• JAKKS Pacific has signed a worldwide licensing agreement through entertainment talent agency Creative Artists Agency to make toys and related products based on the award-winning and double-platinum American country music singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift. Expect to see fashion dolls, role-play items, accessories and craft kits modeled after the country crooner at US mass retail outlets this fall.
• Scientific Games‘ subsidiary Games Media has picked up a three-year license to produce amusement with prize and skill with prize gaming machines in the UK and Ireland based on Hasbro’s classic games portfolio, including Monopoly, Yahtzee, Connect 4, Trivial Pursuit and Battleship.