Interviews

Mark Langley reveals how prototypes, playtests and pitches helped him find the right publisher

Buffalo Games’s John Bell on the magic ingredient that gets people saying, “Let’s play again again!”

Deb Weber talks us through her previous career at Fisher-Price – and how she’s looking to work with inventors at her new consultancy.

Laura Rowe interviews her dad – Fuse Director Tim Rowe – about his route into toys… And asks whether he’s still wracked by guilt over taking her old toys apart for prototypes!

Elizabeth Moody – Chief Operating Officer at Seven Towns – reveals the physics principal that powered the illusion in John Adams’ balancing game, Tippy the Dragon.

Crowbar Creative’s Brian Saliba and Exalted Funeral’s Matt Kelley discuss getting the tone right on Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme.

WowWee’s Sydney Wiseman discusses the groundbreaking, tail-wagging tech toy Dog-E

Talking shop with The Op’s Senior Director of Inventor Relations, Tony Serebriany

Confident?’s Ceri Price discusses “The difficult second game”, Tug!

From Merit and Airfix to Palitoy, Toymaster and the BTHA… Roger Dyson on his fantastic life in toys