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K'NEX Announces June Mission: K'NEX 20 on 20 Contest

Contests Run Monthly Through December, 20 Chances to Win Each Month!

Hatfield, PA, June 2012 – K'NEX, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love™, announced its sixth in a series of twelve contests, Mission: K'NEX 20 on 20, monthly "hunts" for secret codes on various K'NEX related web pages.

Every month on the 20th day, through December 2012, K'NEX will be giving away 20 products to 20 lucky fans! On the 1st weekday of every month a prize will be revealed and a new "mission" is assigned. Missions can be found on the K'NEX website: http://www.knex.com/20thanniversary/Mission20on20/ which directs participants how to find secret codes. Once a code is found, participants must return to the K'NEX site and enter the code. If correct, they are eligible to be entered for a chance to win a prize. On the 20th of each month, when the contest closes, 20 winners will be randomly chosen from those eligible entries.

May 31, 2012 - Hasbro has sent word of a new contest:

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Hasbro is hosting THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Scavenger Hunt, an online promotion in support of the upcoming THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN toy line based on the upcoming Marvel movie!

With the new Amazing Spider-Man movie swinging into theaters, Hasbro is giving kids 6-13 the chance to win the ultimate Spider-Man prize: a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida to experience the Spider-Man ride in 3D! From May 30-July 8, kids can log on to http://www.hasbro.com/spiderman for the chance to win the trip for 4, or one of 100 Amazing Spider-Man Electronic Figures. Kids can also play The Amazing Spider-Man Scavenger Hunt, where they'll search for missing toys. No purchase necessary. U.S. residents only; void where prohibited.

May 30, 2012 - DC has a new contest online, the Superman vs. The Elite Sweepstakes, to celebrate the release of the Superman vs. The Elite Blu-Ray/DVD on June 12th.

Grand prize is a Dahon Jifo 16 Folding Bike. The 30 Second Prizes are the "Superman vs. The Elite" Blu-ray Combo Pack with UltraViolet.

Enter by July 6, 2012.

K'NEX® Announces "Cedar Point: Dinosaurs Alive!" Contest
Exhibit Attendees Have a Chance to Win a K'NEX Set Every Day!

Hatfield, PA - May 2012 - K'NEX Brands, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love™, is pleased to announce the launch of K'NEX Cedar Point Dinosaurs Alive! Contest. During the 2012 Cedar Point Amusement Park operating season attendees of the Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit will have an opportunity to win one K'NEX 20-Model Dinosaur Building Set, a $24.99 every day retail value, simply by participating in an simulated dino dig!

VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES SHONEN JUMP ALPHA TRIVIA SWEEPSTAKES

Everyone Is Invited To Enter Contest For A Chance To Win A Pair Of 4-Day Passes To 2012 San Diego Comic-Con

May 1, 2012 - VIZ Media invites manga fans to test their knowledge of the nation's leading digital manga magazine with a just-announced new online SHONEN JUMP ALPHA Trivia Sweepstakes Contest, running exclusively at http://www.sjalpha.com/sja-trivia-contest through May 23rd, 2012. No WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP ALPHA membership is required to enter the contest.

K'NEX Announces May Mission: K'NEX 20 on 20 Contest
Contests Run Monthly Through December, 20 Chances to Win Each Month!

Hatfield, PA, May 2012 - K'NEX, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love™, announced its fifth in a series of twelve contests, Mission: K'NEX 20 on 20, monthly "hunts" for secret codes on various K'NEX related web pages.

Every month on the 20th day, through December 2012, K'NEX will be giving away 20 products to 20 lucky fans! On the 1st weekday of every month a prize will be revealed and a new "mission" is assigned. Missions can be found on the K'NEX website: http://www.knex.com/20thanniversary/Mission20on20/ which directs participants how to find secret codes. Once a code is found, participants must return to the K'NEX site and enter the code. If correct, they are eligible to be entered for a chance to win a prize. On the 20th of each month, when the contest closes, 20 winners will be randomly chosen from those eligible entries.

April 30, 2012 - Congratulations to The Fwoosh on their 10th Anniversary!

To celebrate this milestone, they are giving away a big pile of toys! They have two prizes available: one is a batch of Young Justice action figures and the other is a batch of Avengers Movie toys in a seriously cool promotional box.

Head over to their contest page for more details on how to enter, but make sure you do so by the May 4th entry deadline.

April 2012 - Gentle Giant is giving away a production sample of their Kit Fisto mini-bust.

To see how to enter, head over to the Gentle Giant blog and log in with your Facebook account or email. You can tweet to earn extra entries. Get moving, you only have until May 4 to enter.

April 2012 - Marvel's The Avengers movie is on the way, and so are the Avengers movie action figures from Diamond Select Toys! DST's new, movie-based Marvel Select figures are currently en route from the factory, but they couldn't wait to do an Avengers giveaway, so they thought they'd give away some awesome comic-based Avengers instead! One randomly selected fan will get Marvel Select figures of Iron Man, Spider-Woman and the four Disney Store-exclusive Avengers: Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and the Black Widow! Plus, the lucky fan will get a solid blue prototype version of Thor, straight from the factory floor!

Cedar Point, K'NEX announce winners of the Great Thrill Ride Build-Off
Winning entries of the Great Thrill Ride Build-Off, sponsored by Cedar Point and K'NEX announced

Hatfield, PA - April 23, 2012 - Students from across the country created working models of the most hair-raising, spine-tingling rides they could imagine, and, while all were impressive, five projects stood out among the rest. The winning entries of the Great Thrill Ride Build-Off, sponsored by Cedar Point and K'NEX, are from Fairbanks High School in (bleep)ord Center, Ohio; a Homeschooled student group from Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Mason High School in Erie, Michigan; Glenfield Middle School in Montclair, New Jersey; and Marshall Middle School in Wexford, Pennsylvania.