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.

only a matter of time before this one turns into another AI Barbie, barbie wifi dreamhouse, talking bear and friends. we should just go retro and start remaking the nintendo power gloves, or the drum pads.

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I swear half of the BS that comes out of their socially awkward mouths could be discussed with marketing AFTER the meeting. no need to waste other departments time.

I really like working at the NYC office. I like the people, I like the work, and I like FP. A lot!

With respect to peers, relative outperformance over the last year is in contrast to the more recent underperformance. Mattel, Inc. currently trades at a higher Price/Book ratio (4.24) than its peer median (2.92). The market expects MAT-US to grow... — read more 

Can't say we will miss you But what a mess she is leaving behind

Did anyone see Arrival? I thought it was dope! Wanted to see what everyone else thought.

Just keep working, do your job and do not worry about job cuts - I think we are safe here El Segundo.

With all the unrest of CEO changes and cross pollination fighting between campuses it is an absolute miracle that Dino-Gator is still in development. FP design engineering has teamed up with ES marketing to deliver a great toy that has been received... — read more 

Since the brilliant "I have a better idea" Bryan Stockton pushed out Friedman, Curran etc during his first month as CEO in January, 2011, F-P has had 3 leaders (Allmark, Walker, MacKenzie) in just 6 years. Scothon was to be the 4th, but was canned... — read more 

Hey HR - how do you hire someone to head the EA campus but let them go 3 days later?????? Are you that scared of being sued? you had to know he consulted for a competitor?!?! what a joke you people are! And you want us to complain to you? you can't... — read more 

Mattel Inc.’s board has started preparing for a CEO transition, hoping to avoid the difficulties the toy maker had the last time it changed leaders. The biggest U.S. toy company hired the search firm Spencer Stuart this summer to help identify the... — read more 

If I were Anki, I'd be prepping my IP lawsuit against Mattel, as the new Hot Wheels AI "borrows heavily" from Anki Drive. Actually blatantly copying would be more like it. With CD and TW in charge of that brand, this is further proof they have no new... — read more 

To everyone on here that can't seem to do anything but whine, complain, call people out and blame everything on everyone else: if you're so miserable, QUIT. I DARE YOU. Think this place is really so corrupt? Say it. Go to HR and complain. Stop hiding... — read more 

I don’t know if anyone has heard but one of Mattel’s trusted factories (that shall remain nameless that Hasbro also uses) that also makes medical equipment for cutting edge science experiments is building a Fall exclusive for Mattel. The owner of the... — read more