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Toy company Hasbro licensed transforming robot toys from the Japanese company Takara, which had already existed in that country since 1980. But in America, Hasbro wanted a whole mythology to go with ...
Today, we think of Ghostbusters as one of the great franchises of the ’80s. But truthfully, it was only one mega-hit movie, and a less successful follow-up five years later. The true reason we think ...
COMING TO A TOY STORE near you: the Cartoon Network. Mac and Blooregard Q. Kazoo from the cable channel’s “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” as well as other wacky animated characters will be ...
Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their “Toy Story” pals are back on the big screen in a new adventure. The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Michael Keaton, Joan Cusack and other stars are featured ...
As a kid, I had no clue that the Saturday morning cartoons I watched religiously were glorified toy commercials all gussied up in action-packed animation and laser gun shoot-em-ups, and I wouldn't ...
Bernard Loomis, an influential toy marketer who, by turning advertisements for toys into children’s cartoon programming, was dubbed “the man who invented Saturday morning,” died of heart disease June ...