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Pixter in green. Pixter was among the first portable handheld touch screen drawing toys for children invented by Rehco, LLC and marketed by Fisher Price from 2000 through 2007.
Fisher-Price was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Price's illustrator-artist wife Margaret Evans Price and Helen Schelle. [2] [3] Fisher worked previously in manufacturing, selling and advertising games for a company in Churchville, New York. [4]
The Fisher-Price Corn Popper, and the Xylophone was released in 1957. [21] [22] Mattel would ultimately acquire Fisher-Price on August 20, 1993. [23] The Barbie doll debuted on March 9, 1959, going on to become the company's best-selling toy in history. [24]
In 1960, Fisher-Price introduced two additional toys with removable figures; "Snorky the Fire Engine" and the "Nifty Station Wagon." [8] The Nifty Station Wagon came with two adult figures and one child figure, thus the first "Play Family" was born. In 1985, Fisher-Price trademarked "Little People" and formally changed the name of the brand. [1]
The HyperScan is a discontinued home video game console from the toy company Mattel, and was marketed for tweens. The console uniquely includes a 13.56 MHz radio-frequency identification (RFID) scanner that reads and writes to special IntelliCards which activate features in, and save data from, the games.
The former web address redirects to Mattel's Customer service website. Additional releases in the line are Fijit Newbies, [ 3 ] Fijit Yippits, and Shimmies. [ 4 ] Fijit Friends and Newbies interact with each other and Yippits can learn tricks, and make a yap or bark sound similar to a small dog. [ 5 ]
Mattel apologizes for inadvertently directing people to pornography site instead of one promoting upcoming film.
Mattel originally founded the company as Mattel Media in February 1996, as an aim to expand into the multimedia unit by producing CD-ROM titles based on Mattel franchises like Hot Wheels, Barbie, Fisher-Price and Polly Pocket. [1]