• Who will buy Entertainment Rights? (The Daily Telegraph)
• Kids direct-to-video biz faring well (Variety)
• Mattel announces more creation-friendly kid products at CES (Gizmodo)
• They’ve grown accustomed to their deals? (Washington Post/AP)
• MGA can sell Bratz until December 31, then over to Mattel (Wall Street Journal)
• Price pressures for online display and search advertising (MediaPost)
• Home video sales take a dive in 2008 (Variety)
• The most frequently played games on the Wii’s Nintendo Channel (MTV Multiplayer)
• The Dark Knight garners best picture nom by the Producers Guild of America (Forbes/AP)
• Watch out for the upcoming Chinese fake brand shopping center (Daily Mirror)
• Mattel introduces mind control to its toys at CES (The Telegraph)
• And now, a clip from Kure Kure Takora, a 1970s Japanese kids show (BoingBoing.net)
• Following the decline of KB Toys, Hong Kong toymakers turn to Li & Fung for compensation (AFP)
• Hasbro’s growth plans in the face of the flailing economy (CNNMoney.com)
• This will be Wolverine’s year (Toronto Star)
• Attendance at this year’s CES already down…(Reuters)
• …meanwhile, Blu-ray’s future remains on shaky ground (New York Times)
• 11-year-old Sonic the Hedgehog fan fights Kansas City Hall to legalize pet hedgehog (KTKA)
• Testing costs for toxicity in toys could put manufacturers out of business (L.A. Times)
• Blast from the past: Vintage toys from the V&A Museum of Childhood in west London (BBC)
• Hong Kong Disneyland to expand by a third of its size? (Wall Street Journal)
• Watch out for that Storm Trooper kick-line in the upcoming Star Wars Musical (Yahoo! News)
• Did you miss A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa? Catch it online! (Muppet Newsflash)
• Adults are never too old for toys and the stats exist to prove it (Daily Gazette)
• Electronic Arts to slash 1,000 jobs and close nine facilities (L.A. Times)
• Toys still holding up, just days before Christmas (Forbes/AP)
• Toy recalls of 2007 still not forgotten (Washington Post)
• A look at the new GameStop stores (Kotaku.com)
• Blast from the past: a Lego commercial featuring Zack the Lego Manic (BoingBoing.net)
• A look at the opportunities in the kids edu-tainment sector (Forbes)
• Video games helped boost the music industry: NDP Group (PC Mag)
• ‘Advertising depression’ on the way (Smart Money)
• Panasonic buys 70% stake in Sanyo (Wall Street Journal)
• Help select the 100 greatest Looney Tunes (Cartoon Brew)
• Get a whiff of Burger King’s new Flame cologne body spray (Serious Eats)
• Wall-E continues topping critics’ pre-Oscar best-of lists (Variety)
• Muppets’ A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa reviewed (New York Times)
• What’s going down at DreamWorks? (Variety)
• Walmart’s bargain deals raise holiday retail sales outlook (Reuters)
• Disney’s Bolt iPhone adver-game posts 700,000 downloads (MediaPost)
• 50 Fashionable Years exhibit featuring Barbie to open at Baltimore museum (Baltimore Examiner)
• Holy Blu-ray Batman! The Dark Knight Blu-ray sales soar (MarketWatch)
• Best Buy shares are up, but can it sustain them? (CNNMoney)
• Toys ‘R’ Us Asia halts expansion plans (Bloomberg)
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Burlesque Muppets? (L.A. Weekly)
• This Barbie’s for the birds. Hitchcock’s The Birds, that is (BoingBoing.net)
• Want your kid’s name on a birthday cake? Don’t name him Adolf Hitler (Yahoo! News)
• Bakugan to hit the big screen (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Twilight sequel date confirmed, prepping for Thanksgiving movie wars (Variety)
• Breaking down the trailer for X-Men Legends: Wolverine (MTV.com)
• Analysts predict more discounts closer to Christmas (New York Times)
• Rumors of a Sony PSP 4000 in the works (PC World)
• Hasbro drops Scrabulous suit (Associated Press)
• 4-year-old breaks into Family Dollar at 3 a.m. to play with toys (Fox4News)
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