ASTRA Looks Ahead to 2021
After learning to adapt and be flexible in 2020, ASTRA is ready to take on the ever-changing landscape in 2021.
The Toy Coach: Seven Secrets to a Successful Online Toy Pitch
The Toy Coach Azhelle Wade took a look at some of her most effective pitches over the past 11 months and gathered seven secrets to a successful online toy pitch.
Design Edge: What is an Invention?
Matt Nuccio, president of Design Edge, offers five ways for inventors to ensure that their ideas can be licensed.
Women in Business: Best Strategies to Survive and Thrive in the Pandemic and Beyond
WIT’s Janice Ross and Mattel’s Amy Thompson discuss what women — and what companies — can do to make sure 2021 isn’t the year we undo all the work that’s been done to close the gender gap.
TFE/TFE Licensing, February 2021
- Women In Toys: Women in Business: Best Strategies to Survive and Thrive in the Pandemic and Beyond by Janice Ross
- Design Edge: What is an Invention? by Matt Nuccio
- The Toy Coach: Seven Secrets to a Successful Online Toy Pitch by Azhelle Wade
- Company Profile: Maccabi Art
- ASTRA: The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association Looks Ahead at 2021 by Sue Warfield
- The Toy Association: The Ongoing Fight Against Unsafe, Counterfeit Toys by Kristin Morency Goldman
- Toy Family Series: The Scott Family by Mary Couzin
- Toy Companies Weigh In: 1P vs. 3P by Victoria Sheridan
- No Small Feat: How Small, Specialty, & Independent Toy Companies Survived 2020 by Victoria Sheridan
- 2021 New and Upcoming Product
- Brand Profile: Beyblade
- Brand Profile: Love, Diana
- Licensing Preview
Toy Association Announces Toy of the Year 2021 Winners
Star Wars: The Child Animatronic Edition Toy (Hasbro) was crowned Toy of the Year; Story Time Chess and The Original Spawn Action Figure and Comic Remastered (2020) were both named People’s Choice winners.
GameToons to Host Virtual Fundraiser for No Kid Hungry
Throughout the livestream fundraising event on February 20, GameToons will provide special virtual entertainment to encourage donations.
The Boys, Outlander, Cobra Kai Secure New Licensees
WildBrain CPLG has secured cross-category licensees in Europe for Sony Pictures Consumer Products’ series The Boys, Cobra Kai, and Outlander.
Alma’s Way Signs Brand Central as Licensing Agency
Brand Central LLC has been appointed licensing agency to represent Fred Rogers Productions’ new animated preschool series, Alma’s Way.