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- The Disruption Report #34: Americans Don’t Understand the Supply Chain, an Attempt to Warm Chinese and American Business Relationships, and Chinese Port Backups
- Revisiting Spiromania
- How Children Consume Digital Entertainment #2
- Can Teachers Influence Toy Purchases? [Ad]
- The Daily News for Friday, September 24, 2021
- Funko Games & Reuben Klamer: An Interview with Deirdre Cross of Funko Games and Remembering Reuben Klamer
- Board Game Prototypes and a Gift of Clank!+
- McDonald’s Is Moving to Green Plastic Toys in Happy Meals. Is it the Beginning of the End for Petroleum Based Toys?
- The Disruption Report #33: Big Box Retailers Fight for Inventory while Small Retailers Struggle; Ports to Stay Open 24 Hours & China to the U.S. is Now 71 Days
- Can a Computer Blunder?
- How Lego’s Monkie Kid Deal with Amazon Could Change Toy Licensing
- 83% of All 2021 Investment Dollars Go to Trading Card Companies.
- How Children Consume Digital Entertainment
- Jim Pressman Talks About a Lifetime of Play & Being Named to the Toy Industry Hall of Fame
- Remembering Reuben Klamer
- Disruption Report #32: A Freeze on Some Freight Rates, Exorbitant Profits for Ocean Freighters, and Mexico and America Meet About Trade
- The Evolution of Strawberry Shortcake
- Who to Sell to Macy’s or Toys R Us? An Answer.
- Dolly Dingle Visits the Museum: Early 20th-Century Paper Dolls as Socially Active Objects
- Laugh Until You Cry: A Funny and Uncomfortably Accurate Look at the Coming Christmas Shopping Season
- Trends in the Baby Business: An Interview with Rob Gardner of Joovy
- Build, Connect, Play
- Disruption Report #31: The Government Gets Involved, Port of L.A. Sets New Record for Backups and What the Restrictions on American Travel to Europe Really Mean
- Marketing Through Schools with MIR (Ad)
- Toy Inflation By the Numbers
- Hurricane Ida Could Mean Much Higher Plastic Prices
- Disruption Report #30: Chinese Labor Shortages, and Dollar Tree Is the Inflation Canary in the Coal Mine
- Toy Trends: China and the U.S.
- The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Persistence of Children’s Play
- How to Become the Next “It” Toy by Aligning with Schools and Preschools (Ad)
- Counterfeit Toys Are Too Common on E-Commerce Platforms. Lawmakers Have an Opportunity to Act.
- Industry Update: An Interview with Steve Pasierb of the Toy Association
- The Disruption Report #29: FedEx Surcharges, Walmart Charters Entire Container Ships, and Chinese and U.S. Ports Back Up Continues
- Industry Events on Global Toy News
- Toys “R” Us Rises from the Dead. Second Time in Four Years.
- A Vote for Barbie
- A Salesperson’s Response to “The Toy Industry’s Graying Sales Force”
- Baby Steps Are Not Enough Against Climate Change
- Disruption Report #28: Another Port Closure, Reshoring and U.S. Business Calls for Cuts in Chinese Tariffs
- U.S. Census: People of Color Drive U.S. Population Growth. What does it means for the toy industry?
- The Power of Collecting: Jeremy Padawer, Part 2
- Toy Industry Inflation Survey
- Christmas 2021, Will the Shelves Be Half Full or Half Empty?
- The Insights Family® Predict Christmas and Holidays 2021 Is Going to Be the Digital Advertising Tipping Point (Sponsored Ad)
- Disruption Report #27: How Mattel and Hasbro Are Managing, U.S. Infrastructure Is a Major Obstacle, and Where Is Mexico?
- To Travel or Not to Travel, That Is the Question
- Quack. Moo. Oink. Play.
- The Toy Industry’s Graying Sales Force; it’s a problem
- Counterpoint: An Indian Toy Manufacturer Responds to Richard Gottlieb
- The Disruption Report #26: Young People Don’t Want to Sell, Shipping By Rail Is a Problem, and the Economy Is Slowing Down
- Jazwares and The Emergence of Toy Powerhouse: Jeremy Padawer, Part 1
- Supply Chain Crisis; A Path to Success for Retail Managers
- Were the Roaring 20s Inflationary?
- Chaos Orb—Magic: The Gathering’s Wild Card
- The Disruption Report #25: The FMC Steps In, Where Are the Trucks, and the Biggest Container Shipping Companies Are…
- The Decline of Cash
- Disruption Report #24: $5,000 Freight Surcharges and Container Ship Captains Step on the Gas
- Industry Veteran Andy Weiner on The Toy Foundation’s Latest Initiatives and More
- U.S. Issues a Warning on Doing Business In Hong Kong
- Disruption Report #23: “The Worst Shipping Disruption Since World War II”
- Out with the Old and in with the… Older?
- The Insights Family® Launch IP INDEX™ A Ground-Breaking Way to Track & Understand IP Performance & Future Demand (Sponsored Ad)
- Disruption Report #22: Freight at the Speed of Sound, UnVaccinated Seafarers and Dollar Tree Fights Inflation
- The Toys Are Coming to Life
- Surprise! Bricks and Mortar Retail Will Continue to Dominate E-Commerce for the Foreseeable Future
- Consumers Are Spending – Their Money’s Surprising Source and What It Means for the Future.
- Liberty’s Lighter Side
- Disruption Report #21: Retailers cutting back on orders, Biden Admin Going After Container Shippers, and more
- Social Media for Kids: Zigazoo is The Next Big Thing
- The World’s Most Valuable Toy and Toy-Related Brands
- Kafka and the Lost Doll
- The Essential Element of Emotional Intelligence: Renée Adams on This Emerging Trend
- Disruption Report #20: FedEx dropping customers, $100,000/day ship leasing, & Yantian is getting back to business
- Baby Births Are Down; how bad is it?
- Play Adores a Vacuum
- Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company
- Disruption Report #19: Christmas May Be a Challenge, and Some Additional Reasons for the Shipping Logjam
- Blowing Soap Bubbles; More Than Play
- Retail Competition, direct to you from the other side of the world.
- Disruption Report #18; Pallets Prices at an All-Time High, The Fed Chief Gets Humble and My Outakes from Chairman Powell’s Press Conference
- Chris Byrne, “The Toy Guy,” visits Live with Kelly and Ryan, June 16, 2021
- Netflix Aims to Ride on the Direct-to-Consumer Boom with New Show-themed Online Shop
- “The Great Resignation:” Up to 40% of Workers Are Planning to Change Jobs
- New Generation, New Markets: The Evolution of Madame Alexander
- Disruption Report #17: Shipping Problems Worsen, Chinese Factories Close to Preserve the Power Grid, and Inflation Continues.
- The Fortune 500 [Toy 28]
- Aww, That’s So Cute. The Japanese culture of kawaii.
- How Will the Toy Industry Finish 2021? Three Questions Whose Answers Will Tell Us A Lot.
- Disruption Report #16, Size Matters, Troubles at the Port of Yantian, and Why People Are Taking Their Time Going Back to Work
- This Week: Celebrating National Yo-Yo Day
- Mia Galison of eeBoo: The Art of Creating Positive Play
- The End of $19.99
- The Insights Family® Forms Partnership with InspiredConsumer (Sponsored Ad)
- Is It the End of “Just-In-Time”?
- Disruption Report #15: A weaker dollar, and Chinese factories are absorbing cost increases
- The Canadian Toy Industry
- Demo Day Play?
- Disruption Report #14; The Labor Shortage, Entertainment vs. Toys, and Port Backups Worsen
- What’s Causing Price Increases and How to Manage Them
- Toy Companies Embrace Social Change
