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- The Daily News: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
- Why We Need 12 Days of Christmas in 2020
- Collectible Brands and Retailers Flying Half-blind
- This Week: The Resurgence of Chess and Resources to Celebrate the Game
- What Was the First Video Game?
- Kids Insights (Ad)
- Take 10! Independent Toy Stores & the Pandemic
- Gerrick Johnson: Inside the Analyst’s Process
- Survey of 6,520 American Boys and Girls Tells Us What They Want for Christmas
- Chalking Up a Win
- Top Toy Companies Use Granular POS and Inventory Data, Do You? (Ad)
- A Toy Industry Outreach to Columbia University African-American Graduates Students
- This Week: Christmas Toy Catalogs – Past & Present
- A Conversation with the Inventors of Play Monster’s Snap Ships
- What Baby Products Companies Will Teach Us About the Big Coming Baby Bust
- Jim McCafferty of JMP Creative: Talking Invention at the Magic Workshop
- Global Toy Experts (Ad)
- State of the Toy Industry Survey: September v. November Results
- Baby Nancy Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame
- Toy of the Year Awards Criteria
- What is the Most Anticipated Online Shopping Day in China? 11.11 – Singles’ Day
- The Average Driver Is 46 Years Old. Trouble for the U.S. Trucking Industry.
- Hot Toys vs. The TOTY Nominees: Some Thoughts
- David and Goliath: Mr. Norman on How You Play the Game
- Hot Toys vs. The TOTY Nominees
- Block by Block: Leslie Scott’s Jenga Game (or, in Swahili, Zuia kwa kuzuia: Mchezo wa Jenga wa Leslie Scott)
- State of the Toy Industry Survey: REVISITED
- Crazy Aaron and an Empire Built on Putty
- This Week: Celebrate National Easy-Bake Oven Day and the enduring appeal of the Easy-Bake Oven®
- After Covid-19, a Look Ahead. My speech to the Insights-X 2020 Stationery Expo
- Dollar General’s Very Interesting Move
- Extra, Extra: Read All About Newspapers and Play
- My Interview About the Coming Holiday Season on the Money Talks Broadcast
- Kim Culmone: The Ultimate Designing Woman for Barbie and Mattel
- Mattel Is Doing Great but What’s Wrong with Fisher-Price?
- This Week: The New 123 Sesame Street LEGO Kit and Why LEGO Ideas is a Win-Win Model of Fan-Sourcing
- Digital Resources from The Strong’s Women in Games Initiative
- Barbie Is Back; it’s no accident
- Carol Kantor: The Video Game Industry’s First Market Researcher
- Keeping Up with the Consumer
- Global Toy Experts. 25 Years of Consulting with the Toy Industry
- The Toy Hall of Fame: Interview with Chris Bensch of the Strong Museum of Play
- Hot Toy Lists: UK vs. US
- This Week: Celebrate 90 Years of Fisher-Price at Mattel’s New Virtual Toy Museum
- TAKE 10! A New Feature from The Playground Podcast.
- What I’m Reading
- Disney Disrupts the Movie Theater Industry
- Richard Dickson, President & COO, Mattel: Insights on Play, Products and the Corporation
- The 2020 “Hot” Toy Lists – A Meta-Analysis
- This Week: Celebrating the Inventive Imaginations of Kids
- Toy Industry Leaders Address Columbia University School of Professional Studies Students
- Satellite Media Tours; Yay or Nay?
- The Deserted Schoolyard. What It Means for the Toy Industry and For Kids
- Which Are the World’s Most Popular Plush Animals
- Alan Dorfman of Super Impulse: Building a Big Business on Tiny Toys
- The History of Black Barbies: From Playthings to Liberation
- Happy Autumn Moon Festival
- No In-Person Trade Shows In Sight; What’s to be done?
- Richard North, CEO of WOW! Stuff on Innovation, Licensing and Thriving in the Pandemic World
- Will the Toy Industry Be Up or Down in 2020? 5 Critical Factors to Watch
- This Week: The Inspiration of Ernő Rubik
- What I’m Reading
- Digitizing and Preserving Toy Trade Catalogs: The Sacred Duty of the Librarians of Play
- Real Estate Investors Are Betting on Warehouses Instead of Retail Stores. Why we need to pay attention.
- It’s a Meme’s World
- Alex Tongue, CEO of Vango Toys on Entrepreneurship, Innovation & the Power of Social Media
- Results: State of the Toy Industry Survey
- This Week: What’s Old is New Again – Toy Restoration
- TikTok and WeChat Prohibited in the U.S.
- Stories from the Stacks: What You Don’t Know about Stormfront Studios
- What a New Stanford University Study Has to Say About Working from Home
- New York Toy Fair in the Spring. It Could Be the Most Important Toy Fair in Decades
- Chris Down, Mattel Chief Design Officer, on the Strategies of a Design Led Company
- This Week: Favourite toys from the Star Trek Universe in honor of National Star Trek Day
- What Else Could Go Wrong? Here’s a list!
- Chess is Hot? Yes it is! What you need to know.
- Skater Girls: A Brief History on Female of Skateboarders
- The Fist of Marketing
- Ken Lewis: An Industry Veteran Talks about the Past, Present and Future of the Toy Industry
- This Week: Celebrating Pet Rock Day and Rocks-as-Toys
- Toxic Times: The NIMBY Satirical Board Game
- What I’m Reading
- A Toy Trade Show Actually Took Place. Here’s What Happened.
- Jo Hall, CCO, Toys “R” Us Asia: An Inside Look at a Merchandising Powerhouse
- This Week: How a Tension Spring Became a National Phenomenon: Ten Slink-tastic facts about the Slinky
- New York Toy Fair is Postponed
- Wal-Mart Wants to Buy Tik Tok; But why?
- A Brief History of Online Games
- The Modernity of China
- Mastermind Toys New CEO Sarah Jordan: On Leadership, Innovation, Service and Excellence
- Forbes Writer Blasts Toys R Us / Amazon Agreement
- Global Toy Experts Exclusive: Dr. Gummer spills the secrets behind the UK’s popular virtual family festival
- China Is Not Russia and This Is Not the Cold War
- This Week: National Radio Day and the Caravelle Radio Transmitter and Receiver from Remco
- A Monopoly on Monopoly: Parker Brothers’ Pursuit of a Game to Call Their Own
- Some Better News for the Toy Industry
- Hard Knocks University
- Adapting to the New Normal
- What I’m Reading
- Ronnie Frankowski, CMO Moose Toys: Innovation, Insight and Coping with Covid from Down Under
