The LEGO Group announces pre-order availability of the LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Mario Starter Course. Fans can now secure their own set of this upcoming and highly anticipated new product line, the result of a unique partnership with Nintendo.
ViacomCBS Consumer Products (VCP) has named Simon Leslie as Vice President, Consumer Products for Southern Europe, Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Operation Pac-Man, a non-profit organization created to help fight the spread of COVID-19 worldwide, wasted no time fulfilling its mission!
WildBrain Television has announced the appointment of respected industry executive Katie Wilson to the role of Vice President, Channels and Curation.
Silvergate Media’s (Silvergate) preschool animated series, Octonauts, is making a big splash in new markets with recent broadcast deals that are introducing the award-winning show to audiences in Latin America and the Middle East for the first time.
Creative Licensing has announced the first licensees for the new film, Bill and Ted Face the Music.
Nellie’s Free Range Eggs have provided many Fun at Home activities for Easter on their blog. Many of these DIY craft ideas use leftover egg shells and/or cartons. Egg STEM experiments, Egg Carton Lanterns, or even Egg Planters. Check out these ideas and more.
The sharp rise in sales of puzzles, games and building sets (widely publicized and extremely logical in these “shelter in place” times) has seen the continued emergence of “kidults” — grownups filled with nostalgia and perhaps seeking out new activities – as a driving force in those categories that was underway even before the pandemic struck.
By now, the renewal season for the more than 1000 companies intending to exhibit at Toy Fair New York 2021 would be many weeks underway with a deadline set for later in April. Historically, as soon as the prior year’s show wraps, the renewal process for the next year’s show begins. However, with each day presenting new challenges for those operating businesses amid the COVID-19 crisis, The Toy Association has decided to continue to delay the 2021 exhibitor renewal season for Toy Fair New York.