T is for Toy Fair 2020 Reports - D-Gifts (Monza) / D-Kids / D-Video / Dynit

A new name at this year's Toy Fair 2020 was Dynit, and Italian toy seller, obviously using China for it product, but A) working with contractors not necessarily known to us or whose products aren't visually familiar, and B) doing all their own innovation and design.

Their big push at the Toy Fair was blind-bag stuff for which they are looking for UK buyers/stockists. And we'll work though the quite extensive ranges, laid-out in the catalogues, in a minute.

Not in the top-flight of such animals and no real threat to Schleich or Papo, they are nevertheless perfectly reasonable animals, and the catalogue shows higher and lower-grade lines, so the animal collectors will soon know which to look-out for. The adult bear here is better than the painting has left it looking, what with a lopsided nose!

Chatting with the Italian staff I gathered they have begun work with the UK's DC Thompson (comics) on licensing British characters (DCT are struggling at the moment in the balanced-figures department!) and are also talking to Egmont Ltd  (who own the Dean back-catalogue) and Immediate Media with partnership potential.

I tried to see if a combination of flash and the hall (Kensington Olympia)'s lighting might render the contents guessable, but as you can see - no such luck!

Several pages of dinosaurs are currently available (mostly in Italy?), and in several size-brackets (always pack- or 'box-scale'), along with various novelty lines, glow, deforms, skeletons, squeezes/stretchies &etc. Along with modelling-compound/moulding sets.

Wild and farm animals, insects, amphibians, snakes and all the usual lines you would expect from a 'rack-toy' specialist. Indeed they mention 'news-stands' (as the destination for their toys)  several times in their introductory blurb, so clearly Italy isn't yet as far down the corporate, uniforming of the high street we have seen here in the UK?

Sticky-insects, glow-in-the-dark stuff, slime with marine life and Halloween types also abound in an 82 page catalogue of such stuff. Other lines include all the usual furry things, glove-puppety things, dolly-things and so forth!

Little pets and domestic animals share catalogue space with monsters and dragons while I haven't shot all the larger 'action-figure' types which are to be found in each section; Dinosaurs, dragons, wild, farm and zoo.

As with all toy companies of this type; there is a larger pinky-purple section of the catalogue, some of which will be of use to fantasy collectors or gamers, with or without a bit of home-paint!