Where To Buy Toys Not Made In China
December 14th, 2007 by joe
There’s still time to shop online: Not Made In China Toys
NMCtoys.com was developed by parents of two small children in 2007. We have made it our mission to provide quality toys that stimulate and challenge a child’s mind.
There was much news regarding the quality and safety of toys produced in China during the summer of 2007. We walked through the toy department of a big box retailer and could not find a toy produced outside of China. Gone were the wooden blocks, dolls and wooden trains we played with as children. These toys were replaced with cheap plastic toys that had character ties to movies and cereals. We then turned to the internet and were frustrated by the lack of alternatives. We experienced first hand the frustration and angst associated with taking away our child’s favorite toy that was recalled and routinely threw away toys within a few days or weeks of purchase due to poor quality. These experiences led to the development of NMCtoys.com.
NONE of the toys on our web site are made in China. Many of our toys have received awards and they all meet or exceed USA safety standards. For more on these awards see the award winning section of our site. Some of our toys even have a manufacturers lifetime guarantee.
We pledge that our toys will last. If they don’t we want to know!
Our toys are designed to foster your child’s imagination, improve their motor skills and bolster their self-esteem. When our daughter was starting Pre-K, we were delighted to discover all the benefits she would receive through play. Who knew that playing with blocks helps a child’s math and reading skills?
NMCtoys.com is not the manufacturer of toys. We are a retailer of quality European and American Toys.
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December 14th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I am willing to bet that these toys cost more then their Asian counterparts but that they will last long enough to pass on. I was taught many years ago that when you buy quality it is much cheaper in the long run. That seems to be a MAJOR defect with our country-short sightedness.
Joe, I am glad that you were able to find at least one avenue to “stick it” to the Chinese. Hope Mattel is paying attention. They’ve already been bit hugh a couple of times now.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
ahh, was that last sentence necessary?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Aside from the crappy quality and lead paint, I’ve never been able to rationalize why we would move American jobs offshore (yeah, yeah, I know that no one has a right to a job, but what are 45+ year olds going to retrain in, Engineering? Those jobs are being offshored too!) only to shrink the tax base and then have to borrow the money back from CHINA who are friends with countries like Iran. There’s absolutely no way to justify this other than the, by Wallmart’s own advertising, $2500 a year the average American family saves on buying their Chinese crap. Is $2500 a year worth the reduction in security achieved by dealing with Communist China (who supports Iran)? I don’t think so.
I suspect that a handful of middlemen are raking in big bucks and spouting the “free market” rhetoric and the rest of us are or will be paying for this in more ways than one.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I walked through several department stores and could not find a toy produced outside of China - so I set out to find safer toys. I looked on the internet, I called manufacturers - here are the toys I found - simply the list of toys and plenty of links where you can buy them http://www.squidoo.com/toysnotfromchina
I put toys for babies an separate lens - please visit also
http://www.squidoo.com/babytoysnotmadeinchina