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NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Random House Children's Books (www.randomhouse.com/kids) announces that Barbie(TM) Color, Sparkle and Style for iPad(®), its first original coloring and activity app with Mattel, is now available in the App Store(TM) (www.itunes.com/appstore). The app retails for $4.99, and is on sale now for a special introductory launch price of $1.99. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121115/NY14197 ) This ultimate Barbie coloring app invites...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:LF), the leader in educational entertainment, and Mattel, Inc., (NASDAQ:MAT) , the world's largest toy company, today announced a partnership to bring Barbie(TM) videos to LeapFrog's award-winning learning platforms. Videos will be available beginning November for purchase in the "Just for Fun" section of the LeapFrog App Center for the #1 kids' learning tablets, LeapPad1(TM) and LeapPad2(TM), and best...
MIAMI and EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean International, in partnership with Mattel, is bringing the signature pink style of Barbie, the world's most popular doll, to the world's most innovative cruise line. The pop culture icon will come to the high seas for the very first time to invite girls to see what happens when Barbie becomes a part of their cruise vacation. The all-new Barbie(TM) Premium Experience, available exclusively on Royal...
NEW YORK and EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Mattel, Inc., (NASDAQ:MAT) the worldwide leader in toys and family products, has announced an Open Innovation initiative with Genius Crowds® to develop crowd-sourced product ideas for their venerable brands of Hot Wheels® and Barbie® bicycles for young children. Genius Crowds (geniuscrowds.com) is a platform for opensourced product development, facilitating the development and ideation phase online, and securing...
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in and more than 20,000 Children's Museum of Indianapolis online visitors and fans have voted for their favorite toys from the last century. It is all part of the '100 Toys (& their Stories) that Define Our Childhood' interactive in which the museum asked people to choose the top 20 toys to represent the last 100 years. This list of 20 iconic toys includes: G.I. Joe(R) Etch A...
MINNETONKA, Minn., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Welcome To Our Girlaxy(TM) Blip Toys announced today the highly anticipated July 2012 retail debut of O.O.T.W.(TM); a brand new world of imaginative fun that merges the collectability of the vinyl-mation doll craze with the irresistible design and classic play pattern of small dolls. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120710/CG38128) The O.O.T.W. Girls are "Out of This World" trendy and cute. Each girl has a...
Leading content creation and content management consulting firm ArticlesOnTap.com has just announced it is partnering with MonsterHighDolls.net to help the site with their content creation and distribution in order to spread the word about the resource it offers fans of Mattel's popular Monster High dolls. (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Leading content creation and content management consulting firm ArticlesOnTap.com has just announced it is partnering with MonsterHighDolls.net to help the site...
A social networking campaign to make a bald version of the popular Barbie doll as a tribute to cancer patients or kids suffering from other disorders that result in hair loss has worked, as the toy's manufacturer, Mattel, has announced a special new product that will be distributed exclusively through children's hospitals in North America. In a statement posted to their corporate Facebook page on March 27, Mattel said, "Play is vital for children, especially during difficult times. We are...
Mattel’s Barbie franchise — those glamorous toy dolls with notoriously unrealistic physical dimensions — may soon be making an unprecedented foray into the real world. If a growing community of Facebookers has its way, the next version of the iconic American plaything might ditch her golden locks for a chic smooth scalp. Just days before Christmas, friends Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham launched a Facebook page called “Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- When 11-year old, singer/songwriter Miranda Finn wrote a song and posted a video on YouTube, she had no idea her song, "Maybe I Can Change this World," was so aptly named. Four days later, Jane Bingham, the woman leading the Facebook charge for Mattel to produce a "Bald and Beautiful" Barbie with a bald head in support of pediatric cancer patients suffering from hair loss, contacted Miranda to ask to use it as their "theme song" to...
