Walking through “Kaiju vs Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey Through the World of Japanese Toys” at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, it’s hard not to be overcome […]
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Hello Kitty Cosplays as Sanrio Characters for McDonald’s Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Hello Kitty has been on a roll this year, celebrating her 40th birthday by holding her first convention in America and preparing to […]
South Korean ‘Kidults’ Obsess Over Kids’ Toys
by STEVE HAN | @steve_han editor@charactermedia.com When Shim Sung-min first met Lee Hannah, he was taken aback by his wife-to-be’s odd hobby. A 33-year-old Lee had an intense longing […]
GoldieBlox Makes AMAZING Commercial For Girl Engineers
The GoldieBlox girls are back and more amazing than ever. Debbie Sterling, a female engineer, decided to create GoldieBlox after realizing that toys for girls rarely focused on things […]
Move Over, Barbie: Lego Debuts Its First Female Scientist
We can all let out a collective cheer for one of the newest additions to the Lego family. Professor C. Bodin, according to her name tag, is Lego’s first […]
Chinese Factory Workers and “The Real Toy Story”
Nearly 75% of the worlds toys are made in China. With so many of these plastic toys available to us at ease, we often forget the hard labor that […]
A Future For Female Engineers
There seems to be no argument here- the engineer world is dominated by males. When I was an undergrad in college, this fact became extremely obvious. In an engineer […]