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Lego goes to the girls: New products feminist or sexist?
Lego’s sales and profits are soaring as the rest of the toy market struggles – and it has girls to thank. Twice as many girl-centric Lego Friends sets were sold than expected in the first six months of the year, the Danish company said....
Tags: Marketing, Toy Industry, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Companies and Corporations, LEGO Group
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Amazon, watch your back: Target, Best Buy to match online prices
Target and other brick-and-mortar retailers are treating this holiday season as an offensive against online rivals such as Amazon.com, using tactics such as price-matching to win back dominance of the Christmas shopping season. Tired of being used as...
Tags: New Products, Services and Shopping, Walmart, Groceries, Target
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Nukotoys latest to link virtual games with physical toys
For the digitally obsessed youth of so-called Generation Z, what is the definition of a toy? That's the question that Rodger Raderman and Doug Penman set out to answer in 2009 when the two parents founded a company called Nukotoys in San Francisco. On...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Toy Industry, Computer Hardware, Television Industry, Gaming
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Mattel announces life-size Hot Wheels 'Double Loop Dare'
L.A. NOWPromoters are calling it a high-velocity gravity-defying feat for adrenaline junkies of all ages: The Hot Wheels "Double Loop Dare." On June 30 at 11:20 a.m. in a lot across from Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, two drivers will...... -
Farrah Fawcett poster image reissued for charity -- on a T-shirt [Updated]
All The RageFarrah Fawcett's iconic poster image has been re-issued on an Urban Outfitter's T-shirt. A portion of the $24 purchase price will fund the Farrah Fawcett Foundation's support of alternative methods of cancer research.... -
'Games' fans hunger for more merchandise
Los Angeles TimesDanielle Pepers is such a fan of"The Hunger Games"that she had the book's unofficial mascot — a mockingjay — tattooed on her right arm this month. But her intrigue with the books and movie, which hit theaters Friday, didn't stop there. On a...Tags: Book, Entertainment, The Hunger Games (movie), Movies, China
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Toy company Hasbro reports profit slump after Mattel says sales down
Big summer movies such as “Battleship,” “The Avengers,” “Amazing Spiderman” and “G.I. Joe” – and the packaged toys that will be sold with them – can’t come soon enough forHasbro Inc., whose...
Tags: Marketing, Toy Industry, Services and Shopping, Economy, Business and Finance, Barbie (fictional character)
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Children's Hospitals
In photographs, Megan Webber’s 5-year-old son Benjamin had a white glow on one eye where other people have that little red dot. It didn’t seem important at first, then her sister remembered seeing a TV show about the glow and eye disease....Tags: Oncology, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Parkinson's Disease, Psychologists
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'Beverly Hillbillies' actress settles lawsuit over Barbie doll
Money & CompanyGetprevAn actress on the long-running "Beverly Hillbillies" television show has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with toy giant Mattel and CBS Consumer Products Inc. over a Barbie doll modeled on her features and using her name.... -
Is America ready for a bald Barbie doll?
Nation NowConventional wisdom says a doll needs to be perfect. But two cross-country friends want to see a doll -- ideally a bald Barbie doll -- that reflects reality for children and women with cancer and other illness....
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