Discover 4 iconic 1980s cartoons whose incredible toy lines took their worlds to another level, including M.A.S.K., ...

If you were a kid in the 1980s, you probably remember Saturday mornings the same way: pouring a huge bowl of your favorite cereal, plopping down in front of the TV in your Underoos or character ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Transformers brand no longer carries much weight among serious media connoisseurs, but it’s still impossible to deny that the original Transformers cartoon—dubbed “Generation One”—was not only one ...

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Forty years later, the toys, cartoons, and comics that debuted in the year 1984 continue to dominate pop culture in many ways. 1984 is perhaps the most pivotal pop culture year in memory. So many of ...