This year's theme is non-chewable gifts for kids, which means more videogames and baseball bats and fewer small toys and shirt sleeves that can go into their mouths.

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Bring packaged snacks, wet wipes, Ziploc bags, a change of clothes, disposable rain ponchos, sunscreen, bug repellent, water bottles, a small first-aid kit, small toys, coloring books and glow-in-the-dark sticks and necklaces (which the parks sell at dusk but they charge a fortune).

CNN: A theme park survival guide

This follows a recall last year of toys containing small magnets.

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Italians buy a disproportionate number of toys from small, local makers.

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Over the past year, there has been one child death and many injuries from swallowing small magnets in magnetic building toys and jewelry, according to U.S. PIRG, a federation of state consumer interest groups.

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By that time, Benevento had amassed a small army of keyboards, circuit-bending toys and piano effects.

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Watch out for eletrical faults on Christmas tree lights, flaming Christmas puddings which have been too liberally doused with brandy and cracker toys which can get stuck in small children's windpipes.

BBC: Surviving the big day

In its twentieth annual "Trouble in Toyland" report released in November the consumer group singles out Mattel for putting a blanket warning that "small parts may be generated" on many of its toys.

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We were selling children's clothes, discarded books and toys, plus a panoply of pans and pots and small electrical goods, which do not work outside the United States.

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Neither have the handmade wooden toys, glass ornaments or marzipan bars on which we spent a small fortune for family members back home.

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