Date of publication: January 28, 2007
Source: USA Today
Author: Michelle Archer
Making and selling toys isn't exactly fun and games.
In fact, The Real Toy Story paints the industry as a shiny apple that is practically rotten to the core.
And if that apple were a toy, a company would make it out of plastic in a Chinese sweatshop for 45 cents, tie it in with a movie or TV show, sell it for $9.99 at Wal-Mart and hope that the kid who wound up with it would nag his parents to buy the rest of the line....