• US retail sales continue to fall (Wall Street Journal)
• Teens’ changing attitude towards Abercrombie and other retail musings (SeekingAlpha.com)
• WALL-E scores the Golden Tomato on RottenTomatoes.com (Associated Press)
• A look at Disney World’s American Idol Experience (L.A. Times)
• The struggling Yahoo! gets a new CEO (Forbes)
• How girls are driving Nintendo Wii and DS sales (Tulsa World)
• Where’s the money in digital platforms? (Variety)
• Brit shoppers show resilience in UK retail slump (Wall Street Journal)
• Kid-friendly franchises like Harry Potter could lead box office numbers in 2009 (Associated Press)
• The hardest part of the recession could be behind us (Forbes)
• Are fairy tales too scary for children? (Motherlode/New York Times)
• Man takes more than a quarter of a century to solve Rubik’s Cube (BoingBoing.net)
• Disney releasing a Guitar Hero-esque game for real guitars? (Wired)
• Using the Wii balance board to literally surf Google Earth (VentureBeat)
• GameStop reports profit gains despite poor holiday retail sales (Bloomberg)
• Meanwhile, better-than-expected Euro retail sales hide unemployment woes (Forbes)
• Nintendo’s Kind Code aims to maintain gameplay interest for casual and hardcore gamers (Kotaku.com)
• Who will buy Entertainment Rights? (The Daily Telegraph)
• Kids direct-to-video biz faring well (Variety)
• Mattel announces more creation-friendly kid products at CES (Gizmodo)
• They’ve grown accustomed to their deals? (Washington Post/AP)
• MGA can sell Bratz until December 31, then over to Mattel (Wall Street Journal)
• Price pressures for online display and search advertising (MediaPost)
• Home video sales take a dive in 2008 (Variety)
• The most frequently played games on the Wii’s Nintendo Channel (MTV Multiplayer)
• The Dark Knight garners best picture nom by the Producers Guild of America (Forbes/AP)
• Watch out for the upcoming Chinese fake brand shopping center (Daily Mirror)
• Mattel introduces mind control to its toys at CES (The Telegraph)
• And now, a clip from Kure Kure Takora, a 1970s Japanese kids show (BoingBoing.net)
• Following the decline of KB Toys, Hong Kong toymakers turn to Li & Fung for compensation (AFP)
• Hasbro’s growth plans in the face of the flailing economy (CNNMoney.com)
• This will be Wolverine’s year (Toronto Star)
• Attendance at this year’s CES already down…(Reuters)
• …meanwhile, Blu-ray’s future remains on shaky ground (New York Times)
• 11-year-old Sonic the Hedgehog fan fights Kansas City Hall to legalize pet hedgehog (KTKA)
• Testing costs for toxicity in toys could put manufacturers out of business (L.A. Times)
• Blast from the past: Vintage toys from the V&A Museum of Childhood in west London (BBC)
• Hong Kong Disneyland to expand by a third of its size? (Wall Street Journal)
• Watch out for that Storm Trooper kick-line in the upcoming Star Wars Musical (Yahoo! News)
• Did you miss A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa? Catch it online! (Muppet Newsflash)
• Adults are never too old for toys and the stats exist to prove it (Daily Gazette)
• Electronic Arts to slash 1,000 jobs and close nine facilities (L.A. Times)
• Toys still holding up, just days before Christmas (Forbes/AP)
• Toy recalls of 2007 still not forgotten (Washington Post)
• A look at the new GameStop stores (Kotaku.com)
• Blast from the past: a Lego commercial featuring Zack the Lego Manic (BoingBoing.net)
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