** 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.

Mattel purchased the company in 1999 for $ 3. 8 billion from entrepreneur Kevin O ' Leary, renaming it " Mattel Interactive ", in what has been called one of the worst acquisitions in corporate history.

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

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.

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.

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

* Mattel Auto Race-an early handheld developed prior to Microvision.

Mattel sued MGA Entertainment for $ 500 million, alleging that Bratz creator Carter Bryant was working for Mattel when he developed the idea for Bratz.

On April 14, 1982, CPI and Mattel entered into a termination agreement which provided that " all materials created and or developed by Mattel for use in connection with products under the Conan License " would be delivered to CPI's agent, CPC, which would have " the exclusive right to use such material.

Cyan, Inc. and Mattel ( then the owner of the Myst and Riven franchise ) offered the task of developing the sequel to several development companies ; according to Game Developer, interested parties developed proposals including story concepts, analysis of the first two games, technology discussion, and technology demonstration.

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.

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

The PlayStation game was Rock ' em Sock ' em Robots Arena, published by Mattel Interactive, and was developed by Paradox Development using their successful game engine from the completed but canceled Thrill Kill video game.

It was developed by Beam Software and published by Mattel.

Adaptations of this game have been developed and released for the Atari 2600 under the M Network banner, and for the Mattel Aquarius.

When the character was developed by Mattel, the name of Beast Man was reused from a figure in Mattel's earlier Flash Gordon toy line.

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 ).

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.

Mattel produced many Thingmaker sets as follow-ups to the original " Creepy Crawlers " throughout the 1960s, utilizing a variety of themes, aimed at both boys and girls.

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

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.

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 ".

* 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.

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.