Portfolio
Junior Jumbo Marble Run
National Geographic Kids ball drop preschool toy for the Blue Marble toy company. Provided early childhood learning expertise for the instructional cards and advised on the sample tracks with the goal of making the instructions and toy developmentally appropriate and more accessible for independent play by toddlers.
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, a “tater tush” door, and other ways to make parts easier to assemble. Also provided CAD, prototyping, and experimentation to achieve optimal function.
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.
Services
Brainstorming:
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 3D sculpted models from our staff of veteran toy designers to make your vision a reality.
Mechanical Engineering:
Highly creative mechanical design engineers with a deep understanding of product design and manufacturing processes as well as decades of experience developing toys, games and consumer products. Highly experienced with injection molding, metal fabrication, die casting, programming, chip specs, electronics assembly, and design for manufacturability. Available to coordinate directly with your factories to provide manufacturing expertise in a timely fashion.
CAD:
Experienced SolidWorks, ZBrush and Keyshot experts ready to take your concept from napkin sketch to implementation, including fully functioning assemblies, sculpting, design for manufacturability and animations.
Electronics Engineering:
Highly experienced electronics engineers who can provide schematics, programming, electronic bills of material and troubleshooting expertise. 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.
Play Testing:
Early childhood learning experts who can provide focus groups and play testing. Highly experienced with research methodologies, ergonomics and developmental expertise.
Video and Sound Editing:
Professional video editor to develop commercials and videos for products. Composer and audio engineer available upon request.
Marketing:
Seasoned toy industry marketers to drive new products towards success.
Model Repair:
Toy industry experts who can repair showroom samples either on site or off.
Media Team
Complete media department to meet your filming and editing needs.
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