Mattel and other toy makers have reportedly asked the government to impose mandatory safety-testing standards.
In the midst of the recession, when other toy companies saw declining sales, Lego sales rose almost 19 percent.
FORBES: Parents: Buy Kids' Legos, But Throw Away The Instructions
Obviously Mr. Storch and this company have no plans of allowing any other toy retailer of catching up on sales or capturing its target market.
FORBES: Battle Grounds Among Toy Retailers: Breaking Down The Consumer Demographics
Charles Woo, head of MegaToys, says that he encouraged other toy companies to move close to him when he started up in the early 1980s because they could share suppliers and meet the demand if orders came in too fast.
Not surprisingly, this major toy manufacturer likes to cross its own properties with other licenses for additional toy opportunities, resulting in the creation of Star Wars figures that transform into intergalactic spaceships.
FORBES: Is Hasbro a Good Buy or Just Another Investor Play-Thing?
However, the researchers appeared confident that these setbacks could be overcome and added that future 3D printers should permit greater control over reflectivity, light absorption and other factors allowing toy designers to incorporate additional functionality.
Other uses include a toy that can tell whether it's being rocked or patted and it sleeps or burps accordingly.
Last year it was not other animals but a stuffed toy that was behind a big cat sighting.
Two golf clubs, toy bats or other sports sticks -- such as ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks or pool cues -- will also be allowed in carry-on luggage.
The boy was running around, playing with a toy dinosaur and other action figures, eating a turkey sandwich and watching "SpongeBob SquarePants, " relatives and Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said.
The rules also allow passengers to carry two golf clubs, toy bats or other sports sticks -- such as ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and pool cues -- aboard in carry-on luggage.
Jerry collects weathervanes, toy trucks and other Americana.
The rules also allow passengers to carry up to two golf clubs, certain toy bats or other sports sticks -- such as ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and pool cues -- aboard in carry-on luggage.
CNN: TSA chief faces critics, says new knife policy will stand
In other words: Buy the physical toy, and then you can play as the digital character.
That way, he says, if something falls on a kid's head in a store you have leased to a toy retailer, your other properties won't be at risk.
Target, Kmart, Toy R Us, Best Buy and many other prominent outlets sought to take advantage of the Christmas shopping season a little earlier than usual.
Other rumors suggest that the iWatch will be more of an expensive toy that can enhance the functionality of existing Macs and iDevices, allowing Apple to maintain the iPhone legacy.
FORBES: Bloomberg: Apple iWatch In Development With 100 Product Designers
Activision also showcased some other key titles, including Prototype 2 and a new kids game and toy franchise called Skylanders.
The Minnesota wrestler-turned- governor wants to own the toy rights to the Ventura image -- and all the other ways to commercialize his persona.
Family members, for instance, like to take the plagues theme literally by throwing toy frogs at one another and having bugs, lice and other fake creatures on the Seder table.
WSJ: What's Plaguing Passover Feasts? Some Say Rituals Need Spicing Up
Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.
Take the 95 CEOs and other executives we interviewed over the past two years as part of our Executive Toy Box series.
They discovered that it was possible to sell cars on their site only when customers started listing them on the section for toy cars. eBay has since followed its customers into lots of other areas, including new clothes, cosmetics and high-priced medical and industrial machinery.
Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.
To purportedly keep children from being lured into eating food that causes obesity and other physiological mishaps, the ban, effective December 2011, prohibits restaurants from offering a free toy or prize with meals that exceed 600 calories, 650 mgs of sodium, and fat levels exceeding 35% of total calories.
FORBES: The Happy Meal Toy Ban: Like Politics, All Hamburgers Are Local
The challenges the building toy promotes allow users to create their own challenges, which can be taken up by other users through social media.
HealthyToys.org, founded by a parental advocacy group and two American organisations, lets concerned parents text in the name of a toy they are considering buying in a shop and instantly reports back with information about lead or other toxins that may have been found in it.
Whats more, the toy category is part of a larger segment called the childrens product market--including apparel and other non-recreational childrens items--that has really been heating up lately.
The engineers said the pipes could be easily shaped to fit a toy's specific form, with joints placed at specific places allowing them to be linked to other light pipes.
And while Mr Khodorkovsky, sentenced to nine years in jail for various alleged crimes, is now sharing a cell with ten other prisoners, Mr Abramovich, his successor as Russia's richest man, will this weekend watch his favourite toy, Chelsea Football Club, begin its defence of its English Premiership title.
应用推荐