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- The Daily News for January 20, 2022
- Keep Calm and Carry On: Britain Holds a Toy Fair
- Pooh Unbound: “Winnie the Pooh” and “Bambi” Enter the Public Domain
- Toy TV: Nostalgia Streaming Everywhere
- A Reader’s Response to “Crap: Toy Fair is Cancelled”
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand(held Game)
- A curated list of articles of interest to the toy industry
- The Toy Highway Is Closed: The Spielwarenmesse Has Been Canceled
- The Insights Family expands into Argentina, Turkey, South Africa and Saudi Arabia [Advertisement]
- Disruption Report #42
- Strong Museum: The Doll Collections & the Power of American Girl
- CRAP! Toy Fair is Cancelled
- The Latest from “The Toy Intelligencer”
- The Toy Industry’s Biggest Worries: Results of the “2022 Looking Forward Survey”
- Toy Fair: To Go or Not To Go, That Is the Question
- Exploring Military Cards and Comics
- International Trade and the Supply Chain that Supports It Are Going to Grow
- Is It the End for Jump Rope Chants?
- Why Is There No Synonym for Play?
- Popular Fads and Those Who Hate Them
- Pinball Playfields: A Flippin’ Good Time
- 2021 Year in Review: Second Annual Thought Leader Panel
- Most Read Global Toy News Stories 2021 (6-10)
- Most Read Global Toy News Stories 2021 (1-5)
- 2022 Looking Forward: An Important (& Quick) 6-Question Survey
- The First Female Video Game Designer
- LEGO Continues to Build On Its Success with Its “Retailtainment” Strategy
- Will Its New $1.25 Price Hurt Dollar Tree?
- The Best-Managed Toy-Related Companies
- Disruption Report #41: Congress Passes Shipping Reform Act, Lego Invests in Vietnam, JP Morgan Predicts a Full Economic Recovery in 2022
- Dan Yaccarino: Drawing on a Great Career
- Break Time: Emojis Are Seriously Silly Stuff
- What’s in a Bag?
- 2022 Visions of the Future from The Insights Family
- An Interview with Gary Symons, Editor-In-Chief of The Licensing Letter
- Container Rates Have Fallen 4% Since Thanksgiving
- The 2021 Hot Toy Lists and Licensing: An Analysis of the Walmart, Amazon, and Target Lists
- The Top 10 Toy Industry Stories of 2021
- The Toy Intelligencer Toy Stock Index Down 6%
- What Is Toys “R” Us Doing?
- “Baby Blues” Comic Strip Summarizes the Supply Chain Chaos in One Perfect Image
- Is China Over-Reacting to Covid?
- 3 Reasons Why Lego Wins on Amazon
- Tamagotchi Gets Smart
- The End of Everything for $1. Dollar Tree Announces Its New Retail Price Point
- Toy Matchmaker: A New Service from Global Toy Experts
- Things Are Getting Better…Kind Of
- The Benefits of Risky Play
- Holiday Toy Gift Guide with the “Toy Guy” Chris Byrne
- Risk: Playing War with Family and Friends
- Disruption Report #40: Shanghai to L.A. Spot Market Container Rate Now $9,942; Air Freight Competitive with Ocean Freight?; and Searching for a New Normal
- Richard Gottlieb and Chris Byrne Launch “The Toy Intelligencer”
- Spielwarenmesse Update: A Conversation with Christian Ulrich
- Precise TV Delivers Unprecedented Brand Safety and Performance You Can Trust (Ad)
- Chris Byrne and I Were There for the Toy Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
- True Grit
- Disruption Report #39: New Spending on Ports, bridges and highways, and Container Dwelling Times Are Down
- Who Received the Most “The Toy of the Year” Nominations?
- The 1920s Are Repeating Themselves. Is that a good thing?
- TheToy Intelligencer Hot Toy List Analysis (Amazon, Walmart, Target)
- American Girl Dolls Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame
- National Toy Hall of Fame
- Making Amazon Work for You, a Conversation with Ryan Rollo of Channel Key
- Survey Results on Container Rates, Inflation and Predictions
- The Toy Intelligencer is Now LIVE – Sign Up Today to Get November FREE!
- Amazon + Lego = Walmart + Netflix
- Disruption Report #38: 80,000 Truck Drivers Wanted, L.A. Clogged with Empty Shipping Containers, Fines In Place for Ocean Carriers Slow to Move Freight
- The Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone: Now powered by more than Imagination!
- Elevators and Electricity: The Toys I Always Wanted
- Warning Sign: Some Shoppers Are Not Getting in the Christmas Spending Spirit
- A Gamut of Games: The Sid Sackson Portal
- Take 10: Remembering Brian Goldner
- Disruption Report #37: 200,000 Containers Wait Off the Coast of Los Angeles, Toy Companies Return Manufacturing to China, and Cost of Air Freight At All-Time High
- Amazon Isn’t Playing Around When It Comes to 2021 Holiday Toy Sales
- On-Line versus In-Store. The “Precise.TV” Survey Declares it a Tie
- The Future of the Toy Economy: My Predictions
- Streaming Wars: Netflix Fires Back At Amazon With Walmart Merchandise Deal
- Disruption Report #36: Container Prices Decline, Ports to Stay Open 24/7, and Cyclone Hits Port of Yantian
- Farewell, Brian Goldner, We Will Miss You
- 007: Licensed to Play
- Toy Industry Inflation Survey – October 2021
- California Mandates Gender Neutral Toy Departments. Here’s What I Think.
- An Interview with Daniel Shapiro on Protecting Your Brand from Counterfeits
- Parading Through History
- Jennifer Caveza: Otis College Prepares the Next Generation of Toy People
- Inflation 2022: The Pricing Problem
- Disruption Report #35: The end of “everything’s a dollar,” inflation here to stay for a while, and a big year for gift cards.
- E-Commerce Is Shaping the Way Customers Shop for Toys
- Everyone’s a Winner!
- LEGO sales and profit reach record highs cementing its position as one of the winners of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Power Cut-Offs in China Put More Heat on the Toy Industry
- The First-Ever Toys & Games Report from The Insights Family Demonstrates Big Changes For Q2
- 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]
- 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
