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Her instant fame even extended to a toy company making a "tanoerexic" action figure based on her.
Bandai, a Japanese toy company, made millions of dollars by transferring the precepts of pet-keeping to the electronic world with tamagotchi.
"Although, like anything else, they're a toy company, they're selling a fantasy figure, a doll for kids to play with, " he said.
The most immediate affect of this controversy was for the stock value of the toy company that makes the Etch a Sketch to almost double.
Blythe has been around since 1972, when Kenner, an American toy company, produced four different versions in one year, then retired them because of poor sales.
Mr. Horvath: We realized that fans around the world weren't seeing us as a plush-toy company but as a brand like Paul Frank or Hello Kitty.
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The new toy was an immediate success, and the sale of teddies was soon so brisk that Michtom went on to establish the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
Mattel claimed that Bryant, who freelanced for MGA, violated an employment agreement by helping the rival toy company develop its line of Bratz dolls while still employed by Mattel.
As a researcher for the virtual world contractor Electric Sheep, he's working with a major toy company to build a product that would exist in both real and virtual environments.
Wong had approached Hasbro for permission to manufacture the doll in Japan. (Hasbro had acquired Tonka, which acquired Kenner in 1987.) She bought the rights, then hired Japanese toy company Takara for manufacture.
While toy company Rich Legend Enterprises Ltd. has been making Lunar New Year toys for 10 years, including 10, 000 dragon toys last year, marketing director Gary Wong says it didn't bother with similar production this year.
Wong had approached Hasbro (nyse: HAS - news - people ) for permission to manufacture the doll in Japan. (Hasbro had acquired Tonka, which acquired Kenner in 1987.) She bought the rights, then hired Japanese toy company Takara for manufacture.
In August online toy and crafts company Craft.com displaced American Airlines as the number one offending company, with 270 gripes, most having to do with a reneged promotional discount.
In August the online toy and crafts company Craft.com displaced American Airlines as the No. 1 offending company, with 270 gripes, most having to do with a reneged promotional discount.
Given that less than three months have passed since Google admitted that it had accidentally collected data from thousands of Wifi networks with its Street View cars, and that it still faces a legal probes in more than three dozen states, this is probably not a new toy that the company needs.
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Nor is it common in the fickle toy industry for one company to rule a market segment for long.
Shoe company Vans and toy shop FAO Schwarz have both been experimenting with it.
Picked by the Ohio Art Company at a toy fair in 1959, Etch A Sketch went on to sell more than 100 million copies.
The company has taken the toy industry by storm since 1997, when the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in St.
They also bailed on toy maker RC2 and satellite communications company Globalstar.
According to NPD Group, a market research company that tracks the toy and videogame business, board-game sales overall are up 9% in the last year on the strength of strong performance of the classic segment, which includes Monopoly.
The El Segundo-based company is accusing the toy retailing giant of wooing Fuhu to sign an agreement to sell the Nabi exclusively through its 1, 600 stores and Web site last Christmas, using promises of millions of dollars in marketing and merchadising incentives as inducement.
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Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?
Though passed over in popularity for video games and gadgets, the toy has a steady market, the company has said.
Today, Skylanders got some company in the game-meets-toy genre in the form of Disney Infinity.
Sales at the company's U.S. toy business had declined in each of the past three years, and the profit margin had fallen to 2% in 2003.
The Ohio Art Company spotted the invention at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1959, and the next year it became the top-selling toy in the United States.
The process is neither cheap nor easy (Mattel already has 60 of its people working on the programme, and the independent auditors will employ several times that number), but the company reckons that, as the largest toy maker, it is vulnerable to a Nike-like scandal.
The toy may seem old-fashioned in an age of tablet computers, but the Ohio Art Company says it still has a steady market, thanks in no small part to its appearance in the Toy Story movies.
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