Tiger Electronics

Tiger Electronics is an American toy manufacturer that is known for its product lines Furby, and Giga Pets.

The company was founded in 1978 by Randy Rissman and Roger Shiffman. First, we presented simple technical devices such as turntables ago, but soon devoted himself to this, the development of LCD games and educational toys. One of the first great successes was the voice digitizer " Talkboy " followed by " Brain Warp ". In addition, Tiger acquired the rights to the " Lazer Tag" Worlds of Wonder.

1998 Tiger Electronics was purchased by the toy manufacturer Hasbro. Hasbro had developed until then hardly electronic toys, but showed up on the development of Furby interested. With Hasbro's Tiger Furby support could quickly develop and during the holiday season of 1998 put on the market with great success - Furby became the most popular toys in 1998 and 1999.

With the " Giga Pets" Tiger also brought a number of electronic virtual pets as a competitor to the Japanese Tamagotchis on the market.

Since then, Tiger Electronics is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic toys and received, among other licenses for the production of toys to Star Wars, Barney, Arthur, Winnie the Pooh, Franklin the Turtle, Neopets, Wheel of Fortune.

2000 Tiger acquired the license for the production of electronic goods with Yahoo! label, including digital cameras, webcams, and a "hits Downloader " to download music for Tigers "Hit Clips" player.

The ongoing development of the Furby technology in 2003 led to the development and publication of the " FurReal " series.