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Annual injuries from backyard trampolines have nearly doubled in the past decade, according to researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Nearly 75,000 kids now end up in emergency rooms each year because of such injuries, more than 2,000 of which are serious enough to require hospitalization...
Cost of a Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater toy produced by Hasbro...
...Monopoly Pricing Just in time for holiday gift buying, a British appeals tribunal upheld a ruling made by regulators against two retailers fined for fixing prices in conjunction with the toy firm Hasbro. The regulators say their earlier decision lowered the price of the board game Monopoly by about $8 a set. One retailer, Argos, said it might roll the dice and file a further appeal...
...video-game platform aimed at kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow, and has been putting classic games like Battleship, Boggle and Yahtzee into handheld electronic format...
...which should help them avoid profit-killing sales. Recent price surveys suggest that Toys "R" Us is more competitive with Wal-Mart this year, and Wal-Mart appears to be devoting less shelf space to its Kid Connection private-label toys--good news for brand names like Mattel and Hasbro. A weakening buck may also translate overseas sales into higher profits when converted back into dollars...