luxury toys – Signature9 https://198.46.88.49 Lifestyle Intelligence Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 $400 Designer Stuffed Animals and Luxury Toys: If Everyone Jumped https://198.46.88.49/living/kids/400-designer-stuffed-animals-and-luxury-toys-if-everyone-jumped https://198.46.88.49/living/kids/400-designer-stuffed-animals-and-luxury-toys-if-everyone-jumped#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:15:30 +0000 http://198.46.88.49/?p=15097

We’ve seen $1400 collectible toys for adults. If you thought the $3,000 price tag on T-shirts that popped up in Valentino’s Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles boutique this summer was ridiculous, get this: following strong second quarter sales, Hermès now offers a children’s coloring book going for $130. {The Cut}

That’s $130 for something a toddler is likely to draw all over in disarray. If a parent handed this pricey art toy to their youngster, the pages would likely be torn out and hung on a refrigerator before inevitably fading and being tossed out. Not to mention that in this economy many shoppers are unwilling to pay that much for clothes, much less temporary entertainment for their kids.

Parents can also score a $600 pull-along wooden horse from Hermès for their little ones. A wooden horse is at least a bigger item with more longevity, but similar ones are available for much lower prices at Toys ‘R Us. In fact, a better-looking, pink and green horse can be purchased for $26.99 at toysrus.com.

Hermès’ collection of pricey kid toys does not stop there, though. The luxury brand also offers a $390 plush horse, a $405 silver-plated music box and a $435 sterling silver rattle. The rattle and music box are nice decorative pieces, but is anyone really going to give their newborn a sterling silver rattle to play with? The weirdest part of all is that children inevitably grow out of their baby toys, so it’s not as if the price tags can be justified with the potential for lifetime use.

Is there something we’re missing here? Let us know in the comments if there’s ever a convincing reason to spend so much money on childrens toys!

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Adult’s Play: The $1440 Luxury Toy Bear https://198.46.88.49/living/home/adults-play-luxury-toy-bears https://198.46.88.49/living/home/adults-play-luxury-toy-bears#respond Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:55:26 +0000 http://198.46.88.49/?p=9776 No matter how much you may have loved it, at a certain age you probably came to accept that you’d just have to part ways with your favorite teddy bear.  Ducobi’s limited edition toy bears probably aren’t the best choice to cuddle up with at night, but they do offer something to the collector who’s grown bored with the usual adult toys.

Created by a group of Korean, Japanese and American designers, each bear features intricate inlaid mother of pearl designs and the knowledge that no more than 99 other people will have the same bear. Designs range from $750 to $1010. The rarest? A white tiger patterned 6.5″ bear which was only produced 10 times, is also the most expensive at $1440 – and already sold out.

Don’t count the luxury market out just yet.

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