LEGO Group and Netflix build KPop Demon Hunters sets
Talk about a golden partnership. The Danish brick-maker has teamed up with Netflix to make sets (pictured) inspired by the streamer’s megahit movie, with a first SKU that features some of the supernatural creatures from the film launching this summer, followed by a wider range in 2027.
Finding Her Edge skates into a second season
Netflix has renewed its teen/YA skating drama Finding Her Edge, following season one’s January 22 launch. The live-action show focuses on a teen ice dancer training for the Junior World Championships whose heart is torn between her former and current skating partners. Based on a same-name YA novel by Jennifer Iacopelli, WildBrain produces the series with Jeff Norton as its showrunner.
Hasbro deals with Amazon MGM Studios for Voltron toys
The studio’s has granted Hasbro the rights to make action figures, toys and roleplay figures based on its upcoming live-action Voltron movie. Tim Kilpin, the toyco’s president of toys, games and licensed entertainment, has been firing on all cylinders lately, between this partnership and the one for Street Fighter toys that was announced on Monday. Voltron (no release date yet) is about five robot lions that can combine to become a giant robot and battle a variety of evil-doers.
BBC Studios gets busy in the kitchen with more Bluey products
Handstand Kitchen is expanding its licensed range of Bluey baking and kitchen tools to include a baking set, reusable cake/cupcake molds and cookie-cutters, kid-sized aprons and oven mitts that will hit retail in July. The manufacturer launched an initial Bluey range last summer that became its all-time best-performing collection.
Tree Town Toys is making Peanuts products
The toyco is creating a licensed version of its classic Yes & Know brand of invisible ink game books featuring Peanuts characters. Due out across North America this summer, each one offers 24 pages of games and activities that kids can reveal with a special marker. Tree Town relaunched this ’70s product last year. The company also licensed Peanuts characters like Charlie Brown and Snoopy for its SpinAnimator Studio projector system that lets kids color in film reels and then feed them into the projector to come to life.
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