I'm thinking of getting my Mother Mattle stock for Mother's Day. Tomorrow we're going out for brunch - I think I will give it to her right after my sister gives her her give. I know she really wanted Spin Master stock but it's just too high right... — read more 

Whatever usefulness this rumor board once had is lost in all the noise of complaints and HATE. Yes Mattel is screwed up. We get that. Are you rooting for us to fail? Take your energy elsewhere, all that hate & negativity is just NOISE. Go plant a... — read more 

This is an insult to Strategists and Officers (of any kind) alike. This is a guy who has accomplished NOTHING OF VALUE since he got to Mattel. He couldn't run HiT He couldn't make the Amazon/Fireman Sam deal work He sold $40M worth of HiT content for... — read more 

Do you really think Cars can pull in an incremental $300 mm? I get that the movie will be great, but are we really doing enough to innovate and sell toys? Isn't Spiderman coming to the shelves 2 weeks after Cars? Thoughts from anyone who has worked... — read more 

They have Disney Princess, Playskool, Starwars, Marvel, Transformers

Since Hot Wheels is the only brand in the company to turn a profit, they are clearly overstaffed. In typical Mattel fashion, half the group will be fired to assure a level playing ground across all brands. We all win or lose together! There is no H... — read more 

Mattel stock yields an amazing 6% dividend... possibly for the last time in mid-May. The dividend has been announced and hungry investors are licking their chops. That's the only good news on the horizon, the only reason to buy or hold the stock. As... — read more 

Time to flush these city sleckers and clean house while you still can. You are new to their shell game (AKA silos) but we the people have been witness their smooth-talking overpromising "personalities" for too long. Our laughable HR culture which... — read more 

https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=12782545&gfv=1 Sinking ship? Doesn't bode well for his view of long term prospects

After a dismal week of stock plummeting who WILL be held accountable. not who should. who's getting the axe first after the company kumbaya and ice cream party

When "Mr. Barbie" returns to Mattel as chief brands officer in May 2014, the company's stock is hovering just shy of $40 a share. It will be interesting to see where the stock price is come May 2017.

Out of all the misfires that RD and RG have authored, this is the greatest. Not a single project we're working on is on time, in cost or.....ANY GOOD. The reason? Toy Marketing people who think they how to manage a Brand. Having Toy Marketing... — read more 

Don't miss the FIREworks show Thursday after lunch. Our spin doctors are hard at work rewriting C-suiter sitrep speeches to talk investors out of abandoning the good ship Mattel. Games Richard d---son, President and Chief Operating Officer; and Kevin... — read more 

Mega-Construx is supposed to be the more serious version of Mega-Blocks. Problem is that the "Construx" name comes from a failed construction concept from the 80's and 90's that Fisher-Price happened to still own the trademark for. Just "warmed-over"... — read more 

Back in January 2016, an executive meeting in ES, RG paraded his mantra about executive and employee accountability and handed out the book "The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability" for all the officers... — read more 

For those of you who watched this insufferable, piece of contrived crap, we'd love to hear your take on it. It seems it's just a reflection of the soul of Mattel - empty, useless and contrived. I'm simply at a loss as to how these warmed-over... — read more 

We're all waiting and watching to see some actions and results. Don't be a bump on a log, Sinclair set the bar REAL low for you. It would help if we saw you walking around the various campuses, expressing an interest in understanding the people whose... — read more 

When the stock drops repeatedly below $25, it's difficult to keep resurrecting it when we keep shoveling more dollars into Barbie at the expense of all else. The team responsible for this was put together by RG, Head of HR. I think it's time for him... — read more 

it's coming folks. like it or not. m-go doesn't have big enough fingers to plug all the holes in this crack filled dam. how long before we start up with the bloodshed. there's not going to be rolling layoffs, this will be a culling of the herd, and... — read more 

seriously are you people that nuts that you're going to go and vandalize peoples cars in the parking garage? Don't you know that there are video cameras watching everything!

Mattel has never been one to follow the crowd! From https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/253694/mattel-mat-continues-to-decline-whats-hurting-the-stock ... Lack of innovative schemes for brand awareness and innovation has been affecting the company’s... — read more 

Does anyone know how to post images? I want to upload a beautiful photo of the Titanic.

Instead of incessantly complaining on this site, why don't you all get organized and strike?! The Board of Directors and the Management Team will not pay attention to your plight until you do something that takes some of their power away. Either... — read more 

I see all the hate on here and all the "good riddens" and all the "those s---ers are still there". How about a few thoughts of what you would do to change things? what would you say to these uppers? where does the change need to happen? All you... — read more 

Aren't the bonus and merit increases coming next week? Any word on layoffs? This week is over now. Will it be next week? What's the word?

i wish the a-holes making the decisions would get fired already.

Last night speech was dazzling, the toy industry was set on fire by the brilliant words and composure of our new US dictator. I truly believe in my heart of hearts that we will finally put foreign trade, countries, tariffs and taxes in their place... — read more 

Apparently, the election of Donald Trump is to blame for our lackluster Christmas last year. That is all.

Not sure if it's true, but heard that SL is being accused of collusion with the licensor that has mysteriously had the poorest record with new preschool properties and yet has the #1 preschool brand with another toy company. Apparently SL and her... — read more 

http://www.investopedia.com/news/barbie-ai-hologram-your-childs-new-best-friend-mat/?partner=YahooSA $300? i'd just as soon get my kid a laptop or tablet then some glitchy half assed produced faux AI

Welcome to the real world s---ers.

More terrible results, stock plummeting, but so far no big rumors of layoffs. Could it be we have reached a point where there is no more meat that can be sliced off the bone?

EVERYONE IN CANADA GOT A BONUS Announced feb 16

I find this story laughable. How can 1) you have a group of people who PROMISED they'd make up the gap that Disney Princesses caused, 2) led by a flash-in-the-pan marketer who announces that "Barbie is clearly on the right track", 3) and still ha ANY... — read more 

Hair weave where did you go?

I was let go back in the great purge of 2015. Powers that be (who kept changing above me) deemed me as the employee to let go. Best decision they made was allowing me leave with a severance package (given I was looking anyways) and essentially give... — read more