Got an idea for a toy? Toymakers want to hear from youLucas Bolt, an environmental artist and Lego enthusiast in Amsterdam, was hoping to create the design for Lego Ideas, a program the toymake...
Epic Games launches Lego 'Fortnite' videogameLego Fortnite was "the first play experience" to come from the partnership between Epic and toymaker Lego Group, which plan to bring more d...
'Doctor Who' 60th Anniversary Specials to premiere on November 25, here's how to watch itThe Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials will mark the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate. Tennant will star as the fourteenth Doct...
Hellraiser director David Bruckner makes revelation about 2022's version. This is what he saidHellraiser director David Bruckner revealed one of his favorite Easter eggs. Keep reading to discover the differences between the new Hellr...
Lego builds mega blocks for IndiaThe toymaker also eyes single-brand retail stores as it seeks to double its business in country over the next three years.
Lego, Amazon start platform for interactive building block gameLego will partner with Amazon for a project that couples the toy maker’s building blocks with the retail giant’s interactive voice program.
Does a doll need to have mettle, and not just made by Mattel?Imbuing a toy with the onerous burden of being a role model rather than just a plaything points to the possible absence of better candidate...
GMR plans to build toy manufacturing hub in Kakinada to take on importsThe group has earmarked 300 acres of the 10,000-acre SEZ exclusively for toy-makers -both soft and plastic -from India as well as abroad.
- If humans are shaped by their activities, the result will not be pretty
The news that this Christmas the most popular gifts for children were gadgets - just like the grown-ups have - could not have cheered toyma...
- Kids’ gifts intended to break stereotypes actually perpetuate them
Barbie dolls with hard hats and building block sets with colourful figures are also being offered, to tempt girls to go for 'male' interest...
- No Child's Play: Global toymakers game for India
Simba, Fisher-Price & Hamleys formulate strategy for a slice of Rs 2,000-Crore organised toy market.
- Toy sector slowly but steadily picking up pace
While the overall industrial climate in West Bengal and the East is downbeat, the toy sector seems to be having fun times in store.
- Toymaker Mattel fined for lead poisoning of kids
US toymaker Mattel Inc has been fined $2.3 million by the United States' Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for importing lead-taint...
- Chinese toymakers now turn to home turf
For 24 years, toymaker Yoshiritsu has resisted the pull to move to lower-cost China, sticking it out in more costly Japan to meet the exact...
- After Mattel, Walt Disney, others to test their toys for lead
With US major Mattel ordering three separate recall of millions of Chinese made toys found to contain unsafe levels of lead paint, Walt Dis...
- China defends its toy industry
Stung by global recalls, China was set to take foreign journalists on a tour of the country's biggest toy-making region to show that its fa...
- Toys recall: Chinese companies to improve operations
Now a massive toy recall by Mattel Inc reveals an ugly side to that cost-cutting drive. The sacrifice of safety just to provide cheap toys ...