Tiger Electronics is an US-American toy manufacturer, that admits Furby and Giga Pets for its product rows is.

The company was created 1978 by Randy Rissman and Roger Shiffman. First one manufactured simple technical devices such as record players, dedicated themselves however soon thereafter to the development of LCD plays and learning toy. One of first large successes was followed the voice Digitizer "Talkboy", of the "Brain Warp". In addition tiger acquired the rights at the "Lazer day" from Worlds OF Wonder.

1998 were bought up tiger Electronics by the toy manufacturer Hasbro. Hasbro had developed, showed up up to then hardly electronic toy however interested in the development of "Furby". With Hasbros support could tiger Furby rapidly develop and to the holidays season 1998 on the market bring with large success - Furby became the most popular toy 1998 and 1999.

With the "Giga Pets" brought tigers furthermore a number of electronic virtual domestic animals as competition to the Japanese Tamagotchis on the market.

Since then tiger Electronics ranks the Turtle, Neopets, wheel of fortune among the most important manufacturers of electronic play goods and received among other things licenses for production from toy to star Wars, Barney, Arthur, Pu the bear, Franklin.

2000 acquired tiger the license for the production of electronics articles with Yahoo! - Label, among them digital cameras, Webcams and "hits a Downloader" to the music down load for tiger "hit tie-clips" - Player.

The continuous development of the Furby technology led 2003 to the development and publication of the "FurReal" - row.

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