ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE: BBW), an
interactive destination where guests can create personalized furry
friends, has curated a line-up of gift ideas to make it easy to
shop for everyone on your list. From the beloved Merry Mission™
collection to everyone's favorite big-screen characters,
Build-A-Bear Workshop is the perfect place to make your own gifts
this season.
The reindeer are back! Build-A-Bear Workshop continues the fun
Merry Mission story with Santa's reindeer, including the
reimagined star-powered deer, Golden Glisten, and two new
reindeer – Twinkle, the supersonic deer, and Tinsel,
the speedster deer. In addition, guests can make Santa's eight
traditional reindeer – from Dasher to Blitzen – to
personalize with accessories and sounds.
Favorite onscreen characters come to life with the
Build-A-Bear Workshop Make-Your-Own Trolls
Collection, based on the stars of DreamWorks
Animation's Trolls. The Make-Your-Own Trolls Collection
includes Poppy, Branch and Guy Diamond – complete with playful updos
and upbeat attitudes! Choose from outfits, hair accessories,
backpack clips and sound chips, in addition to a pre-stuffed
Cooper, for even more Troll fun.
The 2016 Build-A-Bear Workshop Holiday Lookbook is live and
includes an exciting array of perfectly personalized gifts. Here
are a few highlights:
- Another playful pet joins the Promise Pets™ Collection –
Black Labrador Retriever! Plan adventures, make memories and
experience the fun of pet ownership with the new furry friend,
optional accessories and an interactive Promise Pets app –
available for download on Apple and Google Play app stores – that
teaches users how to become pet care "pros."
- The crazy, cool and one-of-a kind Monster Mixters let
kids and kids at heart experience a whole new way to customize. The
newest fun and frosty friend, Chill Monster, is the
coolest Monster Mixter around, with a snowy blue-white body and
silver horns. Pick arms and grab legs – then add hands, feet,
wings, a monster sound chip, costumes and more – to customize this
furry friend from head to toe. New Mixters parts are also
available, including wintery turquoise legs and blue hands with
spiky claws!
- The new Build-A-Bear Workshop Stuffing Station brings
the Make-Your-Own fun of Build-A-Bear Workshop home for creativity
and cuddles anytime. The set comes with everything you need to
stuff your own mini-sized furry friends and customize your
creations with individual outfits, birth certificates and, of
course, a heart. Find the Build-A-Bear Workshop Stuffing Station at
buildabear.com and select retailers.
- "Santaaa!" Spread holiday cheer with the new Buddy the Elf
Bear, based on the popular and beloved holiday film Elf
from New Line Cinema. This new plush comes with the classic Elf hat
and the Elf movie logo on its paw pad. Guests can add Buddy's elf
suit, a pj sleeper and sounds with classic lines from the movie
(all sold separately) for even more holiday cheer!
- Ice or snow, she's ready to go! The newest member of the PAW
Patrol™ Collection is the mountain husky girl pup with a
pedigree for rescuing. The new Build-A-Bear Workshop
Everest™ plush has lavender fur and blue eyes that
complement her evergreen tree symbol Pup-Tag. Personalize Everest
with her coat and cap, Pup Pack and signature sounds (all sold
separately).
- The classic My Little Pony® character,
Minty®, makes her furry friend debut and joins her
other pony friends including Twilight Sparkle, Apple Jack,
Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash! She has soft, cool
mint-colored fur and a long pink mane and tail. The peppermint
candies as her cutie mark let everyone know how sweet she is.
Outfits, accessories and sounds are sold separately, and My Little
Pony video clips offer even more fun at buildabear.com.
- Carefree and loving Share Bear™ is happiest when she's with her
friends or baking. The newest Make-Your-Own plush in the Care
Bears™ Collection at Build-A-Bear Workshop, Share
Bear™'s belly badge has two heart-shaped lollipops. With
soft purple fur, she is the perfect cuddly friend to warm up any
winter day. Downloadable Share Bear activities and a "Meet Share
Bear" video are available at buildabear.com!
- The Life is Good community shares one simple, unifying
mission: to spread the power of optimism. Build-A-Bear Workshop is
helping to spread that power with the new Life is Good Bear,
a super-soft light brown bear featuring the Life is Good logo on
its paw. Guests can personalize their bear with a collection of
Life is Good T-shirts, hats and heart wrist accessories. A matching
T-shirt is also available in kids' sizes. Ten percent (10%) of the
net profits from the sale of Life is Good furry friend T-shirts, up
to $20,000, will be donated to Life
is Good Kids Foundation to support their work with Boys & Girls
Clubs of America and Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada.
- The Honey Girls™ take on New York City! Teegan, Viv and Risa will
catch their big break playing at the New
Year's Eve event in Times Square. With three new music
videos to be released throughout the holiday season for new songs
"Big Time" and "Hooray for the Honey Girls" and for the holiday hit
"Reindeer Bells"– as well as sparkling outfits and accessories to
come in late December – they're ready, stylin' and best of all …
together! Visit buildabear.com/HoneyGirls to check out the full
collection of Honey Girls, and look for their latest music videos
on YouTube for even more fun.
Join the Merry Mission
Give back while you shop!
Build-A-Bear Workshop and the Build-A-Bear Foundation have
partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America this
holiday season for the annual Merry Mission charitable
program, which kicked off Nov. 11-13.
Guests visited Build-A-Bear Workshop stores throughout the weekend
to make bears at no charge to donate to local Boys & Girls
Clubs.
The Merry Mission continues all season long! Join us to support
Boys & Girls Clubs of America in the following ways:
- Now – Nov. 23: Help
Build-A-Bear Workshop make the merriest "nice list" holiday paper
chain for Boys & Girls Clubs of America. For each paper link
created and signed with a guest's name in Build-A-Bear Workshop
stores, the Build-A-Bear Foundation will donate $1 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, up to
$50,000. When finished, the links
will be sent to local Boys & Girls Clubs for children to create
holiday garlands.
- Now – Dec. 31: Throughout
the holidays, shoppers can also make a donation to Boys & Girls
Clubs of America at checkout.
Funds from the U.S. holiday campaign will be split 50/50: 50
percent of funding will go to the national Boys & Girls Clubs
of America organization and 50 percent will go to local Boys &
Girls Clubs.
For even more news, go to buildabear.com and follow the brand on
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Instagram.
About Build-A-Bear
Founded in St. Louis in 1997, Build-A-Bear, a global
brand kids love and parents trust, seeks to add a little more heart
to life. Build-A-Bear Workshop has approximately 400 stores
worldwide where guests can create customizable furry friends,
including company-owned stores in the
United States, Canada,
Denmark, Ireland, Puerto
Rico, the United Kingdom
and China, and franchise stores in
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Mexico and the Middle East. The company was named to the
FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the eighth year in
a row in 2016. Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE: BBW) posted a
total revenue of $377.7 million in
fiscal 2015. For more information, visit buildabear.com.
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