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Toys in the News: 9-29-09 The Toy Industry Association and American International Toy Fair were honored at Trade Show Executive Magazine's "Gold 100" awards recognizing the largest U.S. trade shows...
9/1/2009
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Disney Makes Defensive Move With Marvel Acquisition The news that Disney was acquiring Marvel hit the entertainment industry like a thunderbolt. Yes, there had been plenty of rumors about a large Disney acquisition, but the betting by insiders had been on Electronic Arts...
9/1/2009
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Private Labels Are Coming to Toy Land A Nielsen report from late November 2008 states that sales of private-label brands in the United States in all categories grew to $81 billion in 2008, a 10.2 percent year-on-year increase versus 2007...
10/1/2009
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New Trading Card Games Make “Magic” Good friends. Fantastic images. Evolving play. Collectible card games have quite a draw. Experts in competitions and novices hanging with friends both come for quick fixes of addicting games...
10/1/2009
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Holiday Price Wars: Toys for $10 and Under Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Toys “R” Us and other mass merchandisers have embarked on their usual seasonal price cuts on toys and other items for holiday sales...
11/1/2009
Most-Viewed Articles (last 12 months)
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Toys in the News: 9-29-09 The Toy Industry Association and American International Toy Fair were honored at Trade Show Executive Magazine's "Gold 100" awards recognizing the largest U.S. trade shows...
9/1/2009
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Disney Makes Defensive Move With Marvel Acquisition The news that Disney was acquiring Marvel hit the entertainment industry like a thunderbolt. Yes, there had been plenty of rumors about a large Disney acquisition, but the betting by insiders had been on Electronic Arts...
9/1/2009
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Liv and Moxie Girlz Gang Up on Barbie For decades, Mattel’s Barbie reigned supreme in the fashion doll world, until the saucy upstart Bratz from MGA Entertainment made its appearance in 2001 and challenged the queen...
8/1/2009
Additional Articles (from most recent)
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Video Games: Year-End Projections February 2009 was the last month in which the video game industry in the United States showed growth. That is why everybody was eagerly anticipating September as the first month in which this negative spell would be broken,...
11/1/2009
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Holiday Price Wars: Toys for $10 and Under Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Toys “R” Us and other mass merchandisers have embarked on their usual seasonal price cuts on toys and other items for holiday sales...
11/1/2009
3.
New Trading Card Games Make “Magic” Good friends. Fantastic images. Evolving play. Collectible card games have quite a draw. Experts in competitions and novices hanging with friends both come for quick fixes of addicting games...
10/1/2009
4.
Private Labels Are Coming to Toy Land A Nielsen report from late November 2008 states that sales of private-label brands in the United States in all categories grew to $81 billion in 2008, a 10.2 percent year-on-year increase versus 2007...
10/1/2009
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Toys in the News: 9-29-09 The Toy Industry Association and American International Toy Fair were honored at Trade Show Executive Magazine's "Gold 100" awards recognizing the largest U.S. trade shows...
9/1/2009
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Disney Makes Defensive Move With Marvel Acquisition The news that Disney was acquiring Marvel hit the entertainment industry like a thunderbolt. Yes, there had been plenty of rumors about a large Disney acquisition, but the betting by insiders had been on Electronic Arts...
9/1/2009
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Liv and Moxie Girlz Gang Up on Barbie For decades, Mattel’s Barbie reigned supreme in the fashion doll world, until the saucy upstart Bratz from MGA Entertainment made its appearance in 2001 and challenged the queen...
8/1/2009
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Hannah Montana and Princesses Reign When 3-year-old Hailey Farrant of Beachwood, N.J., isn't dressing up herself, she's dressing up one of her dolls...
7/1/2009
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From the Big Screen to the Toy Aisle Just as a movie starring an A-list celebrity will bring in big bucks opening weekend, toys tied to famous licenses can also have smashing premieres. Experts warn, however, that it’s important to be smart when buying...
6/1/2009
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Top-10 Most-Wanted Licensed Toys In April 2009, TDmonthly surveyed specialty toy retailers around the country about their sales of licensed product. Here are the top-10 best-selling licensed toys...
Hollywood ToyBoy: Partnering Up in a Recession As everyone with a checkbook knows, money is tight, and despite government intervention, the recession isn’t going away anytime soon. Does this mean sad times for the movie and toy business? Hardly...
2/1/2009
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Economy Puts Toy Sales on Clearance January typically accounts for about 5 percent of yearly toy sales. If these first 31 days are any guide for the future, we are looking at a really difficult year...
2/1/2009
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The Battle Over Bratz Carter Bryant, the former Mattel employee who designed the original Bratz dolls for MGA Entertainment said in testimony last year that his inspiration for the doll line was taken from a Steve Madden ad...
1/1/2009
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Harry Potter Movies Will Lead in Toys Most of the very successful toys in 2008 were driven by movies — “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “The Dark Knight,” Wall-E” and “Iron Man” – and it hence behooves us to look at what films are awaiting us this year and next...
Even Video Games Can’t Win Against Crushed Economy The NPD numbers that came out for the video game space in October did not make for nice reading. After a disappointing August, September recorded negative growth rates for all three main categories: software, hardware and accessories...
Hollywood ToyBoy: “Net”works Target Kid Spenders “What do you mean the server is down? How can I Google anyone’s credits?” I scream at my ever-patient assistant as she brings in my sixth mocha-java-special and the bad news...
9/1/2008
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Event Marketing Guru’s Corner: Knowing “No” An exhibition industry supplier friend of mine recently explained to me how dejected she felt after hearing “no” so many times while conducting sales calls...
9/1/2008
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In This Issue Ready to watch? Check out TDmonthly’s toy video demos, with highlights on one of our featured categories...
7/1/2008
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What Not to Turn Down in a Downturn Tempting as it may be, a potential economic downturn is not the time to turn tail and run. As my Granddad always told me, “You’ll never win the kitty if you sit out the hand.”...
7/1/2008
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Hollywood ToyBoy: The French Connection “Why did it have to be the French?” Yeah, yeah ... we all joke about Parisians’ rich food and snooty attitudes, but who doesn’t want to see the City of Lights? Me, that’s who...
7/1/2008
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Toys in the News: 7-31-08 Christmas decorations, handbags, food and apparel are likely to face prices hikes of up to 15 percent for the holiday season...
