Posted September 21, 2009

From Baby Go Boom we developed Hop Along Katie, a doll that jumped and spun on a pogo stick and rode a stick horse while singing the Lone Ranger theme, again in my daughter's voice. As a follow up to Baby Go Boom, we used the same mechanism and tooling for a second doll with a new set of actions and play patterns. Our goal was to make it cheap, easy, and fast for the same company to bring a second feature doll to market. 

    

Not so fast, however. Our client did bring the doll to market, they just didn’t license it from us. Rather, they took our idea and our prototype to Toy Fair where it was very well received, manufactured and sold it without ever paying us a dime (an oversight perhaps, or just common thievery). Then they filed bankruptcy, taking our money and our dolls with them. Curses!

            

Such is the life of an everyday toy inventor. Into each life a little rain must fall. This was our first, but not our last painful experience with losses at the hand of a trusted client.

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