Was Peter Collier the founder of both ToyFare and Collier's?
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ToyFare ToyFare was a monthly magazine published by Wizard Entertainment that focused on collectible action figures, busts, statues, and maquettes. It previewed new and upcoming lines and figures each month, as well as providing a price guide for toy lines, both new and old. "ToyFare" was also known for its satirical humor, which could be found on almost every page.
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Collier's Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was initially launched as Collier's Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, and finally shortened in 1905 to simply Collier's. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated January 4, 1957, though a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012.
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Barbara Toy Barbara Alex Toy FRGS (11 August 1908 – 18 July 2001) was an Australian-British travel writer, theatrical director, playwright, and screenplay writer. She is most famous for the series of books she wrote about her pioneering and solitary travels around the world in a Land Rover, undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s. Toy was drawn to deserts, and so the majority of her journeys were in the arid lands of Northern Africa and the Middle East. Toy's first solo journey took place almost five years before the perhaps more celebrated six-man team Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a London to Singapore overland trip between September 1955 and March 1956 that was also undertaken in Land Rovers.
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George Collier Vice Admiral Sir George Collier (11 May 1738 – 6 April 1795) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. As commander of the 4th-Rate Ship HMS "Rainbow", he was one of the most successful British naval commanders during the opening stages of war with America. He achieved considerable success as one of the senior officers on the North American coast, conducting and organizing several highly effective raids and counter-strikes. He was superseded however, and returned to Britain to play a role in the closing events of the war in European waters, before moving ashore to start a political career. He enjoyed a brief return to service with the resumption of war with France, and achieved flag rank, but died shortly afterwards.
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Walkers (snack foods) Walkers is a British snack food manufacturer mainly operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England by Henry Walker, and acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, in 1989. It is best known for manufacturing potato crisps, and other, non-potato-based snack foods. They hold 56 per cent of the British crisps market.<ref name="bbc.co.uk/food"> </ref> The Walkers site in Leicester is the largest crisp production plant in the world, producing over 11 million bags of crisps per day and using about 800 tons of potatoes.
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Peter Adkison Peter D. Adkison is the founder and first CEO of Wizards of the Coast (1993–2001), as well as a hobby game professional.
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Graham Collier James Graham Collier OBE (21 February 1937 – 9 September 2011) was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer.
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Derek Collier Derek Collier (1927–2008), who is the maternal grandfather of Jacob Collier, was an English violinist and former leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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Globe-Trotter Globe-Trotter is an English manufacturer of luggage, founded in 1897.
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Toys for Bob Toys for Bob is an American video game developer founded in Novato, California in 1989. The name Toys for Bob was invented by Laurie Lessen-Reiche; it was chosen to stimulate curiosity and allude to Paul and Fred's appreciation of real toys.
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Toy Vault Toy Vault, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is a designer and manufacturer of plush toys, plush apparel, board games and other novelty items.
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Peter Done Peter Eric Done (born February 1947) is a British billionaire businessman, founder and group managing director of Peninsula Business Services, established in 1983. He also co-founded, with his brother Fred Done, the bookmaking chain Betfred, which has more than 1,350 betting shops in the UK.
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Watchfinder Watchfinder & Co. is an online retailer of second-hand watches based in Maidstone, United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest seller of second-hand watches. By 2015, watches sold through the site totalled £155 million, and annual turnover was £68 million in financial year 2015-16 Online traffic amounts to around 4.9m unique visitors per year, putting it among the highest rates for any horological website.
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Denys Fisher Denys Fisher (11 May 1918 – 17 September 2002) was an English engineer who invented the spirograph toy and created the company Denys Fisher Toys.
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Bassett-Lowke Bassett-Lowke was a toy company in Northampton, England, founded by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke in 1898 or 1899, that specialized in model railways, boats and ships, and construction sets. Bassett-Lowke started as a mail-order business, although it designed and manufactured some items.
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Chieftain Products Chieftain Products was a Canada-based toy & game company which released games such as Scrabble, Atmosfear, etc. Founded in 1972 by Edward J. Scott in Toronto, Ontario, this toy company was closed down in 1996 after the release of Atmosfear 4. It moved in 1980 to Downsview, Ontario.
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Toy train A toy train is a toy that represents a train. It is distinguished from a model train by an emphasis on low cost and durability, rather than scale modeling. A toy train can be as simple as a pull toy that does not even run on track, or it might be operated by clockwork or a battery. By the way, many of today's model trains might be signed as toy ones as well, providing they are not strictly scale ones in favor of a robustness appropriate for children or a reasonable manufacturing.
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Collier Row Collier Row is a place in east London in the London Borough of Havering. It is a suburban development north of Romford, located 14 mi north east of Charing Cross.
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Child World Child World was an American chain of toy stores that was founded in Avon, Massachusetts, in 1970 by Sid Shneider and Joseph Arnesano. Child World once boasted 182 stores and revenues of approximately $830 million annually. From 1975 until its closure Child World also operated the Children's Palace chain of stores after acquiring it from Kobacker Stores, and later incorporated most of the aesthetic design features from the latter chain into Child World stores.
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Norman Sas Norman Anders Sas (March 29, 1925 – June 28, 2012), was an American toy inventor, mechanical engineer and manufacturer who is best known for inventing electric football, a tabletop game popular from the late 1940s until the development of video football games in the 1980s.
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John Payne Collier John Payne Collier (London, 11 January 1789 – 17 September 1883), was an English Shakespearean critic and forger.
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Merrythought Merrythought is a toy manufacturing company established in 1930 in the United Kingdom. The company specialises in soft toys, especially teddy bears. It is the last remaining British teddy bear factory to still make its products in Britain and is located at Ironbridge in Shropshire.