Sega Fave Explained

Sega Fave Corporation
Native Name:株式会社セガ フェイブ
Native Name Lang:ja
Romanized Name:Kabushiki gaisha Sega Feibu
Predecessor:Yonezawa Toys
Type:Subsidiary
Location:Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Area Served:Worldwide
Num Employees:859[1]
Parent:Sega
Divisions:Sega Fave AM1
Subsid:Dartslive
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, previously known as Sega Toys Co., Ltd. until 2024,[2] is a Japanese toy and arcade company which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings.[3] The company was founded when Yonezawa Toys, Japan's largest post-war toy manufacturer, was absorbed into Sega in 1991 as Sega-Yonezawa.

Sega Toys have created toys for children's franchises such as , , Lilpri, Bakugan, Jewelpet, Rilu Rilu Fairilu, Dinosaur King, and Hero Bank. Products by Sega Toys released in the West include the Homestar and the iDog. Sega Toys also inherited the Sega Pico handheld system and produced software for the console.[4]

As part of a restructuring in 2024, Sega Toys took over Sega's amusement machine business (including development and sales of arcade games) and renamed to its current name, Sega Fave. This was the first time since Sega Interactive in 2015, that Sega's amusement machine businesses was represented by a separate company.

History

(known also as Yone or simply Y) was founded in the 1950s in Tokyo. It was one of Japan's largest and most prodigious post-war toy manufacturers and an early participant in the growing radio control market. It is a former subsidiary of Union Carbide as toy division.

The company focused on the production of thousands of different electrically operated and mechanical toys through the early 1970s. Some were branded not as Yonezawa but as STS. It is unclear as to the origin of the STS label, but it is presumed to be that of an importer.Yonezawa briefly dabbled in radio control in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the 1/10-scale Wave Hunter buggy, sold in North America as the Monogram Lightning.

Under Sega's leadership, Yonezawa Toys was briefly known as Sega-Yonezawa until the Yonezawa branding was dropped entirely in April 1998.[5] Once Sega Sammy Holdings was formed, Sega Toys was reorganized under Sega's entertainment contents business.

Since the early 2000s, Sega Toys markets itself distinctively from the Sega brand, with some occasional collaboration between the two. An example of their collaboration is Sega and Sega Toys producing the UFO Catcher prize games jointly, where Sega manufactures the arcade equipment, while Sega Toys produces the prizes.

In January 2024, Sega Sammy announced that it has resolved to transfer the Amusement Machine business of Sega to Sega Toys, while also changing the name of Sega Toys to Sega Fave Corporation which took effect by April of that year.[6]

The model car line started with Taiseiya Company, which had been making 1:80 diecast cars called Micro Pet. The name was changed to Cherryca Phenix in 1962. In 1965, Taiseiya was bought by Yonezawa. Yonezawa used the name Diapet to cover these and its own range of 1:24 to 1:18 cars.[7] In the 1990s, some 1:43 sets were issued as the Collection Club.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Outline . Sega Fave . 2024-04-01.
  2. Web site: Notice of Changes of Directors at Major Subsidiaries of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC. (SEGA CORPORATION and Sammy Corporation)|News Release|SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS . 2024-04-03 . Notice of Changes of Directors at Major Subsidiaries of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC. (SEGA CORPORATION and Sammy Corporation)|News Release|SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS . en.
  3. Web site: Notice . . 27 August 2010 . 2023-07-19 . 13 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181113030643/http://www.tms-e.co.jp/english/pdf/100827kogaisya.pdf . en.
  4. Web site: History of Sega Toys . Sega . Japan . August 2014 . 2024-04-01.
  5. Web site: Company Profile - History of SEGA TOYS. segatoys.co.jp.
  6. Web site: Notice regarding the Organizational Restructure in the Entertainment Contents Business (Absorption-type Demerger between consolidated subsidiaries and change of trade name of subsidiary)|News Release|SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS . 2024-01-09 . Notice regarding the Organizational Restructure in the Entertainment Contents Business (Absorption-type Demerger between consolidated subsidiaries and change of trade name of subsidiary)|News Release|SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS . en.
  7. Web site: Diapet . hobbyDB . 2024-04-01.
  8. Web site: Diapet . Daniel Beck's Model Car Collection . 2024-04-01.