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Minimates are a block-styled miniature action figure originally created by Art Asylum in 2002 and now released by Diamond Select Toys.The basic Minimate figure design has a 2 in (51 mm) tall body that resembles an extremely simplified human form with 14 points of articulation, higher than average for block figures.
Today, Nakajima USA is Sanrio’s principle licensee and its primary partner for the Specialty Retail Channel in the US. Sanrio, best known for icon Hello Kitty and home to many more characters including Chococat, My Melody, and Keroppi, celebrated its 50th anniversary in August 2010. Today, over 50,000 Sanrio-branded items are sold in over 70 ...
Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc., was a toy company headquartered in South San Francisco, California. [1] They are best known for creating Micro Machines , which accounted for 50% of its sales in 1989, [ 2 ] and distributing the Game Genie in the United States.
Other TMNT toys would be sold individually such as the Turtle Communicator, Raphael's Spy goggles, and Leo's Sewer Force Sword. One of the most famous components of the TMNT realm is the radioactive slime Retromutagen Ooze, which mutated the Ninja Turtles from common house pets to "mean, green, fightin' machines." Thus, even Ooze was produced ...
The term "action figure" was coined by Hasbro in 1964, to market their G.I. Joe figure to boys who refused to play with "dolls", a term primarily associated as a girl's toy. (A similar toy named Johnny Hero was introduced by Rosko Industries for Sears in 1965, but was known as a "Boy's Doll" since the term action figure had not gained ...
A Mego (U.S.) Acroyear (Red) action figure which was based on the Takara (Japan) Acroyear 2 (A311 Mad Pink). Takara first released Microman toys in Japan in 1974 as a smaller version of their popular 8-inch-tall (20 cm) and 12-inch-tall (30 cm) 1972 Henshin Cyborg (Transforming Cyborg) line.
Mego Corporation (/ ˈ m iː ɡ oʊ /) is an American toy company that in its original iteration was first founded in 1954. [3] Originally known as a purveyor of dime store toys, [4] in 1971 the company shifted direction and became famous for producing licensed action figures (including the long running "World's Greatest Super Heroes" line), celebrity dolls, and the Micronauts toy line.
Mego was a true pioneer in action figure development, responsible for creating the first carded action figure (for S. S. Kresge's), [5] The first exclusive figures (Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson for Montgomery Ward's) [6] and expanded their line to include the 1966 Batman TV series-style Batmobile, the Batcycle. and the Batcopter, as well as ...