Jakks Pacific

**Jakks Pacific, Inc.** is an American company that designs and markets toys and consumer products, with a range of products that feature numerous children's toy licenses. The company is named after its founder, Jack Friedman, who had previously founded LJN and THQ and presided over the company until retiring as CEO and chairman after March 31, 2010, a month before his death on May 3, 2010.

Jakks produces action figures, electronics, dolls, dress-up, role play, Halloween costumes, kids' furniture, vehicles, plush, art activity kits, seasonal products, infant/preschool, construction toys, and pet toys sold under various proprietary brands including Jakks Pacific, Creative Designs International, Road Champions, Funnoodle, Go Fly a Kite, Jakks Pets, EyeClops, Plug It In & Play TV Games, Girl Gourmet, Kids Only!, Tollytots and Disguise. Jakks is a licensee of several hundred trademarks including Disney, *Star Wars* and Nintendo. They are the official toy manufacturers for both the current Super Mario line as well as an line based on The Super Mario Bros. Movie which includes figures, playsets, toy vehicules and plushies.

### History

Jakks Pacific, Inc. was founded in 1995. Jakks acquired several companies including Remco, Child Guidance, and Road Champions in 1997, Berk and Flying Colors in 1999, Pentech in 2000, Toymax, Go Fly A Kite and Funnoodle in 2002, Color Workshop and Trendmasters in 2003, Play Along Toys in 2004, Pet Pal Corp. in 2005, Creative Designs International in 2006, and Kids Only Toys, Tollytots, and Disguise in 2008.
In February 2005, Jakks Pacific was instructed to restate the financial statements for fiscal year 2003 to account for the acquisition of Toymax, Trendmasters and P&M Products.
In 2010, the company formed Pacific Animation Partners LLC, a joint venture between it and Dentsu Entertainment USA, Fremantle and Topps, to launch the Monsuno property in 2012.
In 2012, Jakks Pacific announced the successful negotiation of licences for The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man, promoting new toy ranges at the New York and other International Toy Fairs.
In 2014, the company launched Jakks Meisheng Trading, a joint venture with Meisheng Culture and Creative Corp., to bring its toys to China. In 2016, the two created Studio JP, a joint venture to produce animation.

### (Wave 1)

This first wave of the new toyline based on the movie will include the traditional 5" figures with accesories, a 7" feature figure, a new line of 1.25" mini figures which will include your standard five buck cheap figures with a question block that opens to reveal real movie backgrounds and two playsets based on the movie, there will also be a 2.5" line of toys that will include their own respective Pull Back Racer and a line of plushies which consist of either 14" and 15" plushes of Mario and Luigi or 5" plush hangers of Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad.

### (Wave 1)

* 5" Mario with Plunger
* 5" Luigi with Flashlight
* 5" Peach with Parasol
* 5" Toad with Frying Pan
* 7" Bowser Feature Figure
* Van Playset (includes a 1.25" Mario action figure)
* Mushroom Kingdom Castle (includes 1.25" Peach and Mario action figures)
* 1.25" Mario with question block
* 1.25" Luigi with question block
* 1.25" Peach with question block
* 1.25" Toad with question block
* 1.25" Koopa Paratroopa with question block
* 1.25" Kamek with question block
* 2.5" Mario with Pull Back Racer
* 2.5" Peach with Pull Back Racer
* 2.5" Koopa Troopa with Pull Back Racer
* 2.5" Toad with Pull Back Racer
* 14” posable Mario plush
* 15” posable Luigi plush
* 5” Mario plush hanger
* 5" Luigi plush hanger
* 5" Peach plush hanger
* 5" Toad plush hanger

### (Wave 1)

5" action figures ($19.99.)Teaser imagePromotional image5" Mario Figure5" Mario packaging5" Luigi Figure5" Luigi packaging5" Peach Figure5" Peach packaging5" Toad Figure5" Toad packaging7" Bowser ($29.99.)Promotional image7" Bowser Feature Figure7" Bowser "premium" packagingVan Playset + 1.25" Mario packagingMushroom Kingdom Castle ($29.99.)Promotional imagePromotional image 2Promotional image 3Mushroom Kingdom Castle + "1.25 Mario and PeachMushroom Kingdom Castle (inside)Mushroom Kingdom Castle packaging1.25" Mario mini figure1.25" Mario packaging1.25" Luigi mini figure1.25" Luigi packaging1.25" Peach mini figure1.25" Peach packaging1.25" Toad mini figure1.25" Toad packaging1.25" Koopa Paratroopa mini figure1.25" Koopa Paratroopa packaging1.25" Kamek mini figure1.25" Kamek packaging2.5” Figure with Pull Back Racer ($14.97)Promotional image2.5” Mario Figure with Pull Back Racer2.5” Peach Figure with Pull Back Racer2.5” Mario packaging2.5” Peach packaging2.5” Toad Figure with Pull Back Racer2.5" Toad packaging2.5” Koopa Troopa Figure with Pull Back Racer2.5" Koopa Troopa packagingMario and Luigi posable plush ($29.99.)Promotional imagePromotional image 214” posable Mario plush14" Mario packaging15” posable Luigi plush15" Luigi packaging5” hanger plush ($5.99.)5" Mario plush hanger5" Mario plush packaging5" Luigi plush hanger5" Luigi plush packaging5" Peach plush hanger5" Peach plush packaging5" Toad plush hanger5" Toad plush packaging

### Videos

The Super Mario Bros. Movie - 7" Bowser - Jakks Pacific - SunnyTailsCrew-27" Bowser
### Release

Originally according to Amazon Canada's first listing, the first wave was meant to release originally on October 1st, 2022 but due to the film's delay at the end of April 2022, their release had to be moved, despite this, on the same day the trailer released, a few hours later, some of the first wave were found at some store in some unknown country which led to low quality pictures of the respective toys getting leaked, The first wave of products oficially arrived to almost all stores and online retailers in North America, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa on February 26, 2023.

### Cinemex partnership (Mexico)

While not oficially announced yet, the mexican theater chain, Cinemex, has supposdley partnered up with Jakks Pacifc to offer a few of their Movie toys to be sold at probably all their theaters for a limited time around the film's release, the toys planned to be sold are all six 1.5" figures with their respective question block (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Kamek and Koopa Paratroopa) and all four 2.5" Pull Back Racers (Mario, Peach, Toad and Koopa Troopa), the respective price and the collaboration itself are still yet to be confirmed.