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- ChizSix Top 6 – Today’s Top Toy Stories – September 29, 2023
- I’m On My Way…it’s the John Baulch Friday Blog!
- Home Video Games from the Dawn of Time: Nüfekop for the Vic 20
- Mary Couzin: Creating a Community in The Toy Biz
- Will the Government Break Up Amazon?
- Addo Play Is Coming to America [AD]
- Doctor Squish – Squishy Maker (AD)
- Toy Fair and the Calendar Riots of 1752
- Jay Foreman’s Blog – L.A. and Pre-Toy Fair
- To The American Toy Industry. “Hong Kong is open and ready for business” [ad]
- The French Toy Market – An Insider’s Look
- What Happens When Competitors Bust Your Business Model – Amazon is finding out
- Marlene Sharp, Our Hollywood Connection, Reports on the Latest in Animation
- Connecto: Building Block Toys Made Bendable, Posable & Fun! (Ad)
- FeedSpot Ranks the 20 Best Canadian Toy Blogs and Websites
- Crude Oil Spot Market Price
- The Global Toy News Composite Stock Index Up 1% Year-over-Year, Build-A-Bear Up 107%
- Retail Holiday Hiring Is the Lowest Since 2008…Except for Amazon
- Will Disney Try to Sign Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz?
- 25 Years of Winning: Eric Poses of All Things Equal Games
- TikTok Goes Retail
- Inflation, August 2023 – Women’s Outerwear Up, Men’s Outerwear Down
- America’s Biggest Trading Partner Is Now Mexico – Yes, You Read that Right
- Global Toy News Named One of the Top 20 Best Canadian Toy Blogs
- Toy Exhibition Survey Results Are In
- A Tale of Two Companies – Mattel and Hasbro Walk Very Different Walks
- 135 American Companies Are Exhibiting at the Spielwarenmesse. Are You One of Them? [Ad]
- Breaktime: The Fli-Back Paddle
- Toy Fair – Where are the Mexicans?
- Women in Toys, Licensing & Entertainment Mourns the Loss of Beloved Past President Joan Packard Luks
- Statista: The Five Biggest Toy Companies in the World
- Toy Fair 1903; What Was Happening in the World
- Surviving Toy Fair; Tricks from the Experts
- The Toy Industry Is Taking a Pounding
- Why I Hate the Term “Kidult”
- Industy Events – Which Will You Attend? 1-Question Survey
- Toy Fair: The Gathering of the Tribes
- Gaming the Industry: Elan Lee of Exploding Kittens
- The Walt Disney Company’s Struggles – Its Impact on Toy Sales
- Kidults Are Not New, We Have Been Ignoring Them
- Addo Play Comes to America – My Interview with Mary Price and David Martin
- Jay Foreman Gives His Insights on the First Week of L.A. Previews
- Global Toy News, Toy Fair Advertising Package
- Little People revisit NFL big time
- Toyetic Movies Rule the Box Office
- WiT Announces Honorees for the 18th Annual Wonder Women Awards
- The Toy Industry: Why Are There So Few Black Faces?
- The Spielwarenmesse – Booking Your Hotel and Getting Around Nuremberg
- Nico Blauw Thinks the Toy Industry Got a Little Drunk…He Wants Us to Sober Up
- Hasbro’s Business Model, Mattel’s Business Model and the Fight for the Toy Industry’s Future
- Will Mattel Become a Movie Powerhouse?
- Will Apple Buy Disney?
- The Insights Family Provides Timely Finding for Pocket.Watch [Ad]
- Innovation & the Playful Life: Brenden Boyle of Fuse London
- Panda Mony Toy Company conquers new territory with cowboy-manga TANKDROME (press release)
- Small Shippers and the Impact of the Yellow Freight Collapse
- Movie Character Overload: What Is A Kid (Or An Adult) To Do?
- Mojo Nation’s Billy Langsworthy on Inventors and the Barbie Brand
- Part 3 – Copyrights & Artificial Intelligence – in Practice
- Toy & Edu China Is Back, Be There April 8-10, 2024
- Splitting Atoms: The U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit from A.C. Gilbert
- Fortune 500 Toy and Toy Related Companies
- Bad News – Yellow Freight Declares Bankruptcy, Good News – UPS Strike Is Off
- Donald Duck, Superman and Other Characters Entering the Public Domain
- Accolades For a Special Group of Animators
- Babies R Us and buybuy Baby Are Back. Dollar General Is Seeking New Suppliers
- Part 2 – Artificial Intelligence and the Law
- I Saw the Barbie Movie – Barbie Deserves Better
- Barbie Makes New Friends – The Gap, Microsoft, and More (updated July 21, 2023)
- Spot Market Ocean Freight Rates UP in U.S., DOWN in Europe – Updated June 13, 2023
- The Barbie Movie – Is It the Biggest Cultural Moment in Toy History?
- Barry Diller’s Warning: The Movie Industry Could Collapse
- Small stuff makes a splash at OSCAR® qualifying, 27th Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival
- Is India the Best Toy Manufacturing Alternative to China?
- Brazil Is Changing
- Hollywood on Strike; What it Means for the Toy Industry
- Inflation – June, 2023
- The UPS Mess – Are You Prepared for a Strike?
- AI Generated Art & Copyrights: What you need to know
- WS Game Company – Our Interview with Co-Owner, Kerry Addis
- Bumpas, the Emotional Support Bunny from the Creator of Ugly Doll
- The Spielwarenmesse 2024: Nuremberg By the Numbers
- Is Brazil the China of South America?
- Behind an Interactive Toy Phenomenon: What Makes Furbies Tick
- Mattel Made the Time 100 Most Influential Companies List. A Game Did Too. Find Out Which One.
- The Strong National Museum of Play – Grand Opening
- Reflections on Vana’diel: Memories of Final Fantasy XI
- Consolidation and Creativity: Steve Velte on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Toy Industry
- Toy Zone: Alex Prieto, Director of Fun on the Company, the Future of Play…and more
- The Rich Have Discovered Dollar Stores, and They’re in Love
- Jay Foreman Reviews the Licensing Show and Las Vegas
- U.P.S. Votes to Strike as Early as August 1, Small Companies Will Suffer the Most
- Top 10 Bears of All Time
- Breaking News: West Coast Dock Workers Reach Tentative Agreement with Ports
- World of Toys program from Spielwarenmesse: Successful premiere in Tokyo [Ad]
- The Disruption Report #76 – I-95 Collapse Will Hurt East Coast Businesses, Chances of West Coast Port Strike Looking Ominous
- Let’s Play!—From Rook to D&D
- Forbes Global 2000, Which Play and Play Related Companies Made the List
- China Has a Deflation Problem and that Means Lower Prices for the Rest of the World
- Tik Tok, innovation, and a Millenial-run Company: Jessica Kalichman of WowWee
