It was on a bus driving through the northern desert of Uzbekistan when an American woman I’d just met turned to me and said, ‘Oh, you do environmental travel stories - have you been to Potato Head?’ I ...

Mr. Potato Head is no stranger to controversy. The beloved kids toy turned Toy Story character has a rich history that dates back to World War II. New York artist George Lerner was babysitting when he ...

Decades before his star role in the 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story, Mr. Potato Head was a business trailblazer. As the first toy to be marketed on television, Mr. Potato Head broke new ground with ads ...

"Hasbro is making sure all feel welcome in the Potato Head world by officially dropping the Mr. from the Mr. Potato Head brand name and logo," the toy company says Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News ...

Hasbro announced that the Mr. Potato Head toy would be getting a rebrand and linked to an article stating that the "Mr." was being dropped from "Mr. Potato Head" so that the toy could "break away from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister. Hasbro, the company that’s made the potato-shaped plastic toy for nearly 70 years, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The ...

The new Potato Head line drops the "Mister" to better reflect the world kids live in, though Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head themselves aren't going anywhere. T oymaking giant Hasbro engendered (ahem) ...

UPDATE: After announcing Potato Head’s new gender-neutral moniker earlier on Thursday, Hasbro issued a pun-filled statement on Twitter, clarifying that it’s renaming the toy line and not the ...

The discourse boiled over Thursday with the announcement that Mr. Potato Head products would be rebranded as the gender neutral “Potato Head.” Knowing that potato plants are hermaphroditic anyway, I ...

NEW YORK — Hasbro created confusion on Thursday when it removed the gender from its Mr. Potato Head brand, but not from the actual toy. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...