'refuel'. Also comes with fog lamps, rear spoiler, light-up dashboard guages, pretend key, chrome wheels and accents, beeping horn, interior cup holders, power lock brakes, and an adjustable seat for your growing kids.

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At a bit over 3 feet tall, this really is a dream house! It comes fully furnished, and the top floor can be removed and folded flat for playtime anywhere. When open, a spiral staircase is shown on one side of the house. There is plenty of storage in the kitchen, the stove makes sizzling noises, the toilet in the bathroom flushes, doorbell rings, and the intercom plays 2 songs. You can even do laundry in the washer and dryer! Over 60 pieces of accessories and furnishings included. AA and AAA batteries required.

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Holds 512 megabytes of music, just plug it into the USB port on your computer to transfer all your songs. What makes this so unique, is that it allows them to customize how it looks through mix and match accessories for the 'doll'. You can also log into the website for even more fun and games. Each player comes with fashionable earbuds and a unique code to customize your virtual Barbie Girl online. If 512 megabytes is not enough space for all your songs, they are upgradeable to 2 gigs. Compatible with PC and Apple computers.

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This portable game is in the shape of the Golden Snitch, and has detachable wings. It contains questions from all 7 Harry Potter books, and has an easy to read screen. It even has a light switch for use at night! Just think of a person, place, or thing from one of the books, and answer the questions the game asks. If you think of something obscure enough, you may even beat the game. Requires AAA batteries.

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