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Good Housekeeping picks top toys for holidays

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Moose Toys Fortune Cookie Maker.

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Techno Source Codee.

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Jakks Pacific Power Trains Auto Loader City.

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Playmates Shellraiser toy with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sold separately.

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Lego Friends Adventure Camper.

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Not all the testers for Good Housekeeping’s annual Best Toys list wear lab coats. Some are barely out of diapers. For its 2012 list, engineers reviewed hundreds of toys for safety and educational merits. But the true test comes from 140 kids, ages 3 to 13, who play with the top 135 new toys at the magazine’s product-testing laboratory in New York.