Elliot Handler Elliot Handler Elliot Handler (April 9, 1916 – July 21, 2011) was an American inventor, businessman, and co-founder of Mattel. With his wife, he developed some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers, and Hot Wheels. Handler was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, on April 9, 1916, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He studied industrial design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1929, he met his future wife Ruth Mosko at a B'nai B'rith dance for teenagers. They later married and had two children: a
Oxford (toy company) themed sets from Disney, Hello Kitty, Robocar Poli and Pororo. Oxford manufactures Kre-O bricks on behalf of Hasbro. Oxford sets are commonly copied by Chinese toy companies Sluban and Woma, sometimes with slight changes. The company produces small block sets in several themes including: Oxford (toy company) Oxford Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean toy company, based in Busan, that makes interlocking brick toys. The company was first founded in 1961 as Dongjin Ind. Corp. In 1971, toy sales company Daegoo Lucky toy corp was established. In 1972, toy sales company Busan Lucky toy corp was established. In 1984,