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.

* 1997, Wham-O became independent again when a group of investors purchased the company from Mattel.

* In 2002, HIT Entertainment purchased Gullane, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel.

In the 1960s he purchased, along with Israel and Irvin Feld, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, later selling his interest to Mattel, Inc. His giant southwest Houston development project, the Astrodomain, included the first major theme park in coastal Texas, Astroworld.

For example, he purchased a mansion ( known as The Castle ) shortly after he began working for Mattel.

In 2000, a Dreamcast version under the name Prince of Persia: Arabian Nights was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Mattel Interactive, which had previously purchased both Red Orb Entertainment and The Learning Company.

In 1998, while production lulled, Bluebird Toys endured several hostile take-over attempts until Mattel finally purchased them later that year.

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

When Tyco was purchased by Mattel on March 27, 1997, it was the third largest toy company in the United States.

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

In 1980 the game was purchased by International Games, which was subsequently bought by Mattel in 1992.

In 1994, Power Wheels was purchased by Mattel.

** An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States ' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to " maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth.

After one season, the toy company Mattel demanded more input into the show, causing Straczynski to quit.

The patent was licensed first to Mattel Electronics, which failed as a company before any product using the algorithm was developed, then to a startup company founded by some of the laid-off Mattel executives.

It was later picked up by the U. S company, The Games Gang, eventually landing at Hasbro and then Mattel.

In January 2010, American toy company Mattel released a Cyndi Lauper Barbie doll as part of their " Ladies of the 80s " series.

The Mattel toy company designed a dummy model after her body.

Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company.

After the announcement, the CEO of MGA Entertainment, Isaac Larian sent a statement on December 24, 2006, via e-mail to a fan site of the doll line, Bratz World, and another two days later to Playthings Magazine stating that the information is false and the company is not familiar with the company named in the report and MGA uses first rate factories in " the orient " to make its goods, like Mattel and Hasbro do.

In October 2011, it was announced that American toy company Mattel had concluded a deal to purchase Hit Entertainment for $ 680 million.

Other examples include the lead poisoning paint used by toy giant Mattel, which required a recall of millions of toys globally and caused the company to initiate new risk management and quality control processes.

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

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 ).

A management buyout in 1995 saw the end of Mattel ownership and a new company was born, Corgi Classics Limited.

The circus was sold to the Mattel company in 1971 for $ 40 million, but the Feld family retained production control.

In 2012, the toy company Mattel, which was fictionally depicted as the manufacturer of the hoverboard in the Back to the Future series, announced it would be retailing a replica version of the hoverboard that would be able to " glide " instead of hovering.

By the early 1980s, North American Van Lines had contracted Mattel to make die cast model trucks of NAVL under Mattel's Hot Wheels brand, helping the moving company gain exposure among children and die cast collectors.

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.

The Optigan is the most common of these and easiest to find, being mass manufactured by toy company Mattel.

New owners Mattel expanded the regular Matchbox series to include 100 models in 1999, changed it back to 75 models for 2001, and once again increased the series from 75 to 100 models from 2008.

And others, which Mego did not make, such as Married ... with Children, The Munsters, The Brady Bunch, Space: 1999 ( which Mego did produce to some degree in the 1970s, but only for the European market, as Mattel had the American license ), and professional wrestler André the Giant.

In 1999, Mattel toys paid homage to Adam 12 by producing a die cast toy police car based on the series a part of their " Star Car " series.

Between 1998 and 2001, T / Maker's clip art assets were sold each year as a result of some of the largest mergers and acquisitions in the computer software industry, including those of The Learning Company ( in 1998 ) and Mattel ( in 1999 ).

In December 1999, Stolar joined Mattel as President.

* Brandy ( Mattel, 1999 )

* Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ( Mattel, 1999 )

The Intellivision was developed by Mattel Electronics, a subsidiary of Mattel formed expressly for the development of electronic games.

The Sears model was a specific coup for Mattel, as Sears was already selling a rebadged Atari 2600 unit, and in doing so made a big contribution to Atari's success.

Mattel created M Network branded games for Atari and Coleco's systems.

" personal-computer upgrade that seemed as if it would never materialize eventually caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), who started investigating Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising.

In 1982, Mattel introduced a new peripheral for the Intellivision: The Intellivoice, a voice synthesis device which produces speech when used with certain games.

Unfortunately, the amount of speech that could be compressed into a 4K or 8K ROM cartridge was limited, and the system did not sell as well as Mattel had hoped ; while the initial orders were as high as 300, 000 units for the Intellivoice module and its initial game-cartridge offerings, interest in future titles dropped rapidly until the fourth and last Intellivoice title, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold a mere 90, 000 units.

Abbat worked for U-Do, Mattel, Kenner, Fisher-Price, and ITT, making toys and telephone parts out of urethane and other plastics.

"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on Nick's popular game show Double Dare, where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as ' gak ' or ' gooze ', and Mattel even sold Nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s.

The Magic 8 Ball is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice, manufactured by Mattel.

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

Would-be renegade publishers could not publish for each other's lines, as Atari, Coleco and Mattel had done, because in order for the cartridge to work in the NES, the cartridge had to contain the appropriate key chip for the lock inside the console, and the publisher had to also acknowledge its license to Nintendo in the copyright notices.

Cabbage Patch doll licensee, Coleco Industries, filed for bankruptcy, but dolls continued to be made, the contract going to Hasbro Industries and later to Mattel.

Licensing rights were also granted to Mattel Electronics for two educational based video games for the Intellivision console in 1979.

The channel also began to carry break interruptions within shows, featuring promos for its programming ( and eventually promotions for Disney feature film and home video releases ); the reasons for the channel's decision not to include traditional commercial advertising include the possible confusion to younger viewers as to the difference between regular programming and advertisements, and the prevention of license fee increases for acquired feature films ( however while Disney Channel does not air commercial advertisements, it does utilize underwriter sponsorships by companies such as Best Western and Mattel ).

* Night Stalker video game ( 1982 )-featured in the print advertising for the Mattel video game for the IBM and Mac Nighstalker Ad

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, based on the popular line of Mattel toys, opened up a vibrant new North American market for first-run television syndication for animation in the 1980s.