Lego Group is a Danish company producing games with a range of products, the most popular being based on building blocks to assemble. It was the fifth worldwide top toy manufacturer in 2009. The company name was created by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932 from the Danish leg godt, meaning "play well". In Latin, Lego [...]

Matchbox is a brand of toys – and formerly of games – owned by Mattel. The Matchbox name appears in 1953 as a mark of the British company Lesney toys, founded by Leslie Smith (March 6, 1918 to May 26, 2005) and Rodney Smith. The two men were not from the same family, despite their [...]

The first Barbie doll was presented at the American International Toy Fair in New York March 9, 1959 by her creator Ruth Handler. The almost immediate success of this new kind of doll gave her husband and partner the opportunity to create the Mattel Creations. The Barbie doll with her opulent breasts, her thin waist [...]

Rugrats is an American animated television series consisting of a driver of 6 minutes and 172 double episodes of 11 minutes each, created by Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo and posted between August 8, 1991 and September 9, 2005 on the Nickelodeon network . In France, the series aired from October 17, 1992 on Canal [...]

Marsupilami is an imaginary animal created by André Franquin in 1952, appearing in the series Spirou et Fantasio. Featuring Herculean strength and an oversized but very useful tail, it fascinates and entertains the imagination. Franquin described it in 1952 by the pseudo-scientific name of Marsupilamus fantasii, the fiction wanting that the Fantasio was the first [...]

SpongeBob (VO: SpongeBob SquarePants) is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. The series focuses primarily on the exploits and adventures of a square yellow sponge and his friends based in the depths of the ocean in a town called "Bikini Bottom". The popularity of the show has created [...]

Boomerang is a television channel and the private French national theme for children and adolescents. Boomerang is the sister channel of Cartoon Network, which until its birth, was broadcasted each Monday night in The Evening Cartoon Network a program called Boomerang. In April 2003, the Turner Broadcasting System decided to create a paying channel called [...]

Cartoon Network (CN Short, The Cartoon Network Corporation, Inc.) is an American television network created on 1 October 1992 by Turner Broadcasting. The channel airs mostly animated series. Different programmes Cartoon Network originally broadcast its programs from Turner Broadcasting, 24/24, mainly youth oriented, but also shares during the night, an adult channel called Adult Swim. [...]

Disney Channel is the name of several television stations in the Disney group, distributed in many countries. These are channels for children but also for families. They all depend on Walt Disney Television and programming that "tries to be the guardian of family values." However the programmes are not necessarily from the company of Walt [...]

Nickelodeon, often abbreviated to Nick, is a cable television network for American children. First TV channel in the world specializing in children, Nickelodeon has started broadcasting in 1979 under the name of Pinwheel. It was renamed Nickelodeon in 1981. Nickelodeon is the top children's channels in the U.S. with 90 million households and sixteen Nickelodeon [...]