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Nerf Legal Warfare: 5 Tales Of Foamy Fun Gone Wrong
In late 1969, Reyn Guyer, inventor of the game Twister, did it again. He invented a foamy toy that became a classic -- Nerf, "The World's First Indoor Ball." Since that first ball forty-five years ago, the Nerf brand has expanded to include many other products, including footballs and an arsenal of toy weapons. This week, On Remand looks back at Nerf and five legal tales of foamy fun gone wrong.
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Kmart layaway contract canceled: Shoppers get email that toys will not be delivered for Christmas
Kmart’s layaway system has some families scrambling for gifts days before Christmas. NewsChannel 5's Scripps sister station Investigators at WRTV in Indianapolis uncovered a problem with Kmart’s layaway. Ashley Hazel, a single Bloomington, Ind., mother, said she put Christmas toys for her children on layaway starting Nov. 9 and made all the necessary payments.
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Play-Doh Enrages Parents With a Penis-Shaped Baking Toy
Play-Doh, by most standards, is an exceedingly innocuous toy. Kids can use the pliable dough to build all manner of things—rather than level cities and shoot people—and they can even eat moderate amounts of it without ending up in the emergency room. But over the holiday season, some parents made a rather unpleasant discovery: a tool in a Play-Doh kit that strongly resembles a penis. Pictures of the offending part circulated on Twitter with clever wordplays like "Dil-Doh."
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How Lego Became The Apple Of Toys
Every September, largely unbeknownst to the rest of the company, a group of around 50 Lego employees descends upon Spain’s Mediterranean coast, armed with sunblock, huge bins of Lego bricks, and a decade’s worth of research into the ways children play. The group, which is called the Future Lab, is the Danish toy giant’s secretive and highly ambitious R&D team, charged with inventing entirely new, technologically enhanced "play experiences" for kids all over the world.
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I Am Big Bird documentary to screen at US Toy Fair 2015
Breaking news from the UK and international toy industry
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LEGO Scooby-Doo on the way
Warner Bros. Consumer Products confirms tie up for first ever LEGO building sets.
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What Made People Lose Their Minds Over Beanie Babies?
In July of 1999, I traveled with my family to Tenby, Wales. The town is said to be picturesque, but I have no memory of its scenery—except for a small toy store we passed on our drive in. As soon as we settled into our hotel, my sister and I begged our father to trek to the shop and search for the Britannia Beanie Baby, sold exclusively in the United Kingdom. The Britannia bear wasn’t just a toy, we explained; it was an investment, projected to be worth thousands...
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A mountain of toys: Inside the strange world of Toy Fair 2015
Around the start of Toy Fair, I realized just what made the experience so different to the tech shows, video game events, and comic cons I usually visit. It was the volume. At a tech event, most companies have just a handful of products. Some have just one or two. Even a gigantic company like Samsung might be showing off no more than fifty different devices in all: a dozen TVs, a handful of phones, a line of computers, and a handful...
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Whoa, This Weird Retro Ad Imagines Birdman as a Real Action Figure
Last fall, Fox Searchlight gave away limited-edition Birdman action figures as part of its marketing for the movie. Now, the Best Picture Oscar winner is reopening in cinemas—and getting a dose of new marketing, including a commercial for those toys.
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Lego not just for kids anymore: After-hours parties and speed-building competitions cater to toy's older fans
Crossing back into Canada from the U.S. with a car full of nondescript boxes, Simon Liu, an IT professional from Toronto, was curtly told to proceed to secondary inspection. As four border officers closed in on him, he uttered a few words of explanation, but along one of the busiest cross-border shopping corridors in the country at Niagara Falls, inspectors weren’t buying his farfetched story; they wanted to take a look for themselves.
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Jealousy, Greed, and Soccer Moms: Exploring the 'Great Beanie Baby Bubble' of the 90s
Somewhere in your parents' basement, there's a plastic Rubbermaid bin filled with worthless plush toys that once promised riches. The Beanie Baby frenzy of the 90s spread from suburban Chicago across the United States, creating a mass speculative bubble, with sales reaching $1 billion at their peak. Ty Warner, creator of the Beanie Baby, was an "obsessive" perfectionist, slaving over the minute details of each toy even after they had gone to market.
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Child advocates: Halt production of ‘creepy’ interactive Barbie doll
Child advocates want toymaker Mattel to pull the plug on a new interactive Barbie doll that records children’s voices and uploads them to a cloud server.
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'Eavesdropping' new Barbie has parents group worried
Parents who pick up a new “Hello Barbie” for their kids could be bidding "adieu" to their privacy -- at least that's what a U.S.-based children’s advocacy group is warning. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has launched a petition calling on the Mattel toy company to dump its plans to begin selling the "Hello Barbie" in the fall. It says it doesn't like the idea that the "creepy" doll will be able to "eavesdrop" on kids by listening and recording their conversations.
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New Barbie Sends Kids' Private Thoughts To The Cloud
You can brush her hair, surveillance everywhere
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These People Spend Thousands of Dollars Buying 'Haunted Dolls' from eBay
The purportedly possessed children's toys can sell for as little as $45 and for more than $1,500.
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Father and daughter recreated Jurassic Park with $100,000 worth of Lego
It's official: this video is the most adorable way to relive the best moments from the original Jurassic Park. A father and his young daughter — along with the help of a few very talented friends —...
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Rubik's Cube - Making The World's Most Popular Puzzle
Invented by a Hungarian architect, the Rubik's Cube has captivated the world for the past 40 years. This is the story of how it was created.
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A Short History of Unnecessarily Terrifying Toy Patents
Google does a lot. Search, email, translation, browsers, phones, chat, docs and much, much more. And if its most recently published patent application is any indication, it’s thinking about getting in on the high-tech, creepy toy game. Said patent is for a connected “anthropomorphic device” that will respond to “social cues” to control media devices in the home, likely with the intention of becoming an integral part of the Internet of Things.
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Bazinga! Lego announces 'Big Bang Theory' set
'The Big Bang Theory' is getting its very own Lego set.
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Legoizer Turns Any Image Into A Lego Kit
In the future, everything will be made of Lego if the Legoizer has anything to say about it. This system, really a piece of pixelation software, turns images into Lego creations by breaking them into block-sized chunks and supplying a shopping list and list of instructions. For example, the image above takes 34 rows of Lego to build and requires a few hundred pieces of various colors, including lots of white pieces.
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