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Combat Creatures Attacknids

Watching this spider-like robot come to life and start crawling around your home is quite a sight. We’ve seen lots of remote controlled vehicles but nothing that moves quite like this. Using the remote control takes only minutes to master and in no time you will be antagonizing the dog while firing soft foam disks. […]

Music Band Table

Music Band Table

This 3-in-1 electronic activity table has a unique feature that really stood out to testers, removable instruments. Normally activity tables have stationary play sections which means that the only time a child can play with it is when they are at the table. Now these various musical manipulatives can be as portable as you and

Magnetic Creations

Magnets always have a special appeal with children given their almost magical properties of attraction. This magnetic activity set features a variety of designs to create fashions and settings. Little girls loved mixing and matching play pieces to create different scenes. Pieces included clothing and accessories like umbrellas, sunglasses, hats, shoes, belts…you get the idea.

Doll Triple Detachable Bunk Bed

Having three stackable doll beds opened up a world of possibilities for young doll collectors who happily went about setting them and their dolls in a variety of layouts to suit the imaginative play of the day. No matter how they were used at the end of the day they could be stacked with their

Doll Loft Bed Set

Doll Loft Bed Set

A $200 piece of furniture for dolls is not going to be high on the list of many people. But, when it comes to doll collectors and parents of children who absolutely adore their dolls nothing but the best will do. In that case this qualifies as the best our testers have ever seen and

Doll Chest

Doll Chest

As George Carlin famously said, we all need a place for our stuff. Turns out our daughters’ dolls need a place for their stuff too! The beautiful 18″ dolls that you have invested a small fortune in also come with a huge variety of clothing and accessories. We can’t have that strewn about which is

Monkeez Makes a Difference

The sock puppet monkeys of our grandparent’s youth have been brought back, given a makeover with new colors and designs and they are as endearing as ever. But MVP Brands had much more than just a stuffed toy in mind when they reintroduced the genre. Monkeez is more like a mascot for character building. Each

Hopper Kangaroo Family

Hopper Kangaroo Family

This adorable three-level tree house enchanted young testers. With all of its rooms and places for active imaginative play they flocked to and around creating scenarios and activities for the inhabitants. There is a fun slide, a swing, a deck and a basket and pulley, all of which took just minutes to setup and and

Air Hogs Saw Blade

Air Hogs Saw Blade

We have seen quite a few remote controlled helicopters hit the market in recent years. As dazzling as they were when first released their novelty has worn off a bit. According to our testers, the number one reason is the difficulty both they and their children have experienced controlling the flight of the copters. Spin

Marvel Iron Man 3 Assemblers - Action Figure Assortment

Is there anyone who doesn’t think Iron Man is awesome? Certainly none of our testers, young or old. This action figure set is perfect for small hands to put together, move and imagine Iron Man adventures to their heart’s content. The pieces are sturdy and can withstand endless amounts of changing and reconfiguring. Parents felt

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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