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Bulldog Appoints Alex Salisbury as Senior Licensing Manager and Promotes Sophie Yates to Brand Manager

Bulldog Licensing, one of the licensing industry’s leading agencies, has welcomed Alex Salisbury to its team as Senior Licensing Manager, covering categories such as Publishing and Toys for all brands. Alex Salisbury joins Bulldog fresh from a three-month trip travelling around Southeast Asia. Before her well-earned break, she had been at Paramount since 2017, where she held roles as Retail Licensing Manager (UK and Eire), Senior Category Manager (Hardlines, UK and Eire) and Senior Category Manager (Toys, EMEA and ANZ, part of the Global Toy Team). Prior to that, Alex’s roles at Wicked and Mattel ensure that she has a wealth of experience to bring to her new role at Bulldog.

Godzilla Fashions Hit the Runway at Milan Fashion Week for Dhruv Kapoor Autumn/Winter 2023 Collection

India’s leading contemporary brand Dhruv Kapoor launches a Godzilla collaboration as part of their Autumn/Winter 2023 menswear collection on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week. Dhruv Kapoor’s work remains an exuberant reflection of contemporary society upholding values of liberty, vitality, eternity, and the realization of our highest potential as individuals and community. Through collaboration with the Godzilla brand, this transgressive message explores “Awakening.” At the intersection of high fashion and pop culture, Dhruv Kapoor x Godzilla includes iconic character art such as Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Mechagodzilla, uniting cutting-edge contemporary design with the rich heritage of Godzilla first appearing on the silver screen in 1954 in Japan’s Gojira. Since then, over 35 films have been made spurring a multi-billion-dollar franchise and global fandom that has continued to grow over several decades.

Shashibo is Now Going Wild with New Series

Building on the ongoing success of Shashibo as the industry’s #1 creative fidget toy, Fun in Motion Toys has now introduced its Wild Series, with four new cubes featuring our planet’s unique environments: Arctic, Forest, Jungle and Savanna. Nature’s secrets can be puzzling, so what better way explore them than collecting and connecting all of them with Shashibo Wild?

WildBrain CPLG Partners with the Playmobil Brand for Global Licensing Representation

WildBrain CPLG, a world-leading entertainment, sport and brand licensing agency, is to handle worldwide rights of Playmobil as the master licensee for the renowned IP. The partnership spans across both the core and franchise Playmobil brands from the Horst Brandstätter Group, including Wiltopia, Novelmore, Adventures of Ayuma, and more. Starting from April 1, 2023, WildBrain CPLG will expand the Playmobil brand into new categories across merchandise, publishing, location-based experiences and promotions.

Chefclub Acquires Five New Toy Distribution Partners

Chefclub, Europe’s leading food-themed content studio is delighted to announce five new toy distribution partners in the form of White Knight Toys (USA), Autruche (Canada), Hutter Trade (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), JPM Toys (Benelux), and CMC (the Middle East). The companies will be the exclusive domestic agents for Chefclub’s unique line of kids cooking utensils entirely designed to give children independence in the kitchen.

Ravensburger AG Expands Executive Bench Strength with Filip Francke and Stephane Madi in New Positions

Ravensburger AG, one of the world’s leading makers of toys, puzzles, and games, has announced an expansion to their executive structure. Filip Francke will lead the company’s rapidly growing gaming division as Global Head of Games. His role within Ravensburger AG will expand to focus on all the company’s gaming ventures, including the company’s highly anticipated entry into the billion-dollar trading card game (TCG) market later this year with Disney Lorcana. Concurrently, Stephane Madi, formerly Head of Ravensburger Canada, has been named as CEO of Ravensburger North America, where he will oversee the company’s portfolio and operations in the United States and Canada.

Spin Master to Acquire the HEXBUG Brand and Portfolio of Creative Robotic Technology

Spin Master Corporation, a leading global children’s entertainment company, announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the HEXBUG brand of toys from award-winning toy company, Innovation First International, Inc. First entering the market in 2007, HEXBUG products feature robotic technology with ingenious movement inspired by nature, giving kids a whimsical and imaginative play experience. HEXBUG products appeal to kids’ innate love for remote control and fast-moving creatures that exhibit fascinating life-like behavior. With over 100 different toys that range from buildable playsets to battling robots, HEXBUG products bring fun and excitement to robotics and foster children’s creativity to fuel hours of imaginative playtime.

Super Impulse Brings Fans the “Mashup” They’ve Been Looking For With Poptaters!

Super Impulse, makers of World’s Smallest and the leader in miniature toys and collectibles, creates the ultimate fan mashup by combining the iconic Potato Head from Hasbro with a series of pop culture classics, to create hilarious, fun collectibles called Poptaters. Fans can get their hands on four “mashed” potatoes: KISS Gene Simmons, Transformers Optimus Prime, Bob Ross, and Garbage Pail Kid (GPK) Adam Bomb! Each Poptater includes an authentic Potato Head featuring interchangeable facial and body parts, including one surprise original piece!

WowWee Launches MINTiD Dog-E, The One-in-a-Million Robot Dog, at CES 2023

Dog-E was launched at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) by WowWee — a global innovator of robotic toys and consumer entertainment products. Dog-E is a groundbreaking robot dog that is unique to every owner as a result of over a million possible combinations of colorful lights, sounds, and personality traits. Dog-E is a smart, app-connected robot dog with life-like movements, audio sensors to hear sounds, touch sensors on its head, nose and sides of its body, and a POV (persistence of vision) tail that displays icons and messages to communicate. As soon as you turn on Dog-E, your all-white pup comes to life through the minting process, which reveals its unique colors and characteristics. The minting process can begin by petting its head, touching its nose, or playing with it, among a long list of other interactions.