Barbie comes to the Ballroom with Dancing with the Stars

April 17, 2012

OK girls, how many of you pull out your Barbies after an hour of watching Dancing with the Stars and dream of doing the paso doble with Maxim Cherikovsky? Or maybe it’s Derek Hough or Mark Ballas? You know you do. Well, Mattel has your back with a new line of Barbie Dolls that would [...]

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Will Google Glasses be the future of video gaming?

April 16, 2012

You gotta see this video (after the jump, of course). It’s of a guy wearing Google Glasses when he comes across an abandoned and fenced off building. Instantly, he loads Battlefield and begins to wage virtual war. Could this be the future of video gaming?

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Barbie gets the royal treatment

April 12, 2012

To commemorate the one year anniversary of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, Mattel is releasing the Barbie Collector William and Catherine Royal Wedding Gift Set.

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Toys worth a fortune if you have them …

April 11, 2012

When I moved from Texas to California, my entire collection of football and baseball cards was lost in transit. It drives me nuts if I take any time at all pondering just how much of my retirement was lost during that week, years back. But all is not lost. There may be a few classic [...]

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Hunger Games Katniss becomes a Barbie Doll

April 10, 2012

If Katniss really had the same waist line that Barbie did, you could really say she was involved in the Hunger Games! I’m just kidding. But there’s no joke in the fact that the Hunger Games is this year’s Harry Potter. And the new Katniss doll is going to be on every girl’s wish list [...]

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Big Movers Toy Recall

April 7, 2012

One of the downsides of getting a free toy is that you get what you pay for. But when you get that free toy with the purchase of some school clothes, and it gets recalled, at least you know the clothes aren’t going to kill you. Not so much with the Big Movers Super Car [...]

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Join the Justice League with these new custom action figures

April 6, 2012

Admit it. When you read a Batman or Superman comic book, or even Wonder Woman, you fantasize that you were that super hero. It’s natural. Every kid does it. They dream of being the Dark Knight, or the Man of Krypton, and taking down the evil likes of the Joker (and some even with they [...]

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Hail to the doll … Barbie runs for President

April 4, 2012

Since she sure couldn’t do a worse job than the current cadre of presidential candidates on both sides of the political isle, news has come down that America’s favorite doll is looking to run for a new job … that’s right, Barbie is running for President of the United States.

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Five other properties MEGA BLOKS should try and get …

April 3, 2012

It’s no secret that with LEGO swallowing up just about everything with a light saber, or a Warner Brothers, Disney, or DC logo on it, and with Kre-O having a vice grip on Hasbro properties like Transformers, Star Trek and Battleship (ugh), that MEGA BLOKS has a tough road to hoe. So with news of [...]

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MEGA BLOKS picks up Mattel properties …

April 2, 2012

In an effort to compete with the LEGO juggernaut, and the plucky Kre-O newcomer, MEGA BLOKS has signed an exclusive deal with Mattel toys to brickify a pair of their most popular toy lines. The new licensing deal with Mattel will give MEGA BLOKS the ability to create brick construction toy sets for both Barbie [...]

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