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Gel Blaster Gellet Depot

Gel Blaster Gellet Depot

Gellet Depot is a perfect addition to any Gel Blaster enthusiast’s collection. This product comes in a variety of gellet colors that can be used with most gel blasters on the market today. The colors include pink, green, blue, yellow, and red, which adds a great visual element to any battle. One of Gellet Depot’s […]

Gel Blaster Surge

Gel Blaster Surge

Gel Blaster Surge is a fun, innovative, and safe target game that really excited our testers. It is designed for children and adults who want to experience the thrill of combat games in a safe and controlled environment. If that kind of activity is on your “To Play” list, you’ll want to read on. As

VTech® KidiGo™ NexTag™

VTech® KidiGo™ NexTag™

For everyone who grew up playing tag, all 99% of us, it is truly a game that stood the test of time. It is fine, just the way it was, and can’t be improved upon…Hold on there, not so fast! VTech has something to say about that, and as usual, they demonstrated that they know

Spokester

Spokester

Looking to add a little fun to your child’s bike riding experience? If so, then this simple product is worth every penny, all 999 of them. For those who remember putting playing cards on the spokes of their bikes to make them sound like cars or motorcycles, here’s the next generation. If you recall, the

SwimWays Dry Float

SwimWays Dry Float

Just in time for summer, these SwimWays Dry Floats have come along to give the pool experience a new, relaxing, and fun option. Be in the water without actually being in the water. Sounds crazy, right? But think about it, sometimes you just want a relaxing float, enjoy a cool drink, and catch some rays.

All-Pro Passer

All-Pro Passer

All-Pro Passer is a fun, active play toy that accurately launches a small, plastic football to simulate throws from a quarterback. Your child chooses the play (i.e., where the ball is going to be “thrown”), and the unit shouts, “Hike,” so they know to start running the route and get to the designated spot ready

Hydro Blaster

Hydro Blaster

It just wouldn’t be summer without a new way to blast your friends with a powerful stream of water, right? Prime Time has got a new pump action blaster that is lightweight and man, can it shoot water. Our testers reported blasting friends from as far a 60 feet away. Perfect for play at the

Big Splash Waterpark

Big Splash Waterpark

Summertime and warm weather just got a whole lot more fun. Water is the driving force behind a whole lot of terrific playtime where groups of children can gather round and discover hours of cool, wet fun. There is a multi-level pool, a waterslide, a waterwheel, two swimmers and a diving board. There is also

Tropical Island Resort

Tropical Island Resort

Water play is the essence of summertime, whether in the pool, at the beach, running through sprinklers or playing with this great new water theme park. Parent after parent told us that child after child had hours of wet playtime fun using the many features and activities that Step 2 has included here. There is

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’24 February 15th March 13th April 19th May 8th
FALL ’24 June 1st June 24th July 31st August 15th
HOLIDAY ’24 September 1st September 24th October 31st November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners will be announced in a media release distributed to over 4,700 media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There was three testing periods each year:

Each submission was accompanied by a small product testing fee (we offered multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners was announced in a media release distributed to over many media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report were forwarded to buyers retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report were featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’23 February 15th March 10th April 24th May 10th
FALL ’23 June 1st June 23rd July 31st August 16th
HOLIDAY ’23 September 1st September 22nd October 30th November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period

SPRING '24

FALL ‘24

HOLIDAY ‘24

Testing Begins

February 15th

June 1st

September 1st

Submission Deadline

March 13th

June 23rd

September 24th

Testing Ends

April 26th

July 31st

October 31st

Report Issued

May 14th

August 15th

November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

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