dolls

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.You know what’s always been scary as hell? Dolls. (Watch an Annabelle movie and tell me this is a lie.) What’s…

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MGA Entertainment (MGA), one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing privately held toy and entertainment companies, celebrates the 21st birthday of the worldwide phenomenon Bratz® with…

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- L.O.L. Surprise!™, the global sensation from MGA Entertainment, has teamed up with FIFA to encourage fans to ‘let their champion out’ with the launch of an all-new, super sporty and…

More than 70 years ago, a pair of psychologists conducted a study in which they asked young Black girls to choose between Black and white dolls. The girls overwhelmingly chose white dolls, ascribing positive attributes to them. The Black…

New York, Sept. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Insight Partners published latest research study on “Sex Toys Market Size, Share, Revenue, Growth Strategy, Industry Trends and Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By…

The summer blockbuster is back.After two years of delays, cancellations and false starts because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2022 summer movie season started strongly as fans packed cinemas to see “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of…

An activist investor has a stake in Hasbro Inc. HAS 1.83% and is supporting another activist already waging a proxy fight at the toy maker while it pushes the…

Mattel Inc. MAT 10.76% reported sales grew 19% to more than $1 billion in the latest period on strong demand for toys and improvements in its supply chain. Chief Executive…

On Tuesday, actor Celina Jaitly shared a throwback photo with actor Priyanka Chopra on Twitter.  Actor Celina Jaitly shared a throwback photo with actor Priyanka Chopra on Twitter. Sharing the picture, Celina joked that looking at the…

PAWTUCKET, R.I.— Chris Cocks played with G.I. Joe and Transformers action figures as a child. Then he moved on to Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. He’s still playing both at 48. Now he runs the…