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 

With today's grant of 773,000 stock options and 95,000 restricted shares, Mattel will pay RD an extra bonus of $14 million (beyond his annual base salary, bonuses and stock grants) if the stock price simply gets back to the $38.50 level it was two... — read more 

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Think a big purchase would be a nice swerve to all the trouble Q4 has brought us.

He ousted the CEO for bad results after sitting, sitting, sitting on the board for many, many years. Why isn't the board ousting him? What has he done to turn things around? Hire consultants and recruiters. He installed the management team. He should... — read more 

Let's hope this is a step in a positive direction. Change is (hopefully) GOOD.

Are layoffs on the horizon? Getting so tired of all the lip service from upper management. Just SAYING things are going to be different or better or a certain way does not them so.

giving hasbro a run for its money! what a joke.