The GAMA Trade Show, the gathering of the RPG, CCG, miniature game, and board game industries, recently wrapped up in Las Vegas, with a record number of exhibitors and stable attendance vs. 2001.

The latest edition of the Lycos 50 Daily Report discusses the growing number of Lycos searches for Japanese toy and anime property Zoids .

Two #1 products repeated in February, a testament to the strength of some recent releases and the weaker competition scheduled for this normally weak month.

The recent announcement by Disney that the company was reorganizing and reorienting its retail stores indicates that a continuing decline in sales has the company ready to take drastic action.

We knew it was coming when we spotted a vintage Strawberry Shortcake t-shirt on the Gen-X coed at our neighborhood coffee store a few weeks back.

Toynami displayed a wide variety of Robotech merchandise at the latest New York Toy Fair.

The major toy companies are still leery of anything but a gilt-edged property, so some pretty big movies were snapped up by some of the more aggressive players among the small and medium-size companies in the industry.

January is a transition month in the pop culture products business, with the first week or two typically showing strong post-Christmas sales, followed by slowing traffic as the winter doldrums set in. But there was a lot of activity in pop culture stores this January, with especially strong releases in the comic category.

N2 Toys is waiting to see if buyers at the recently concluded New York Toy Fair will order N2's second series of toys based on the cancelled Tick TV series.

The good news is that ToyBiz action figures are getting better and better thanks to new high tech imaging equipment and an increasing willingness to hire top sculptors, but the bad news is that the first wave of Spider-Man Movie Action Figures showed up in Wal-Mart (and reportedly, in Toys R Us) a month before other channels.