Zoomorphs facts for kids
Zoomorphs are super cool building toys made by River Dolphin Toys, a company from Brooklyn. Each Zoomorphs set comes with 30 to 100 plastic animal pieces. You can snap these pieces together to build real animals like a cat or a dinosaur. But the fun part is you can also mix and match them to create amazing fantasy creatures, like a dino-cat-horse-bird! All the pieces from different Zoomorphs sets work together, so you can combine them in endless ways. By late 2006, Zoomorphs were sold in almost 1,100 special toy stores.
Awesome Toy Sets
There are currently eleven different Zoomorphs sets to collect and play with. Nine of these sets are based on real animals you might know. The other two sets are called Mythmorphs, and they came out in early 2008. Here are some of the exciting sets:
- Nightmorphs: This set lets you build animals that are active at night! It includes a fruit bat, a cat, a desert lizard, a lantern fish, a firefly, and a snake.
- MountainMorphs: Explore mountain creatures with this set! It has pieces for a Bluebird, a Bighorn sheep, a Grizzly bear, and a Mountain King Snake.
- Dinomorphs: Travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs! This set features a stegosaur, a mighty T-Rex, a duckbill dinosaur, and a flying pteranodon.
- Runners: Build some of the fastest creatures around! This set includes a speedy gazelle, a quick velociraptor, a beetle, and a large cassowary bird.
- Pets: Create your favorite animal companions! This set has pieces for a pony, a husky dog, a goldfish, and a colorful lovebird.
- Insects: Discover the world of bugs with this set! It contains parts for a red ant, a cave bug, a wasp, and a beautiful monarch.
- Rain Forest: Journey into the jungle and build its amazing animals! This set includes a conure parrot, a sleek panther, a powerful crocodile, and a bright tropical frog.
- Safarimorphs: Go on a safari adventure with these animals! This set features a lizard, a parrot, a leopard, an elephant, a zebra, and a butterfly.
- Mythmorphs Gold: Dive into a world of fantasy creatures! This special set includes a magical unicorn, the famous Loch Ness Monster, a long sea dragon, and a majestic griffon.
- Fossil Morphs: Explore ancient creatures that lived long ago! This set has pieces for a huge mammoth, a giant Brontosaurus, a strange sea scorpion, and an ancient amphibian.
- Mythmorphs Silver: More mythical beasts await in this set! It features a fiery phoenix, a winged pegasus, a fierce wyvern, a golden boar, a mysterious capricorn, and a powerful dragon.
Awards and Recognition
Zoomorphs toys have received some cool awards for being great toys:
- Zoomorphs won the TDmonthly's Top Seller 2007 Award, meaning they were one of the best-selling toys that year.
- The "Fliers" set, which is no longer made, was nominated for the Family Fun Toy of the Year Award in 2005. That's a big honor!
- In 2008, Zoomorphs was named the Best Toy in the Construction/Building Category by Leapin' Lizards Toy Co.
