Tanya Thompson

I.D.I.O.T. stands for International Designer and Inventor of Toys and the award is given as a tribute to those who have made outstanding contributions to the toy industry.

Angus and Tanya from Hasbro’s Inventor Relations and External Innovation Team will talk about the difference between ‘evolutionary’ and ‘revolutionary’ innovation – and why they are both so important.

If you could only take one toy, one game and one of your own inventions to a desert island, what would you take and why?

“Hosting this conference expands on our offerings and aligns with our mission of promoting and supporting areas of popular art that might otherwise not receive the attention they deserve,” said Eddie Ibrahim, Senior Director of Programming at Comic-Con International.

Interviews with David Winter, Richard C Levy and Tanya Thompson all feature in the top ten.

How do you pitch a game idea to Hasbro? Where does Funko Games start when turning iconic movies into great tabletop experiences? What can an indie like Gamely Games do to stand out in a crowded market? All this, and more, is covered in this Game On! panel session.

Tanya Thompson, Hasbro’s Director of Global Product Acquisition for Games, tells inventors how to give her a winning pitch…

The session will be pre-recorded later this month, but we are putting your questions to the panellists, so if you have a question you’d like them to answer, please email it to billy@mojo-nation.com.

Don’t Step In It, Peeing Pup, The Slow Motion Race; Hasbro is on a roll when it comes to launching great games from the inventor community. We caught up with the firm’s director of global product acquisition for games, Tanya Thompson, to find out what makes for a great Hasbro game…

Having wandered the aisles of Toy Fair, Gamely’s Hazel Reynolds shares her three stand-out thoughts from her time at the show.