Feb. 02--NUREMBERG, Germany -- Ken, long-time Discount Cartier of immortal Barbie doll, celebrated his 50th birthday Wednesday at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, the world's biggest expo of dolls, puzzles and toy cars.Mattel, the US-based maker of Barbie and Discount Chopard world's biggest toy company by revenue, hired half a dozen male models to pose as flesh- and-blood counterparts to the boy doll, kitted out in swimsuits and tuxedoes.
Barbie, created in 1959, celebrated her own 50th two years ago at the fair, which presents the new toys to wholesale and retail buyers from round Discount ChronoSwiss globe at the fair which opens Thursday.Hasbro, another big US toymaker, had to scramble as the fair began to cope with a theft that had overtones of sabotage.Police were investigating the disappearance of part of the prototype of Hasbro's newest game, Simon Flash. The memory game comprises four small electronic blocks.
Franco Campana, an Italian-born German television personality who goes by the stage name Pronto Salvatore, had just been demonstrating to the media Discount Concord to play the game when two blocks vanished.The game is designed for children aged 8 and over and is to go on sale in August. Hasbro will initially show it incomplete at the Toy Fair. "It's very annoying. We'll have to get another one flown in from the United States," said Joerg Mutz, a spokesman for Hasbro Germany.
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