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...Some SJP partners place fidget toys on desks so clients can use them to focus or keep calm, or have covered overlays, to place over text to aid reading, laid out in the office for dyslexic people to use...
...So far, so ghastly (or so I thought) but Snowed In, Anatomical’s four-person Christmas show, proved an absolute delight: funny, engaging and weighing in at a fidget-proof 60 minutes....
...Bankman-Fried gestures with his right hand; I notice there is a whizzing silver fidget spinner locked in his left fingers under the table....
...A person with ADHD expressed relief at the ability to use a “fidget toy” at home without anyone staring. Other research supports minorities’ preference for homeworking....
...Joel Anderson, Five Below’s chief executive, said while the fidget spinners craze that helped turbocharge sales last year has largely faded, demand for slime, squishy toys and mermaid themed items have remained...
...A bet on fidget spinners helped Five Below deliver a 28 per cent rise in sales during its most recent fiscal year....
...As YouTube and Amazon have upended the business of selling toys, allowing independent products such as fidget spinners to usurp traditional big-budget rollouts, Hasbro has looked to shield itself through...
...She is careful about fads, though she stocks fidget spinners and “squishies”, among this year’s popular items. She looks for “good” toys that are fun, interactive, creative and engaging....
...Josh Loerzel, vice-president at Zing, an Oregon toy manufacturer that makes fidget spinners, says “this has flipped the script . . . it’s about how quickly you can react”....
...The toy industry at large has had a slow year, as a series of toy lines were linked to Hollywood films that failed to meet box office goals while fads such as fidget spinners dominated sales....
...Zing expects to ship 4 or 5m fidget spinners this year. Observers say the buzz surrounding fidget spinners underscores how much the toy industry, and more broadly the world of retail, has changed....
...(WSJ) Toying with a deal Online fads like fidget spinners are taking their toll on carefully planned toy company rollouts....
...“When people are talking about fidget spinners [a mini-propeller toy] we’re like, ‘Who cares?’ Whereas at the start they were ‘Woo!’,” says the bouncy girl....
...(FT) Toy industry left spinning We have written before about the fidget spinner craze but here’s a read on how the fad is turning the toy industry on its head. “There’s no famous brand pushing this....
...Child-centred productions needn’t be bland or sugary: Peter and the Wolf, The Little Sweep, Matilda and Toy Story prove that quality family entertainment is possible but The Snowman would fail to grip at...
...As if mocking the deluded purposefulness of voyaging, conveyances can get shrunk to the scale of toys in the vision of the artist....
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