Creators know that the surest sign their show has a network’s support is when the merchandise starts rolling out, so Cartoon Network’s recent announcement of Steven Universe merchandise is a strong ...

Cartoon Network is back with its annual holiday toy give-away offering the chance to kids to win a truckload of Hasbro toys. But there’s a catch: Entrants have to act fast. Tommy and Tara, who host ...

If you hang around TV fans long enough, you’ll eventually hear the snobbier ones disdainfully describe classic shows that were made “just to sell toys.” The implication is clear: if a show was made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1984 is perhaps the most pivotal pop culture year in memory. So many of the movies, music, and television series debuting that ...

What comes first for a modern franchise, cartoon, toys or video games? The popular brands in my family seem to come at us from different directions. Skylanders has gone from strength to strength ...

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 ...

When children of the ’80s discuss their favorite toy lines with tie-in cartoons, Defenders of the Earth isn’t necessarily high on the list. More a cult favorite than anything else, it’s notable for ...

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 ...