Blogs

We invite you to Chicagoland for the Mid-West Game & Kit Day! Sunday, Sept 17th from 10am – 4pm College of Dupage (Glen Ellyn, IL)   A fantastic opportunity for Retailers and their ...

  Hi Ted, thank you for taking time today to share a bit of your life with us! What is it about the Toy and Game Industry that you love?   TF: My favorite part of the Toy and Game Indus...

  When I think back to how I’m The Chef Too! started, it’s hard to believe that it first began as a hobby out of our kitchen when I was eight months pregnant with our third child! ...

  What are your roles and responsibilities at Hasbro? I head Inventor Relations and External Innovation for Hasbro Gaming. This means that I’m always scouting for our next big game idea...

In a bold move to shake up the toy and game industry, Rebel Play has emerged as a new invention studio that promises to break free from the ordinary. Their mission? To challenge industry norms, defy t...

  We’re in August, line reviews have started; holiday is fast approaching; product is set or scheduled to set; and you must sell-in and sell-through.  What is a marketer to do to br...

Hidden Role: The Brains Behind your Favorite Games --- Dive into the world of print on demand board game publishing with JT Smith, the wizard behind The Game Crafter. From prototyping to playtesting...

  Global Wellness Icon and New York Times Bestselling Children’s Book Author Robin Arzón Launches New Bilingual Toy Line Bebé Fuerte™ Co-Developed with TOMY Intern...

  PLAYMOBIL 1.2.3 & DISNEY: A journey of discovery with Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh begins!   Fans of all ages have excitedly been waiting for the new PLAY...

I have always been fascinated with Disney World, specifically theme park rides. Growing up in Florida, we would visit the parks annually and it was my dream to work as an imagineer developing new type...

IMC Toys has Fans Seeing Stars with New Fall 2023 Lineup!  Enhanced play experiences provide out-of-this-world, endless fun    Chatham, New Jersey – August 3, 2023 -&...

GOLIATH PARTNERS WITH RESTORATION GAMES TO BRING BACK 80’S LEGENDARY CLASSIC, CROSSBOWS & CATAPULTS Nostalgia Returns with the 1980s Classic from Goliath, Crossbows & Catapults   ...

*SPOILER ALERT*   The widely anticipated live-action Barbie movie was released on July 21, 2023, and has been a smash hit. Grossing over $774 million worldwide so far, Margot Robbie as Barbie a...

I\'ve known our 11 1/2\" fashion diva / movie star on a first-name basis since she first arrived on the scene; I won the blonde beauty at the 1959 birthday party of the red-headed nephew of Ruth an...

The Handbook of Developmentally Appropriate Toys written by Doris Bergen is aptly described by Mattia Thibault and featured in the American Journal of Play as “an atlas, which offers us detailed...

Calling all video game lovers and book lovers! Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, named the best book of 2022 by Amazon, is a touching story starring two longtime friends who mak...

MC: We are excited that you will be speaking with Robert Fuhrer about Japanese and American Business Parternships in the Toy Industry- Cultural Differences and Historical Successes at our Inventor Pit...

As the widely anticipated Barbie movie inches closer to its release date, it is the perfect time to brush up on your Barbie history. Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America&rsq...

    What is it about the Toy and Game Industry that you love? I love that the Toy and Game Industry has the potential to provide children with valuable learning opportunities. My toy co...

New SAZ chapter in the Netherlands Founded  The Game Designers Association (SAZ) is pleased to announce the founding of SAZ Nederland, its second foreign group after SAZ-Italia (2...

GOLIATH PARTNERS WITH WONDERY FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE LUNAR DIAL Goliath enters an agreement with Wondery to launch The Lunar Dial, a celestial strategy game based on Morbid, a top-ranking podcast on t...

The back-to-school season is on us, and for the second year since the pandemic, kids are really going back—to real schools, in classrooms, with each other in person. That means a lot of househol...

  Welcome to our team, Rebecca! As the new Editor for Play in Education’s newsletter, what attracted you to the Chicago Toy and Game Group, and what goals do you have in mind for the org...

  As toy sector people, many of us travel (a lot) and I’m sure we’ve all had the same pains; delayed flights, late samples, issues at the hotel, and so on. On my last trip to the U...

  TOMY International and NBCUniversal Announce a New Collaboration with a Crowd-Funded Back to the Future Time Machine Diecast Replica   The Time Machine car is deemed one of the ...

  MC: Hey, Brendan! Thank you for taking time from your new bicontinental role to answer a few questions! Let’s start with a toy question, what was your favorite toy growing up?  &...

  Hi, Jamie! Thank you for sitting down with us this year. We very much enjoyed our interview with you last year. In your role overseeing worldwide consumer products for Sony Pictures, we\'d lo...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Learning Express Toys Vendors Donate Thousands of Toys to Kidz Korna   Schaumberg, IL JUNE 28, 2023 – Learning Express Toys and Gifts vendors ...

The portrayal of colonialism in the realm of fantasy can be a complex issue. It seems almost inevitable that any imagined world would feature some form of dominant power, a central authority exerting ...

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, is a fantastical comedy starring Chris Pine (Edgin) and Michelle Rodriguez (Holga), who are on a mis...