Articles for tag: Buyer Beware, Hasbro

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Hasbro Customer Service: Buyer Beware

Hasbro, to anyone with children it is a household name. Hasbro has been the toy manufacturer since the mid 1920’s. Children who grew up playing with the toys and games from the Hasbro family became adult customers who bought Hasbro’s toys for their children and grandchildren. Hasbro is a company built on decades of loyal ...

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Review of Hasbro’s Playskool Charlie Coal the Talking Grill

The Playskool Charlie Coal The Talking Grill by Hasbro is a great seasonal gift for the spring. Even better news for you parents out there though, it’s an indoor toy so it will get used all year long. Hasbro’s Playskool Charlie Coal The Talking Grill allows kids from ages six months to six years the ...

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Scrabble Slam Card Game: Product Review

I love playing Scrabble. I can’t imagine any writer not loving a game that revolves around words. That’s why, when I saw a TV commercial for the Scrabble Slam Card Game, I knew I had to buy it. Just like the original Scrabble, the object of this game is to make up words out of ...

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Star Wars Galactic Heroes from Hasbro: The Best Star Wars Toys in Years

Since Hasbro obtaining the license, from Kenner, to make Star Warts toys, Star Wars collecting has taken a dive for the worse. They produce way to many items and most are just the same figures over and over in different packages. Only the most obsessed, and weird, collectors would even bother to purchase everything. The ...

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Butterscotch FurReal Pony Not Woth $300

Hasbro Toy Company’s FurReal friends is best known for its robotic life like toy creations of animals. This winter Hasbro Toy Company is introducing their newest FurReal creation which exceeds any previous FuReal toy creation, and this new creation is Butterscotch the FurReal Pony. Butterscotch is not just your ordinary play pony, at first sight ...

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Replacing Lost Toys and Pieces

Every home comes equipped with its own miniature black hole. Into this void disappear socks, remote control battery covers, and the tiny pieces to toys and board games. More often than not, the most important pieces, the ones without which the toy will not function, are the very pieces that vanish. Rather than putting those ...

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Why I Collect “My Little Pony” Toys

As someone who turns up her nose at gender-stereotyped toys and mass-produced plastic commoditites, I would probably be the last grown woman you’d expect to have a My Little Pony collection. While this is something that I generally keep “on the down-low” because it’s, frankly, a sort of odd hobby, I can’t get enough of ...

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G.I. Joe a Collector Doll Made for Boys

Hasbro had a lot going against it as it made the first GI Joe. First, would boys play with a doll? And second, would people think a doll representing war was appropriate? In 1964 the company gambled on the doll hoping it would have the same success as the Barbie Doll. It started off slow, ...