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Hasbro's Monopoly Contest Helps Struggling Company Beat Expectations

AP | Posted 04.22.2013 | Business

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Hasbro reported first-quarter results Monday that beat Wall Street expectations as the toy maker benefited from an online cont...

Moms Outraged Over Hot Wheels Misstep

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.13.2013 | Business

Hot Wheels is ā€œleading the wayā€ to gender inequality, according to some moms. The company is facing backlash after hosting a brunch for ā€œinfl...

LOOK: Popular Toy Brand Tweets Offensive Question

The Huffington Post | Farah L. Miller | Posted 03.09.2013 | Parents

Playskool, a division of Hasbro usually touted for bringing Mr. Potato Head into our children’s lives, found itself at the center of a Twitter fires...

The Crowd Picked a Cat. What Are Crowds Good for, Anyway?

Andrea Kates | Posted 04.22.2013 | Business
Andrea Kates

Is a cat the best decision for a Monopoly game piece? And thinking more broadly about crowds and commerce, when does it make sense and when does it NOT make sense to cast a wide net for input into business decisions?

Monopoly: Cat Got Your Iron?

Andrew J. Lederer | Posted 04.09.2013 | Weird News
Andrew J. Lederer

Okay, so now there's a cat instead of an iron. This isn't the first time they've changed the game pieces, though doing so flies in the face of the benefits of a monopoly. On Monopoly. One of the foundation board games of human experience. Seems desperate to me.

Catherine New

Iron Industry To Monopoly: We Are Still Hot

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 02.07.2013 | Small Business

At least one iron maker insisted the industry was still hot on Wednesday after Hasbro announced its plan to drop the iron piece from the Monopoly boar...

LOOK: Monopoly To Change Forever

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 03.11.2013 | Business

NEW YORK — The gig is almost up for one of the eight Monopoly tokens. But which will it be? Iron? Thimble? Top Hat? Or another of their board g...

Monopoly May Never Be The Same Again

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.09.2013 | Business

Next time you sit down for a game of Monopoly, savor the chance to be the cute little Scottie dog, top hat or thimble -- one of these pieces may soon ...

Alice Hines

Parents Shun Toy Guns After Newtown Shooting

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 12.21.2012 | Business

Three-year-old Jason Halili says he wants to be a police officer when he grows up. The New York City boy already has the requisite gear -- a uniform,...

Hasbro Makes Big Announcement After 13-Year-Old's Petition Goes Viral

AP | MICHELLE R. SMITH | Posted 02.16.2013 | Parents

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hasbro says it will soon reveal a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven after meeting with a New Jersey girl who started a campaign callin...

WATCH: Chefs Call For Gender-Neutral Easy-Bake Oven

AP | By MICHELLE R. SMITH | Posted 02.10.2013 | Home

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl's call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven. ...

WATCH: An Adorable Plea To Put Boys On Easy-Bake Oven Boxes

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 12.03.2012 | Business

Around Christmas eyes turn to toys, and it's hard to buck tradition: Boys get cars and tools and girls get dolls and cupcake stuff. One precocious ...

6-Year-Old Has An Axe To Grind With Toy Company

Posted 11.21.2012 | Parents

These days, it seems the front lines in the war on gender bias are manned by little girls. Their weapon of choice? Words. The latest example of thi...

My Brother Invented "G.I. Joe." Really!

Jay Weston | Posted 12.12.2012 | Los Angeles
Jay Weston

My brother invented G.I. Joe. He is four years younger than me and has always been reluctant to blow his own horn, so the whole true story of this fantastic accomplishment has never been told... until now!

ReThink Review: Battleship: Interplanetary War on Human Eardrums

Jonathan Kim | Posted 07.18.2012 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

Battleship succeeds in being big, dumb, and extremely loud, and after The Avengers, we should all be expecting a lot more.

The Hungry Hungry Hippos Games

Laurence Hughes | Posted 07.11.2012 | Comedy
Laurence Hughes

The movie The Hunger Games has inspired a number of mash-ups that mix the film with a certain children's game. It's time the meme was extended to the original novel.

Toy Company To Make Millions Off 'Battleship' Movie

Reuters | Posted 07.03.2012 | Entertainment

* "Battleship," "G.I. Joe" hit theaters this summer * "Transformers" movies generated $1.6 bln in toy sales * Hasbro spe...

Giddy Up! My Little Pony Rides Into Los Angeles

Susan Michals | Posted 06.30.2012 | Arts
Susan Michals

My Little Pony, the doe-eyed, sweet little pinnacle of sexually ambiguous innocence, will be the center of attention at Hasbro's MY LITTLE PONY Project 2012, a charity art exhibition.

From Candy Land To Monopoly: Board Games Getting Movie Buzz

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.13.2012 | Entertainment

"Battleship," Peter Berg's sci-fi naval war adventure, is loosely based on the beloved Hasbro game of the same name. Well, actually, the film has very...

Netflix Adds Some Major Saturday Morning Cartoons

The Huffington Post | Jason Gilbert | Posted 04.10.2012 | Technology

It' Saturday morning! Pour some cereal into your favorite bowl and gather 'round the television to watch some...Netflix? The online movie and telev...

'Bronies': Teen Boys Who Love My Little Ponies

The Wall Street Journal | Vauhini Vara and Ann Zimmerman | Posted 01.04.2012 | Home

15 young men in this hotbed of activism gathered at an Indian restaurant on a recent Sunday and made an appeal: Could the waiter please switch the TV ...

Hasbro Turns Over a New Leaf, Steps Up For Rainforests

Philip Radford | Posted 01.02.2012 | Green
Philip Radford

Until Asia Pulp & Paper cleans up its act, Greenpeace will make sure more and more companies join Hasbro in setting high standards to ensure the paper they use is not wiping away rainforests.

Hasbro My3D Device Promises 3D On iPod

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

NEW YORK — Hasbro Inc. is betting that iPod and iPhone users want 3-D viewing on the go. The nation's second-largest toy maker is set to unveil...

Immigration Insider | Election Day: Dirty Dozen, March to the Polls

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Frank Sharry

Check out America's Voice’s new weekly resource, "Immigration Insider," which takes an in-depth look at immigration politics. SUBSCRIBE to recei...

Amanda Terkel

DO NOT PASS 'GO': Sharron Angle Gets Cease And Desist Letter From Hasbro

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Toymaker Hasbro has sent Sharron Angle's Senate campaign a cease and desist letter, saying the Nevada Republican never received permissi...