Loom band products account for nearly every one of Amazon's top 50 best-selling toys. Their cheap cost has fuelled their popularity - kits cost around £15 and packets of bands can be bought for ...

Parents scrambled to find out whether their children's loom band kits indeed contained potential carcinogens and, if so, how grave a danger was presented by the toys. Currently, British retailer ...

With loom bands, little girls in particular like the ... We’ve seen toy companies bringing out extension kits with charms. “It’s a good year rounder because they are things you can do ...

In the best entrepreneurial spirit Ng’s now thriving company has also sued several manufacturers and distributors of what he contends are copycat loom band kits that infringe on his patent.

Two years after going into business, Rainbow Loom inventor Cheong Choon Ng was nearing the millionth sale of his plastic-pronged device for weaving colorful rubber band bracelets. The $16.99 kits ...

Fast forward 12 months, and she would be lucky to get 20p for it - loom band kits on the auction site are selling for as little as 1p. Roland Earl, director general of the British Toy and Hobby ...

The bands took off after Michigan-based Cheong Choon Ng and his family created Rainbow Loom, a line of kits that allow users to create colorful items, from jewelry to accessories and beyond.

The Rainbow Loom kits went on sale for £10 in summer 2011 ... and there's barely a playground in the country that isn't lit up with the bands' flashes of multi coloured plastic.

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