On 21st March, in Freiburg, the 2018 Golden Rocking Horse Awards officially unveiled the finalists of its five categories. Amongst them, Hape's Grand City Station was shortlisted in the ‘Most Popular Toy Among Children’ category, and Hape's Portable Baby Gym was nominated in the ‘Newborn' category.
The Golden Rocking Horse Prize is co-presented by Spielwarenmess®, the host of the Nuremberg Exhibition, and the German magazine Families & Co., with the aim of selecting the best toys of the year. The five categories are ‘Newborns’, ‘Logic & Technology’, ‘Most Popular Toy Among Children’, ‘Art & Architecture’ and ‘Family Game’. For each category, ten toys are shortlisted with only one emerging as the winner.
Hape’s Grand City Station is a railway station toy set for children aged over 3 years old that not only creates play scenarios based on a day in the life of the station, but is also equipped with a projector that displays images of Paris, London, New York, Berlin and Beijing on the station floor, once the child inserts a ticket. Grand City Station inspires children’s imagination thanks to its real life scenarios, whilst at the same time leading children on an international journey that will help them recognise the different cities’ characters. Grand City Station is an edutainment toy that wins children’s love naturally.
Hape's Portable Baby Gym on the other hand is created for newborns. A hanging apple with a rattle inside, a flower with a bell inside, and a bee that flies and makes a clacking sound when its string is pulled, all come together to create a paradise for infants that provides audio and visual stimulation. Conveniently, the Portable Baby Gym can be easily zipped up for storage bing a stylish tote bag that mums could carry with wherever you go.
The winners of this year's Golden Rocking Horse Prize will be released on 6th June!
