Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1984 is perhaps the most pivotal pop culture year in memory. So many of the movies, music, and television series debuting that ...

Creators know that the surest sign their show has a network’s support is when the merchandise starts rolling out, so Cartoon Network’s recent announcement of Steven Universe merchandise is a strong ...

Cartoon Network is back with its annual holiday toy give-away offering the chance to kids to win a truckload of Hasbro toys. But there’s a catch: Entrants have to act fast. Tommy and Tara, who host ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. Skylanders has gone from strength to strength without a big film franchise to ...

If you hang around TV fans long enough, you’ll eventually hear the snobbier ones disdainfully describe classic shows that were made “just to sell toys.” The implication is clear: if a show was made ...

Hasbro is releasing a set of four action figures featuring characters from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. The new Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Classics line will include three heroes from the ...

Bernard Loomis, an influential toy marketer who, by turning advertisements for toys into children’s cartoon programming, was dubbed “the man who invented Saturday morning,” died of heart disease June ...

Hanazuki: Full of Treasures combines toys, tech and cartoons to help children express and understand their moods. A new run of episodes for Series 1 is today confirmed to start on May 19th and a ...

Bernard Loomis, 82, a legendary toy marketer who, by turning advertisements for toys into children's cartoon programming, was dubbed "the man who invented Saturday morning," died of heart disease June ...

Toy company Hasbro licensed transforming robot toys from the Japanese company Takara, which had already existed in that country since 1980. But in America, Hasbro wanted a whole mythology to go with ...