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This new year promises to be a success for licensed toys and games; category sales grew to almost $7 billion in 2014, according to TLL’s Annual Licensing Business Survey. But amidst this success, girls’ toys are seeing slumping sales, amidst a perceived bias against girls in the marketing and licensing of products. And while the focus of this story is toys, this trend applies to all gender-segregated categories—from bedding, to apparel to toothbrushes…
Yo-Kai Watch, the hottest kids’ property in Japan over the past 18 months, will land in North America on Oct. 5, when cable’s Disney XD will begin showing the animated half-hour five days a week. The TV premiere marks the beginning of a licensing campaign that will see a legion of mischievous Yo-kai spirits unleashed across videogames, comic books, toys, T-shirts, bedding and bean bag chairs over the course of the next year…
When The Licensing Letter spoke to entertainment executives for our Annual Licensing Business Survey back in the spring, several sources predicted that movie-based licensed merchandise this fall would begin to appear in stores earlier than ever, with end-of-year movies loading merchandise into stores as soon as September. The expected leader of that trend: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which competitors also predicted would mount the biggest licensing campaign in history…
Walt Disney Consumer Products and toy licensee Hasbro will appeal to families interested in both active play and tech toys with Playmation, a system of toys and wearable devices that uses motion sensors and wireless technology to encourage kids to run around while controlling smart action figure toys from wriststrapped gear…