CNN's Hasbro 2008 Toy Trends

i gotta get me some of them hulk hands...

Another good one derived from Marvel's House of Ideas !!! Hulk hands? Things fists? how about Johnny Storm's hands ? Prepacked with lighter fluid !! Ideal for barbecue parties and home heating during the cold winter months. Complete with adjustable settings (finger lite (poof !). . all the way up to FLAME Thrower mode, just for instant results!!) It'll surely be a blast.

They should sell Electro's gloves, with electro-static shock action! For maximum effect the victim should be wet! That should sell well.

Lol!! @loll@ @loll@ good one annihilator. Touch.

hulk hands sold well

thing not so much

I personally never saw the appeal of the Thing, which is why I'm not surprised that Hulk hands sold well and Thing hands didn't. If I was a kid watching the Fantastic Four, I'd much rather be the Human Torch, 'cause the Thing is portrayed as self-pitying and is an ugly character. The Hulk is all just mindless smashing so that's cool. And he's green.

Didn't really show much,not even a clear shot of the iron man figure. Why are they bringing back those damn hands?? #WTF# Don't they know they don't sell.My local zellers still have about 150 of those Thing feet that came out for the first FF movie. They can't even give them away! Here's to you hasbro @pow@

I can think of one market for them...

My mom gave me a pair of those she bought at a garage sale. I messed around with them and my dog but it just wasn't much fun. Then years later inspiration struck. The kids in my class are required to learn certain words every grading period, and playing around the world flash card was getting kind of boring. SO, I printed out the words and taped them individually to some wooden blocks. The kids would say the words they knew then build a tower with the blocks they correctly remembered. Then out came the Hulk gloves. You've never seen kids try so hard to remember their color words before! Because the more words you remember the bigger your tower and the bigger your kaboom.

Teachers everywhere take note.

They should sell Electro's gloves, with electro-static shock action! For maximum effect the victim should be wet! That should sell well.

hulk hands are cool!

who is the guy?

WHOA! that transformers blaster at about 1:08 (the yellow one) was bad ass!

what do you have to say about parents wanting to buy safe toys and being concerned about the safety of their children?

We're not Mattel. we know what to do.

Nothing new or exciting to show on the Marvel front, though. though I never did get any Hulk hands....

and Electro: they are bringing back the Hulk hands cause they are a mint waiting to happen. this is why Toy Biz thought that Thing feet would sell...

but, no... just Hulk Hands. Hulk Hands are what sell.

hulk hands sold well

thing not so much

Didn't really show much,not even a clear shot of the iron man figure. Why are they bringing back those damn hands?? #WTF# Don't they know they don't sell.My local zellers still have about 150 of those Thing feet that came out for the first FF movie. They can't even give them away! Here's to you hasbro @pow@