Well, I guess – technically a relaunch … Mattel is pining high hopes on the relaunch of Max Steel in the US. The website is live and the animated series on Disney XD will start airing in a few months. Here is the main series … “MAX STEEL™ Turbo Team-Up* Figure Assortment/Basic Figure Assortment – […]

Entertainment Earth is having a nice post holiday sale … a nicely price Hot Wheels Box set … A couple Hot Wheels Elite diecasts that usually don’t go on sale … And hey, it’s never too early to shop for Christmas 2013, only 350 days away. 🙂 While not the world’s great animation, Star Trek […]

Pretty cool … (sorry – for some reason, YouTube embeds are lost on one of my browsers).

Markdowns have begun – but is it anything good? Retailers say they did not have a good Christmas. What are you stocking up on?

Pretty cool how in the end, it just goes BBBURRRPPP and a bale of cotton just ejects out … You can read more at Core77 plus another related video.

Mattel is looking for a Sr Consumer Insights Analyst. Among your other duties … Analyzing research data that is gathered (qualitative, quantitative, and occasionally data from secondary sources), reporting research findings, and making insightful and actionable recommendations on behalf of Mattel brands. Let us know if you’re hired! 🙂

While this looks cute, when kids are rolling Riley, are they acting out Riley would be when they roll him around by shouting, ‘ow, my eyes, ow my eyes, ow my eyes, ow my eyes …” and “mmuamm, I got gravel in my mouth … ow, my eyes, mummam, I got gravel in my mouth.” […]

Disney & Burton have teamed up for some cool snowboards … Here’s me testing out the Miss Piggy one … There’s no picture of me crashing in a heap and starting a giant snowball that wiped out a small town … there’s also clothing … The Muppet boards come in a range of sizes and […]

They got in just before the steroid era … oops, wrong HOF … Just the two … you can check out the rest … Hot Wheels made it in last year and one you will never guess is actually a toy and got in last year – BLANKET. Yea, that cloth thing you sleep under […]

Groupon is offering a $20 Toys R Us Gift Card for $10. Unlike the other advertiser we tried, you do NOT have to go through hurdles to get the $20 “voucher,” from Groupon – simply click on this LINK to purchase and in about 5 minutes, under your account, you will see a listing called […]