Mattel launch of a film division, Mattel Films, that will make movies based on the company’s toy brands. Robbie Brenner was appointed to head the divison, with the title "executive producer" and will report directly to the CEO. The revived division's first two projects are expect to be Barbie and Masters of the Universe films. Mattel Mattel, Inc. () is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California. The products and brands it produces include Fisher-Price, Barbie, Monster High, Ever After High, Polly Pocket, Hot Wheels and Matchbox, Masters of the Universe, American Girl,
ITS launch vehicle "evolved quite a bit" since the November 2016 articulation of the very large "ITS launch vehicle." A key driver of the new architecture is to make the new system useful for substantial Earth-orbit and cislunar launches so that the new system might pay for itself, in part, through commercial spaceflight activities in the near-Earth space zone. In September 2017, the new smaller design was revealed to be the diameter launch vehicle, referred to by its "code name" BFR, with similar core vehicle structure (carbon fiber), engines (Raptor), and Mars mission architecture; but explicitly aimed at superseding and replacing the entire