When you think of a giant toy company, usually names like Mattel, Ideal, or Hasbro jump to mind. One company usually doesn’t pop up immediately, because they don’t play up their corporate name the same way the others do. But Jakks Pacific has been a huge player in toys and games for over 20 years. […]
For many years, Deadpool was seen as one of the secondary Marvel comics characters, someone fans might even confuse with Spider-Man because of his red suit. But when he got his own standalone movie, he became one of the biggest stars of the Marvel Universe. For that incredible stunt, Deadpool is a 2016 inductee of […]
NECA, The National Entertainment Collectibles Association, is one of inductees of the Pop Culture Hall of Fame for 2016. Their name sounds like a trade association, but they are actually one of the heavy hitters in the toy and action figure industry. NECA began in 1996 when former MacFarlane Toys Senior Designer Randy Falk decided to start […]
Randy Falk , Senior Designer at NECA, is the latest inductee of the Pop Culture Hall of Fame for 2016. While he was in college, Falk started a mail order company to sell action figures and started creating his own custom designs. “I’ve been a lifelong collector and fan of collectible toys,” he said. “I […]
Jordan Hembrough, best known as the host of “Toy Hunter,” is the latest inductee of the Pop Culture Hall of Fame. On his reality show, Hembrough toured the U.S. in search of rare, valuable, interesting toys and collectibles. As a teenager, his obsession with comic books and movies came to a head when he saw […]
Bonnie Zacherle is an American illustrator and designer best known as the original creator of the My Little Pony toy line. In the late 1970s, Bonnie started as a full time artist at Rust Craft Greeting Cards. She also did freelance illustration on the side and managed to get some side work for Hasbro. In 1981, Zacherle conceptualized and sketched […]
