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Potato Head Redesign

Improved design of Potato Head toys for Hasbro. Led brainstorms, play testing, and focus groups to identify areas of improvement for the flagship brand including better socket connections, "tater tush" door, and other ways to make parts easier to assemble. Also provided CAD, prototyping, and experimentation to achieve optimal function.
Twist A Ball Track Toy In Yellow And Blue
Twist-A-Ball Track

Transforming cat toy for #1 top selling pet toy brand Catstages by Outward Hound. Provided fully functional CAD and manufacturing expertise. Patent pending.
A Blue Color Toy With Feathers
Electronic Dart N’ Dash Cat Toy

Motorized cat toy for #1 top selling pet toy brand Catstages by Outward Hound. Snaps into the top of their popular Tower of Tracks toy. Provided fully functional CAD, programming, mechanical and electronics prototyping, R&D, and manufacturing expertise. Patent pending.
Flutter Dome Toy In Blue Color Image
Electronic Flutter Dome Cat Toy

Motorized cat toy for #1 top selling pet toy brand Catstages by Outward Hound. Snaps into the top of their popular Tower of Tracks toy. Provided fully functional CAD, programming, mechanical and electronics prototyping, R&D, and manufacturing expertise.
A package of spider-man toys and accessories.
Spider-Man Real Webs Ultimate Web Blaster

Web Blaster for Hasbro, uses an interesting blend of nontoxic ingredients to create a realistic web like material that looks very similar to what you see in the movies. Supported R&D efforts with prototyping and experimentation to achieve an ideal nozzle and mechanism for mixing and squirting the ingredients.
A collage of two pictures with text that reads : fill your dog 's favorite treats, push the paws to play. Food slowly releases to keep
Paw N’ Play

Dog food dispenser in the familiar form of the classic Hungry Hungry Hippos toy for Outward Hound and Nina Ottosson. Provided 3D functional CAD, R&D, and manufacturing expertise.
A group of people sitting on top of a bench.
Valor Compact Folding Scooter

Worlds smallest compact folding scooter for Spin Master. Supported R&D efforts with ideation and quick turnaround CAD to improve the locking mechanism and storage features, metal prototyping and abuse testing to meet ASTM F2264 scooter standards.

Services

Ideation
Toy industry leaders highly experienced with organizing and leading brainstorms, both virtual or in person, to inspire your teams and effectively bring new innovations to market.
Design
Concept sketches, illustrations, renderings, and models from our staff of veteran toy designers to make your vision a reality.
Engineering
Product development experts in mechanical and electronics engineering. Highly experienced with injection molding, metal fabrication, die casting, programming, chip specs, electronics assembly, and design for manufacturability.
Manufacturing
For higher complexity projects we will coordinate with your manufacturers to communicate mechanical design intent, cost reduction ideas, troubleshooting suggestions, and critical quality checkpoints.
CAD
Experienced SolidWorks and Keyshot experts ready to take your concept from napkin sketch to implementation, including fully functioning assemblies, advanced surfacing, design for manufacturability, and FEA simulation.
Electronics Lab
Full prototype development with schematic capture and PCB design. Subsequent design for manufacturing and custom PCB layout for through-hole and surface mount solutions. Firmware development for custom usecase implementations.
Prototyping
Complete workshop with milling machine, lathe, welding, woodworking, and 3D printing capability. Can rapidly deliver fully functional prototypes ranging from simple, quick proof of concept, to finalized turnkey tooling models to meet your schedule.
Consumer Insight
Staff pediatrician certified in pediatrics and obesity medicine available for on site focus groups. Highly experienced with research methodologies and
ergonomics.
Costing
Accurate cost estimates to ensure that your concept meets the desired suggested retail price.
Play Testing
Staff preschool directors available to lead play testing focus groups with very quick lead times.
Media Team
Complete media department to meet your filming and editing needs.
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