Toys

This hasn’t been the best run-up to a holiday season for Toys R’ Us

Posted on by Ted Bauer

“I don’t wanna grow up … I’m a Toys R’ Us kid…” A seminal jingle from the 80s, no doubt. The reality as 2013 turns to 2014, holiday-season-style, is a little bit less good. First off, the economics are not… Continue Reading →

Lonnie Johnson, in some ways, could personify the ‘American Dream’

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Lonnie Johnson, who created the Super Soaker water gun, was awarded $72.9 million this week from Hasbro to settle a royalty dispute via arbitration. It all goes back to a 2001 inventors’ dispute in which Hasbro agreed to pay Johnson royalties… Continue Reading →