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Tales from the 2005 Toy Fair

Tic Tac Dough cookies, oddly beautiful Uglydolls, a board game created by engineers -- they're all part of this year's sort-of-serious business

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February 25, 2005 at 5:00 AM UTC

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By Lauren Gard

Ogling the offerings at thousands of booths at the Day-Glo toy extravaganza in Manhattan's enormous Jacob Javits Convention Center Wednesday afternoon was overwhelming to the point of being nauseating -- or was that just an aftereffect of the sour powder candy I'd poured into my mouth? I arrived at the Toy Industry Assn.'s annual American International Toy Fair during lunchtime and my stomach was rumbling, so I headed right to the Sweet Spot section of the fair, where dozens of companies offered their sugary wares.