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VOTING NOW OPEN FOR THE 2021 TOY & GAME INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS - the TAGIEs People of Play (POP) are now accepting votes for the innovative and inspiring TAGIE nominees. Vote for your fa...

It was Toy Fair a few years back, and as has often the custom when I dine with folks from the Old Company, stories began to surface about Ramon.  A truly larger-than-life Cuban-American, Ramon wa...

  A makeshift backyard birthday party favor accidentally launched Texas-based entrepreneur and current VP of Sales and Marketing at Zing, Beaver Raymond, into the toy business!   In 200...

It’s About Time! What’s Time Management? “Time management” refers to the way that you organize and plan how long you spend on specific activities.  The benefits are enor...

The Charades Parade! My mother, Dorothy “Dot” Garman, LOVED the game of charades, much to the chagrin of the rest of our family.  When Dot brought up playing, you would hear the most...

Meet Andrew Innes| Celebrating 1 Million Anomia Games Sold Win Your Very Own Custom Anomia Game! Andrew Innes started Anomia Press in May of 2009. However, a lot happened before that. He came up wit...

Reuben Klamer, toy industry icon and inventor of the classic board game The Game of Life, died at home in La Jolla, CA on September 14, 2021. He was 99 and left this world reluctantly, telling a recen...

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The commute up to the Disney offices in Burbank was always a pain, so I usually headed out early.  On this particular morning, I was already in the car by 6 am.  The local news was saying so...

Creative Problem Solving:  Think Differently! Convergent and Divergent Thinking Both convergent and divergent thinking are instrumental in the brainstorming process. Neither one is more importa...