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The $500 million trading card purchase of Topps

January 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The trading card company Topps, responsible for sports trading cards, Garbage Pail Kids GPK Nation Challenge coins, Topps Digital, Allen & Ginter, Bowman and former owner of WizKids, has been bought for $500 million.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: money, topps, trading cards

Marketing take control at WizKids

March 26, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lax Chandra is leaving WizKids to join an internet start up. Chandra became President of WizKid Games, the HeroClix publisher, in 2006 in a move which saw him move from Director of Business Development at Topps. Topps owned WizKids at the time. WizKids is now a NECA company and Chandra will be replaced by Justin […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: HeroClix, topps, wizkids

RPG News: Topps buy Wizkids | Echoes #11

December 21, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These stories have been rounded up from all over the internet but many of them come from GamingReport which, as a partner site, remains GameWyrd’s number one choice for industry news. Direct quotes from GamingReport appear in blue text. Topics Topps buy WizKids Activision sues over StarTrek Warcraft Board Game D&D Board Game CyberPunk D20 […]

Filed Under: Echoes from the Wyrd Tagged With: activision, echoes from the wyrd, rpg, startrek, topps

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