Shopping Alert: 5 Hot Holiday Toys

What toys are kids asking Santa for this year in Prince George's County and Maryland?

Topping off the toys' list the week before Christmas, this year's best sellers at Toys"R"Us include the Time For Your Checkup Doll and the 1980s comeback, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, according to Adrienne O'Hara, Toys"R"Us spokeswoman.  The items that are selling best in Prince George's County and Maryland are also the ones selling best nationwide at the toys store, according to O'Hara, who described them below: HOLIDAY TOY BEST SELLERS #1 - Disney Doc McStuffins Time For Your Check Up Doll Doc McStuffins is a Disney Junior show that features a girl with stuffed animals and dolls that she nurses back to health. Time For Your Checkup Doll is one of the most popular in the series. She comes dressed in a lab coat and sings songs and repeats…

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Maryland Consumer Group Warns Parents About Dangerous Toys

Some toys on store shelves this holiday season could cause choking, have toxic components, or damage children’s ears

By Maria-Pia Negro Capital News Service Some toys on store shelves this holiday season could cause choking, have toxic components or damage children’s ears, according to the annual report of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization. “Choking toys are still the most prominent (hazardous toys) in the market this holiday season,” said Jenny Levin, an advocate for Maryland Public Interest Research Group, at an annual press conference. According to the group’s research, choking - on small toy parts, on small balls and on balloons - is still the leading cause of toy-related deaths and injuries. Between 1990 and 2011, more than 200 children died from choking incidents, the group reported. The report also …

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Cubicle of the Fittest

Yoda USB Desk Protector

Looking at this week's item is Daniel Pendick with Geeked on Goddard in Prince George's County, Md.

"Cubicle of the Fittest" will offer gizmos, toys, decor and more — to help local cubicites stay alive or at least have a good laugh within the stifling, neon lit, tastelessly decorated walls of their cubes. Looking at this week's item is Daniel Pendick with Geeked on Goddard in Prince George's County, Md. "In a decision between working in a windowless cubicle or driving a light saber through my head, it would be a tough choice. But certainly it would be easier to bear if the Force were with me," Pendick said. This week's addition to your office survival kit is: The Yoda USB Desk Protector "Guard your desk, he will," states ThinkGeek, which is offering this week's selection. If you need to step outside your partitioned walls to seek the …

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Bailey Henneberg

2:23 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Someone who would enter "Pimp My Cube," has to be an interesting and fun person. I hope I get a chance to talk to him. "His mess," — now I'm really curious.   more ›