Mattel, Inc.

Jill E Barad

Keith Alan Hippely

John D Watson

Robin K Smith

Brian Paul Channell

Larry R Wood

Howard R Stern

Jean Chu

Prodromos Papavasiliou

Li Tak Chee

Joe Scully

Darian Pasterski

Simon Cheung Shu Keun

Greg Vineyard

Roy Kaneshiro

Nancie Martin

Jeanette Corcuera

Colin Vowles

A personalized toy and a method for marketing a toy through the use of computer screen images, and of manufacturing a personalized toy. The personalized toy is manufactured as ordered by a customer. Several different configurations of components that may be assembled as part of a finished toy are provided. Computer screen images of the different configurations of at least one of the components are displayed on a computer, and a customer viewing the displayed images is allowed to record a selected configuration of component, to be assembled as part of the personalized toy. A representational image of the toy incorporating the selected configuration may be displayed.

Personalized toys and methods for manufacturing and delivering the same

A toy painted with paint containing thermochromic material which changes color as the temperature of the toy varies. Selected portions of the toy may be painted with the thermochromic material to provide a variety of patterns, designs, numbers, letters or other indicia which change color in response to temperature variations. In addition, different portions of the toy may be painted with different paints containing different colored thermochromic materials.

Toy with thermochromic material

A bubble dispensing doll includes a hollow torso and head configured to resemble a mermaid. The doll head supports a quantity of simulated hair and a head piece ornament preferably formed in the configuration of a crown or the like. A bubble producing mechanism is formed into an integral self-supporting mechanism which is received and supported within an upper aperture of the doll's head. The majority of the bubble producing mechanism is received within the head and torso cavity of the doll and includes a battery-powered air impeller which drives an air stream through a foaming chamber within the bubble producing mechanism.

Bubble dispensing doll

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Pacific Palisades, CA, United States of America

Jill E Barad