Mattel also produced Mary-Kate and Ashley fashion dolls from 2000 to 2005.

Starting in the Universal era and continuing until after Mattel purchased the brand, a growing awareness of the adult collector led to multiple series being produced specifically for that market.

At several points, in an attempt to move into Mattel and Hasbro territory, Matchbox produced dolls, first a line of pirate dolls for younger school-age boys, and later baby dolls for pre-school girls.

From 1972 to 1986 there was a famous line of Big Jim action figures produced by Mattel.

Mattel produced several more of the new Todd dolls over the next few years, some in both white and African American versions.

This design approach to the DC Comics toy lines was continued to a large extent by Mattel when they took over the DC Comics license and produced lines based on the movies Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Superman Returns as well as the Justice League cartoons.

As was the case with its predecessor, the show was based on a toy line by Mattel ( titled Princess of Power, itself a spin-off from Mattel's Masters of the Universe line ) and was produced with financial backing from Mattel to promote the toys.

It was produced by Jim Terry and his company American Way, and consisted of five imported Japanese giant robot serials ( originally produced in the mid-1970s by Toei Animation ) in response to the popularity of the Shogun Warriors toy collection ( in fact, Mattel was one of the sponsors ).

* Hot Wheels: The first known television series to be produced to promote a toyline, these toys were featured in a 1969 animated series conceived by Mattel exec Bernard Loomis that led to new FCC rules on Saturday morning cartoons.

The Mini Boglins were first released in 1991 with 36 Boglins subdivided into 6 ' tribes ' with six Boglins in each tribe over time they were produced by several companies including 7 Towns Ltd. for Mattel.

In 1968 Mattel introduced Hot Wheels and Roth ’ s Beatnik Bandit was one of the first 16 die-cast toy cars produced by the company.

Big Jim was a popular line of action figure toys produced from 1972 through 1986 by Mattel for the North American and European markets.

* Blaze ( toy ), a rocking-horse riding toy produced by Mattel in the 1960s

Four B ' wana Beast action figures have been produced by toy manufacturer Mattel.

Mattel also produced a Vertibird and Hot Wheels play sets based on the MegaForce theme.

In 1962, Mattel purchased the Dee & Cee Toy Company of Canada, which produced a Canadian version of the Chatty dolls.

Optiganally Yours is a band formed around the Optigan, a toy organ produced by Mattel in the 1970s that plays the sounds of instruments that have been recorded onto celluloid disks.

also produced the Polly Pocket toyline, for which reason the company was purchased by Mattel.

Today the game is produced by toy giant Mattel in 80 countries and has sold 151 million copies worldwide.

A toy line was also produced by Mattel, and during each episode there was a segment that included visual and audio material which interacted with the toys.

She was famous to the extent that an American magical girl-inspired cartoon series based on her character was created and Mattel produced a line of fashion dolls named after her.

** Secret Wars ( toyline ), an action figure tie-in to the miniseries produced by Mattel.

Activision, Atari and Mattel all had experienced programmers, but many of the new companies — rushing to join the market — did not have enough experience and talent to create the games.

Also in 2005, certain Yesteryear castings which had been released in the Tyco / early Mattel era as part of the " Muscle Car " series of Matchbox Collectibles were re-released in 1971-style retro packaging and retro wheels as Super Kings — considered by many to be a strange name choice, since models of this nature had been called Speed Kings in the ' 70s.

In 2007, lead paint used by a contract toy manufacturer in China prompted Mattel to issue recalls for nearly a million toys, many of which featured Sesame Street and Nickelodeon characters, including Dora the Explorer.

Evidence of his " space-aged savvy " can be seen in the designs of many of the toys he created for the Mattel line.

The first sim game, Utopia ( 1982 ) developed for the Mattel Intellivision console system, covered many of these same elements, but was limited by the primitive screen resolutions of its era.

The second event, the Mattel Hot Wheels Super Nationals Drag Race on November 20, 1970, drew a crowd second only to the NHRA Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana and the Ontario drag strip proved to be the fastest ever with many world records set.

Apparently Mattel, the originator of Creepy Crawlers, had let its trademarks lapse, for many of the original Mattel concepts were revisited, such as " Creeple Peeple ", " Mini-Dragons ", " Eeeks " ( ToyMax changed the spelling ), and " DollyMaker ".

In the wake of a 1979 rumor of a boy choking to death on a missile fired from a Battlestar Galactica toy manufactured by Mattel, many of the later Shogun Warriors toys were modified to launch " child-safe " projectiles that would not injure children.

In a subsequent Starlog article a year after the cancellation, DiTillio cited many reasons for Mattel cutting off the show's funds, resulting in the show's cancellation: " Mattel's tie in toys didn't sell up to expectations, parents group charges that the show was too violent, and having to shell out Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild residual payments because Captain Power was live action.

Mattel packaged molds from various sets to be sold separately, and also combined molds into larger omnibus editions, encompassing several themes into one set, under names such as " Triple Thingmaker ", " Super Thingmaker ", or even " Every Thingmaker ".

There were also several exclusive single mold sets, such as Superman and Tarzan, and original Mattel concepts like Squirtles and Gangly Danglies.

In November 2006 4. 4 million Polly Pocket play sets were recalled by Mattel after children in the United States swallowed loose magnetic parts.

The original 5-person Mattel game development team had grown to 110 people under now-Vice President Baum, while Daglow led Intellivision development and top engineer Minkoff directed all work on all other platforms.

Several of the units were later used by Mattel Electronics engineers when it was discovered that, with a few minor modifications, a Keyboard Component could be used as an Intellivision software-development system in place of the original hand-built development boards.

Ultimately, this fulfilled the original promises of turning the Intellivision into a computer, making it possible to write programs and store them to tape, and interfacing with a printer well enough to allow Mattel to claim that they had delivered the promised computer upgrade and stop the FTC's mounting fines.

Mauritania has three operators, the original monopoly, Mauritel ( now owned by Vivendi's Maroc Telecom ), Mattel ( owned by Tunisie Telecom ) and Chinguitel, which will start operations in December 2006.

On appeal, a stay was granted by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ; the Court also overturned the District Court's original ruling for Mattel, where MGA Entertainment was ordered to forfeit the entire Bratz brand.

The Court Of Appeals rejected the District Court's original ruling for Mattel, where MGA Entertainment was ordered to forfeit the entire Bratz brand – including all registered copyrights and trademarks of the Bratz name – to Mattel.

Mattel later issued the same tommy gun in its original colours as a Planet of the Apes tie-in complete with ape mask.

After Fisher-Price was bought by Mattel in the 1990s, Little People reappeared on the markets, their figure significantly larger in size from the original Little People characters due to revised toy safety guidelines.

Peristaltic pump systems have also been used in some water guns models, most notably the original Shield Blaster water guns by Mattel Inc.

Mattel reintroduced Rock ' em Sock ' em Robots around 2000 ( albeit, at a smaller size than the original ).

The Mattel company developed the original He-Man action figure in 1981 ; the franchise backstory was conceived by the Filmation animation studio.

Mattel designers met with Back to the Future creator Bob Gale, who allowed them to measure and document the original Hoverboard movie props that he provided on his visit.

All 127 are original Atari 2600 games by companies such as Atari, Activision, and Mattel, hacked to remove copyright notices and other assets demonstrating ownership.

It is generally believed that production of the original Mattel Thingmakers was discontinued following consumer safety concerns over allowing children to use a small electric heater as a toy.

* Mattel creates the original five-programmer Intellivision game design team, nicknamed the Blue Sky Rangers by a magazine writer when the company keeps their names secret in a TV Guide interview.

In 2000, a remake of the classic version was developed by Mattel — at approximately half the size of the original model.

The game is still available today, manufactured and marketed by the Milton Bradley Company in the UK and by Mattel in the USA, although the modern version uses a pink tube rather than the original purple-colored tube.

However, in the early 1990s Alga lost its licence to sell Scrabble in Sweden to Mattel, who started selling Scrabble with its original name.

* In 2010 Mattel released two versions of Steppenwolf for DC Universe Classics line, one in the original green Kirby design, and the red update as he appeared in the Super Powers Collection.

The original toy figures of Raideen ( spelled " Raydeen ") were introduced to the U. S. market as part of the Shogun Warriors toyline during late 1970s under the Mattel brand, as well as the Marvel comic book based on said toyline.