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The Frozen 2 nightmare just became a reality ...
Mattel has been terrified of Frozen 2 for the past few years. HAHA! The nightmare just became a reality https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/frozen-ii-powers-through-box-office-records-104237138.html Bye Bye Barbie. enjoy your Q4 results... — read more
When Comcast buys us does Lawandus take over as CEO?
Was that his genius endgame?
Thoughts on leaving the toy industry?
Anyone have any thoughts or experience leaving the toy industry? I've worked on the product design side of the toy biz for around 15 years, thinking about next steps career wise and have a hard time imagining a smooth transition to a different... — read more
Mattel Layoffs 2020
What's your prediction as it relates to the possiblity of Mattel Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?
Intellivision speculation?
I keep seeing rumors online that Mattel is getting ready to relaunch the Intellivision video game console for Christmas 2020 to go head to head with the PS5 and next Xbox. Supposedly it'll be running an AMD CPU chip set based on Ryzen with 8x cores... — read more
Ynons Move
What happens with Mattel if Ynon goes in 6 months?
Honest mistake or pure fraud?
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/11/06/mattel-pricewaterhousecoopers-buried-accounting-issues.html#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s
YAWN
Will they sell the company next year if CEO and CFO are away?
Crooked CFO due to get $20M?
So, this is disgusting if true ...
Factories
What will happen with the factories? Are there layoffs?
Mattel was the greatest toy company
What happened to new, out of the box thinking and wacky ideas. When you think back on the famous Mattel IP, Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Rainbow Brite, Monster High, there was such great imaginative stuff. Now, nothing! What... — read more
Movies?
Does anyone know what's happening with all of the movies Ynot keeps talking about? I think there has been eight movies announced but I can't find anything out about any of them except that there was a press release. No one that I know at Mattel has... — read more
Don't bother posting anything honest or negative here
MGA must be paying the layoff.com. If you notice, no one is able to respond negatively or at all to any post on the MGA board. No one has responded to any posts at MGA layoff for five years! Don't feed the trolls that Larian has installed here. — read more
CEO
Do they replace Ynon also?
Anyone else buying MAT ahead of earnings call?
I've got a good feeling about this, the fact that the call is on a Tuesday instead of the typical Friday suggests they don't feel like they need the weekend market downtime to help quell the price drop that typically happens afterhours after they... — read more
Next CEO
My kid works at Subway. He's a manager, also makes a k–ler sandwich. He's outperformed and made more money than Mattel for the past 3 years. Proud papa here. He's young, bright, polite, knows how to handle money and keep customers and employees... — read more
Marvelous Job, Ynon & Team!
Ynon: You and your crack management team (Dirckson, Down & Goodman) have done a fabulous job turning us around! Thank you so much for all your hard work, you have made us all so very proud! We're expecting nice bonuses, maybe even a Christmas... — read more
Mattel’s Time Is Running Out Amid Federal Securities Probe, And Not Even Barbie Can Save It
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2019/10/22/-mattel-federal-securities-probe-bankruptcy/ Thoughts?
Another great idea...
not done by HotWheels or FP https://toyworldmag.co.uk/news/little-tikes-launches-little-stiglet-campaign/
Experimental Marketing: event sponsorships, branded pop-ups, brand collaborations and augmented reality
What are your thoughts on Experimental Marketing efforts?
Barbie's New BFF? It's Pat!
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/its-pat-birthday-party/3505906
L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls had a good run...
but now that Mattel's releasing dolls little girls really want, transgender children dolls, they'll be in the clearance bin before Black Friday. Sorry iSack, you loose this round, better luck next year.
Hot Wheels down -9.3%
YTD Hot Wheels is down -9.3%. Wonder if this will mark another layoff for the team.
About time for Fisher-Price
Great to see the investment in Fisher-Price brand equity. Really nice work I hope moves the needle. It's still tough out there, but finally some love and attention.
2019 Top Toy Lists
Just scanned through the top toy lists at Amazon, Target and Walmart. Considering the size of Mattel and number of brands, their representation among the lists seems to be quite minimal. What are the expectations to close out the year? I'm... — read more
Whistleblower, what's happening?
Have they forgotten about the whistleblower? How has nothing been said since?
Barbie marketers and designers: you should be embarrassed
Not only does your brand not sustain itself, but now you’re perpetuating the myth that there is a collector market (after you over proliferated it for years). Your liberal placating of critics who will never stop criticizing Barbie, with... — read more
Barbie is DEAD?!!!
Oh, sorry - it’s the Day if the Dead Barbie, another stupid, non-commercially viable liberal stunt concocted by Richard and executed by his @$$ puppet, Lisa. Bashing Barbie is now too easy when they give you the baseball bat in the name. There’s... — read more
Star Wars Barbie and HotWheels ID - already being closed out?
I heard that Mattel has been caught artificially bolstering sales of both by having employees and agency personnel buy up product and post false reviews. Apparently this isn't the first time they been accused of this. As a result, Target (who was... — read more
Don't panic everyone ... Tom Hanks will save us
Seriously though. Is this a joke? https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/09/08/tom-hanks-to-star-in-mattels-major-matt-mason-movie/ Anyone even heard of this IP??????
Does the place still have running water?
When I think of Mattel I imagine a village of gollums looking for an invisible ring. Jump in the lava and be done with it you poor and unfortunate souls.
New Fisher-Price logo?
Can anyone explain the strange new Fisher-Price logo that has all lowercase letters and in a box with only 3 scallops instead 4? Looks like kind of like trash. Why do the folks at FP feel the need to constantly fiddle with their brand identity yet... — read more
Waxing poetic: Why castoffs can’t let go
I look on social media and see ex employees missing the NY office, talking about what once was in ES, AG, EA, blah blah blah. I hate to say it but my last 3 years at mattel were hell. Massive stress, constant internal questioning of my skills... — read more
What's going on with layoffs?
Little to no mention here lately.
Mattel Hates MGA!
Arrogant Mattel so despises MGA that it asks potential employees and vendors if they have ever worked for MGA, even freelance or temp work. If you say yes, Mattel simply will not hire you. Everyone knows this, so there's a simple workaround: just say... — read more
Smart, Hasbro!
Look what Hasbro just did. This is what FP should be doing. FP needs content. https://newsroom.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-acquire-entertainment-one-adding-brands-and-expanding?linkId=72470547
How Low will it Go
Now heading back to single digits. This company is a complete disaster. Huge salaries, declining sales, fake financial reporting, everyone interviewing. Activists don't even care any longer. This is a well-run machine.
Anyone know what the European Am*zon team actually do in europe?
So many people for so little reward! Yes the account may be in growth, but surely they just talk to computer/algorithms really? Definitely an area of over resourcing!
Hot Wheels id?
I heard sales of Hot Wheels id at Apple stores are way stronger than forecasts, as they roll out to more retailers ahead of Xmas could it be that Mattel finally has a legit hit toy on their hands for holiday '19?