Sega Toys

Japanese toy company

Sega Toys Co., Ltd.

Native name

| 株式会社セガトイズ

Romanized name

| Kabushiki gaisha Sega Toizu
Formerly| Sega-Yonezawa (1991–1998)
Company type| Subsidiary
Industry|

* Toys
* Japanese animation

Predecessor| Yonezawa Toys
Founded| February 1991; 33 years ago (1991-02)
Headquarters| Asakusabashi, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

* Naoko Miyazaki (president, CEO and CCO)[1]
* Akito Sasaki (chairman)
* Junichi Kimura (Executive Vice President)

Products|

* Advanced Pico Beena
* Homestar
* iDog

Revenue| ¥100 million

Number of employees

| 89[2]
Parent| Sega
Subsidiaries| Sega Toys (HK) Co., Ltd.
Website| segatoys.co.jp

Sega Toys Co., Ltd.[a] is a Japanese toy company and animation studio, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings.[3] The company was founded when Yonezawa Toys, Japan's largest post-war toy manufacturer, was absorbed into Sega in 1991 as Sega-Yonezawa.

Sega Toys have created toys for children's franchises such as Oshare Majo: Love and Berry, Mushiking: King of the Beetles, Lilpri, Bakugan, Jewelpet, Rilu Rilu Fairilu, Dinosaur King, and Hero Bank. Products by Sega Toys released in the West include the Homestar and the iDog. Sega Toys also inherited the Sega Pico handheld system and produced software for the console.[4]

## History[edit]

Former logo until 1986.

Yonezawa Toys (米澤玩具, Yonezawa Gangu) (known also as Yone or simply Y) was founded in the 1950s in Tokyo. It was one of Japan's largest and most prodigious post-war toy manufacturers and an early participant in the growing radio control market. It is a former subsidiary of Union Carbide as toy division.

The company and focused on the production of thousands of different electrically operated and mechanical toys through the early 1970s. Some were branded not as Yonezawa but as STS. It is unclear as to the origin of the STS label, but it is presumed to be that of an importer. Yonezawa briefly dabbled in radio control in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the 1/10-scale Wave Hunter buggy, sold in North America as the Monogram Lightning.

Under Sega's leadership, Yonezawa Toys was briefly known as Sega-Yonezawa until the Yonezawa branding was dropped entirely in April 1998.[5] Once Sega Sammy Holdings was formed, Sega Toys was reorganized under Sega's entertainment contents business.

Since the early 2000s, Sega Toys markets itself distinctively from the Sega brand, with some occasional collaboration between the two. An example of their collaboration is Sega and Sega Toys producing the UFO Catcher prize games jointly, where Sega manufactures the arcade equipment, while Sega Toys produces the prizes.

In January 2024, Sega Sammy announced that it has resolved to transfer the Amusement Machine business of Sega to Sega Toys, while also changing the name of Sega Toys to Sega Fave Corporation which would take effect by April of that year.[6]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Japanese: 株式会社セガトイズ, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Sega Toizu

## References[edit]

1. ^ Co.,LTD., SEGATOYS. "President Message - Company Profile - SEGA TOYS". www.segatoys.co.jp.
2. ^ Co.,LTD., SEGATOYS. "Corporate Information(Access Map) - Company Profile - SEGA TOYS". www.segatoys.co.jp.
3. ^ "Notice" (PDF). Sega Sammy Holdings. 27 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
4. ^ https://www.segatoys.co.jp/company/english/pdf/2014history-en.pdf[bare URL PDF]
5. ^ "Company Profile - History of SEGA TOYS". segatoys.co.jp.
6. ^ "Notice regarding the Organizational Restructure in the Entertainment Contents Business (Absorption-type Demerger between consolidated subsidiaries and change of trade name of subsidiary)｜News Release｜SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS". Notice regarding the Organizational Restructure in the Entertainment Contents Business (Absorption-type Demerger between consolidated subsidiaries and change of trade name of subsidiary)｜News Release｜SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

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Video game development|

* Amplitude Studios
* Atlus
* Atlus USA
* Creative Assembly
* Creative Assembly Sofia
* Hardlight
* Relic Entertainment
* Rovio Entertainment
* Sega R&D
* Sonic Team, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Sega AM2, Sega AM1
* Sports Interactive
* Two Point Studios

Animation|

* ENGI
* TMS Entertainment
* Marza Animation Planet

Other industries|

* Sega Toys
* Sammy Corporation

Former subsidiaries|

* ASCII Corporation
* CA Sega Joypolis
* Demiurge Studios
* Index Corporation
* Sammy Studios
* Sega Ozisoft
* SIMS Co., Ltd.
* Sonic! Software Planning
* Visual Concepts

Key people|

* Hajime Satomi
* Hisao Oguchi
* Toshihiro Nagoshi

Defunct|

* Amusement Vision
* Career Soft
* Sega AM3
* Sega Racing Studio
* SegaSoft
* Sega Studios San Francisco
* Sega Sports R&D
* Smilebit
* Technosoft
* Three Rings Design

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