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Carrie Kropfl, an entrepreneur from San Clemente, California, invented the Streetubez concept as a way of "yard surfing" that anyone could enjoy with a skateboard.  Kropfl developed Streetubez after her children became involved with tarp surfing, a street sport that simulated tube surfing on water.  "From a Mom's perspective, the tarps were a total nightmare. But the kids loved the experience of surfing in the streets, so I was determined to develop something that gave the kids this experience, without all the headaches. That's how I came up with Streetubez."

A former commissioner of two professional sports leagues who doesn't read comic books has built a comic-book store as big as any of the imaginary creations that populate the periodicals it sells. Jim Drucker started NewKadia.com on Jan. 1, 2000, after years of listening to first his mother, then his wife, ask him when he was going to throw out the comic-book collection he had amassed during his youth.

Things are getting serious in the toy business. When raising funds for new toy designs or toy-related ideas, potential crowdfunders had their choice between Kickstarter and Indiegogo – until now. Startup ToyBacker is focused on the toy industry to give toy designers, inventors and creators a crowdfunding platform to call their own. "I see this as a masterstroke in the evolution of the crowdfunding world," according to Howard Sherman, considered one of the foremost experts on the crowdfunding industry. "What Carlos and Jason have created here is the ultimate toy store," he added.

SAFE® Collecting Supplies is a Doylestown, Pennsylvania-based organization working as a trusted source for collecting supplies accommodating a wide variety of different collectibles. They have recently been chosen as a featured supplier for 11Main.com, a new e-commerce organization sponsored and started by e-commerce global leader, Alibaba.

Football is America's most popular national sport, and millions of children around the country aspire to one day become football players. To do so however they must rise to the top of this highly competitive field. To achieve this they need to develop skills that outshine their peers. The U.S. Football Academy, a provider of Group, Team and 1 on 1 training in Arizona, and a provider of Seattle, Las Vegas and Arizona Football Camps in summer, is now offering Year round weekend Football Camps to polish those skills so that young players can develop at a rapid pace.

President Obama may have just now stepped in, but west coast port slowdowns are no recent event.

Ted's Woodworking has created an information database that can be seen as a helpful guide by woodworkers, who can benefit from it immensely.

Interestingly Normal is a budding blog that is solely dedicated to share ideas and speak about ones hobbies and interests with likely minded groups. The blog has also initiated an exclusive store with novelty products for the interested shoppers.

Happy Loomershas come up with a Valentine's Day special offer. The company is providing a promo code "lovelove" for customers that allow them to get 10 percent discount on their purchase.

Browse online for Glow Sticks Specialists and explore some of the best promotional products at wholesale prices.

Glow Sticks Wholesale – An effective advertising tool

The world's largest internet-only comic book store, NewKadia.com, has launched a new marketing campaign for 2015 named "No Asterisks." The program is designed for the company to highlight the fact that their customer service rules are straight forward, letting loyal customers know there are no gimmicks when making a purchase.

Independent inventor and entrepreneur Scott Tucker has recently announced his latest product, 'Crawling Creations.' Featuring programmable parts and multiple levels of difficulty, the toy line will appeal to a range of children.

Starting immediately, residents of the Akron area can enjoy instruction from a certified Gracie jiu-jitsu black belt, Top Level Martial Arts owner and head instructor Bill Jones. Jones has studied martial arts for thirty years and is the only certified Gracie black belt instructor in the region. Providing instruction to everyone from children to senior citizens, Top Level Martial Arts emphasizes the positive, life-enhancing potential of martial arts, seeking to endow students with everything from greater self-esteem and improved fitness to highly effective self-defense skills. Top Level Martial Arts' safe, innovative, confidence-boosting children's programs are detailed at http://toplevelmartialarts.com/bully-prevention.html and the school's offerings for adult students are described at http://toplevelmartialarts.com/jiu-jitsu.html.

Sly Kly Design, the Utah-based inventions company, has today announced that their Kickstarter campaign, which aims to mass-produce their new and improved Carbon Fiber and Kevlar hybrid playing cards, has thus far been a success.

SAFE® Collecting Supplies is an organization based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania delivering high-quality collecting supplies to a wide variety of collectors and enthusiasts. They are proud to announce that they will be attending the Baltimore Coin and Currency Expo taking place in March 2015.

Linda Gottbeheut is proud to announce the creation and launch of her new website venture, All-AmericanToys.com. The website offers a wide range of children's toys that are 100% made in the USA including kid's room décor, stuffed toys, wooden vehicles, infant toys, building blocks, and educational toys. Gottbeheut was inspired to start her website after trying to locate toys made in the USA for her little girl after hearing about problems with lead paint in toys made outside the United States. She found it extremely difficult to obtain toys that were 100% made in America. She started her website as a place for parents to come to find safe toys that would last for a long time.

According to Aspen Project Play, children who participate in sports build and maintain bones, joints, and muscles which are healthier, while also controlling their weight. In addition, participation in youth sports helps to prevent or delay a person's development of high blood pressure. The organization found that children who play sports at a young age will continue to do so as they get older, with those 24 years of age being eight times more likely to play sports if they did as a child. Parents need to factor this into their decision as to whether or not to put their child in an organized sport, The Baseball Diamond (thebaseballdiamond.com) reports.

We all remember saying that we thought we hear sleigh-bells to get our kids to go to bed on Christmas Eve. Some parents have gone so far as to climb up on the roof stomping around in the cold darkness of winter.

For many years, Apocalypse Toys has been making custom prototype action figures. The company is now all set to introduce their new toy line Termn8 Force Z. The zombie action figure ZombdMe is the star of this new toy line. The concept of this project revolves around a clash between the robot ninjas and zombies. However, the most extraordinary thing about ZombdMe is that it allows the buyers to create a 12 inch zombie toy of himself/herself.

Paper pellets make great projectiles- just ask any kid. On 30th January, PaperShooters™ launches their highly innovative build-it-yourself cardboard blaster! They blast 100% biodegradable 'soft splat' ammo, which hit and stick to targets up to 75 feet away. The shooters are more accurate than other blasters, and unlike foam darts, you don't need to retrieve your ammo afterwards. You make it yourself, in seconds, using ordinary paper! They feature awesome interchangeable camo's which you can design yourself, real triggers, and ejecting shells. Fully customizable blasters to keep modders happy too. Using ultra safe paper ammo PaperShooters™ is much more child friendly than Airsoft or Paintball but more realistic than Nerf. PaperShooters™ kits are suitable for all ages 8+. The product is designed to get online gamers back into reality and outdoors with other players, PaperShooters™ are celebrating two milestones in the journey to launch their innovative paper shooting cardboard assault rifle. The company is opening their website and the first production run is underway. PaperShooters.com will commence pre-orders for the 'gunsmith experience' on January 30th. To start with a bang, pardon the pun, they will run a ten day countdown beginning on January 20th. Participants of the countdown have the chance to win free merchandise and one lucky PaperShooters™ fan will win up to $10,000!

Disney Tsum Tsum Plush fandom transcends age, gender and geographical boundaries. After taking over Japan with irresistible cuteness, the Tsum Tsum plushies are quickly making their way in to the hearts of North American kids and adults alike. TsumTsumPlushes.com is online tsum tsum shop that will be offering the Disney Tsum Tsum Plush to the North American fans. The online store has been set up by a group of people who share a love of Disney characters and Tsum Tsum plushies.

Glow sticks are a fun item to use when going out to a party or even otherwise. Glow sticks can be used for corporate events, fundraisers etc to attract people.

Zippy Marks is an arts and craft brand which also offers 8 pieces, 6mm chisel tip liquid chalk markers, which produce brilliant, long lasting colors, and are smudge resistant, do not dry out quickly or fade. Liquid Chalk markers have many advantages over its predecessor the traditional chalk, due to their vibrant colors and no mess use liquid chalks are quickly replacing regular chalk in classroom, menu boards and displays.

Roger Dean is proud to announce the creation and launch of his new website venture, RJDGlobalToys.com. The website offers a broad assortment of remote control toys including RC trucks, RC helicopters, and RC cars. There are RC toys that appeal to a wide range of skill levels from beginner to expert. Dean was inspired to start his website by his own love of the hobby. He remembers how much fun he had playing with toys like these when he was a child and wanted to share this experience with his customers and their families.