1984 is perhaps the most pivotal pop culture year in memory. So many of the movies, music, and television series debuting that year had an incredible impact, and their legacy continues to this day.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. Skylanders has gone from strength to strength without a big film franchise to ...

Bernard Loomis, an influential toy marketer who, by turning advertisements for toys into children’s cartoon programming, was dubbed “the man who invented Saturday morning,” died of heart disease June ...

The historic toy collection attracts visitors from across Connecticut and other states too. It has holiday hours.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. What is most compelling here for young audiences is not only the tie-in, but ...

Hasbro is releasing a set of four action figures featuring characters from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. The new Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Classics line will include three heroes from the ...

As a kid, I had no clue that the Saturday morning cartoons I watched religiously were glorified toy commercials all gussied up in action-packed animation and laser gun shoot-em-ups, and I wouldn't ...

Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their “Toy Story” pals are back on the big screen in a new adventure. The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Michael Keaton, Joan Cusack and other stars are featured ...

The '90s were filled with all kinds of now-forgotten cartoons, but this animated series was a bizarre mashup of Jurassic Park and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — and 28 years later, it's still epic.

It’s not just enough to make a good cartoon any more. Too often, animated shows are dependent on selling action figures in order to stay on the air, ratings (and quality) be damned. Here are seven ...

Toy company Hasbro licensed transforming robot toys from the Japanese company Takara, which had already existed in that country since 1980. But in America, Hasbro wanted a whole mythology to go with ...