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Big Super Bowl stakes and Little People
In addition to Hollywood awards season, it’s Super Bowl time, rife with its own tropes and sidetracks. For now, though, forget player scandals, owner disputes, athlete retirement and/or divorce announcements, celebrity grandstand appearances, half-time acts, big budget TV commercials, and other miscellaneous distractions, because . . . Mattel rocks the house 💯!
Never a benchwarmer, Mattel — the metaphorical lineman of toymakers — has upstaged Super Bowl LVII before kickoff. Extraordinarily, the plaything giant has accomplished this feat with a team of Little People, specifically those lovably iconic characters spawned from the vaults of Mattel brand partner Fisher-Price®. Welcome to the big time, Little People!
This new NFL/NFLPA officially licensed Little People Collector™ Super Bowl LVII Champions launch spectacle serves a wide audience. With these Little People, toy-loving, football flouters (such as yours truly) and pigskin stans have common ground. Fisher-Price® presents a relatively low stakes, at-home game of chance with collectible figure bounty that commemorates (eventual) Super Bowl victors. The exclusive boxed set of same features three triumphant NFL players and one…