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Jonathan Cathey Built a Toy Company Like a Punk Band
He started The Loyal Subjects with $500, a living room and a drummer's appetite for improvisation. Seventeen years later, Jonathan Cathey is still turning pop culture into objects people can play with - while making room for a second act on canvas.
The Loyal Subjects Turned $500 Into a Toy-Aisle Time Machine - and Found a Way to Sell Nostalgia Twice
Jonathan Cathey bootstrapped a toy company with a $500 check, learned that shelf space is scarcer than ideas, and built a licensing machine around the emotional details collectors refuse to forget.
Hasbro
How a Rhode Island textile-scraps business became the house that Monopoly, Nerf and Magic: The Gathering built - and why its future increasingly runs on dice, decks and download codes.
FUN.com
FUN.com is a North Mankato, Minnesota-based online retailer of costumes, pop-culture merchandise, collectibles, toys, party supplies and seasonal decor. It is the parent brand of HalloweenCostumes.com, the largest online-only costume retailer in the world. Grown from a family costume-rental shop that opened in a Minnesota garage in 1992, the company now designs and manufactures thousands of its own exclusive, officially licensed costumes and animatronics in-house and ships them to customers across North America, Europe and Australia.