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Build Your Own 3,000-Piece, LEGO-Like Tesla Cybertruck: Here's The Details
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 4:50pm | 595A leading toy company is back with another offering that should have Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) fans excited. What Happened: Mattel Creations, a unit of Mattel Inc (NASDAQ: MAT) is launching a Tesla Cybertruck build on Oct. 15, 2021 at noon ET. The item is part of the MEGA Bloks unit from Mattel. The...
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Ryan Cohen Shares Meme-Filled Lego GameStop Set Complete With Ape: Could You Own It Soon?
Friday, July 9, 2021 - 2:01pm | 559GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME) Chairman Ryan Cohen could help bring a Lego model of the popular video game retailer to the public. What Happened: A user on the Lego Ideas platform created “GameStop Classic Shop,” a model of a typical GameStop retail store. The model features an ape...
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There's Rationale For A Hasbro And Mattel Deal
Monday, November 13, 2017 - 9:17am | 374Struggling toymaker Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) is in talks to sell itself to larger rival Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Analyst UBS analyst Arpine Kocharyan maintains a Neutral rating and $104 price target on Hasbro's stock and a Buy rating and $...
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7 Unusual Partnerships And How They Worked
Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 6:48pm | 968Odd couples often receive odd looks. Gawking and speculating onlookers nosily turn their heads trying to understand how two parties with such contrasting chemistry can come together to form successful partnerships and functioning relationships. Despite the gawk factor, and perhaps against all odds...
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Hasbro Has Upper Hand This Holiday Season, According To Amazon
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 1:26pm | 687Once again, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) has proven itself king of traditional toymakers. As of Tuesday, its Connect 4 was the third-best seller on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Holiday Toy List, while Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) and JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAKK) didn’t even crack...
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Lego To Cut Jobs As First Half-Yearly Sales Decline In A Decade Rattles The Danish Toymaker
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 10:03am | 353Even as Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) made some progress in their respective recent second quarters, all isn't well in the toy space. Denmark-based privately-held Lego, which was touted as one of the reasons for the underperformance by the U.S. toymakers, announced...
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Breaking Down The Big Opening Weekend For 'LEGO Batman'
Monday, February 13, 2017 - 8:33am | 334Warner Bros.' "LEGO Batman" opened as the No. 1 movie as expected, "although the $55.6mm domestic result admittedly lagged more optimistic tracking and the studio's $60mm expectation,” Wunderlich’s Matthew Harrigan said in a note. The analyst maintained a Buy...
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'Lego Batman' Could Beat Opening Weekend Estimates
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 11:43am | 316Wunderlich believes the opening weekend estimate of Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) movie "The LEGO Batman" is conservative, while the brokerage maintained its Buy rating on the shares ahead of the company’s February 8 earnings print. Is The Estimate Conservative? “We actually think the H$...
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$15,000 'Zootopia' LEGO Display Ruined By 5 Year Old
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 4:52pm | 253A LEGO figure was pushed over and destroyed by 5-year-old child within an hour of the opening of a LEGO Expo in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on Sunday. The intricate model of Nick, a character from the Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) movie "Zootopia," was almost human-size. Mr. Zhao, the...
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Lego Uses Gender Stereotypes To Get Girls Building
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 9:30am | 420Danish toy maker Lego has long been a childhood favorite around the world, but the brand has struggled to maintain mass appeal to both girls and boys. While Lego bricks were initially designed as a unisex toy, the market for Lego sets has been predominantly male. Appealing To Girls As the Wall...
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Lego Goes Green
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 12:40pm | 281Lego has been a children's favorite since its introduction in the 1930's. The company has manufactured colorful block sets for children who want to build everything from pirate ships to horse stables and has even expanded to create a TV and movie franchise based on the blocks as well....
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How Can Mattel, Inc. And Other Toymakers Beat Lego?
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 1:23pm | 677According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the main reasons Lego booked an 11 percent revenue boost in the first half of 2014 -- making it the biggest toy company in the world by sales -- was the release of The Lego Movie. Lego saw profit in the first half of $273 million on $2.03...
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5 Billion-Dollar Companies That Got Personal With Bankruptcy
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 10:52am | 541Many people assume that just because a particular company is in business, it must have been consistently in the black. The CEOs and CFOs of the following companies, however, would likely tell you otherwise. Here are five billion-dollar companies that came back from the brink of bankruptcy or...
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Lego To Build Lego House Museum
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 2:43pm | 496Lego will be putting its bricks to the test. The toy company is gearing up to build a real-life house out of the colorful modeling toy in homage of the company's successful legacy. Lego Group CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp explained on CNBC Tuesday the company's inventive large-as-life task...
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Comic-Con 2014: Cosplay Slideshow - Characters That Reflect Class-Act Stocks
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 4:46pm | 56The mood of Comic-Con is a vibrant pulse of color and texture as diehard fans and San Diego's businesses mingle in a harmonious swarm of costumes, drinks, souvenirs and the exclusive freebies that make for even better souvenirs. In this slideshow, find some excellent cosplay and energetic badge...