The four Build-a-Bear plush this time are Red Bow Hello Kitty, Evergreen Cinnamoroll, Candy Cane Kuromi, and Merry My Melody. While the Hello Kitty looks similar to her typical incarnation aside from the red satin bow, the others feature special redesigns.

Build-A-Bear Workshop’s IP partnerships have always been one of its biggest differentiators, but now the retailer is bringing its collaboration with Sanrio to the next level with a new workshop in Los Angeles. The companies will open a new retailtainment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS – St. Louis-based Build-A-Bear Workshop and Sanrio, best known for its Hello Kitty® brand, announced the national expansion of the Build-A-Bear x Hello Kitty and Friends ...

The base Hello Kitty stuffed animal stands at 17 inches tall. She has multicolor fur with shades of blue, pink, and green mixed into it. Instead of a traditional bow, there is a fabric “50” over her left ear. Also, her facial features and whiskers are ...

I never went to Build-a-Bear as a kid. But on a recent visit to the custom stuffed-animal giant’s FAO Schwarz location, I immediately started to understand the decades of hype — and fell in love with the maximalist experience.

Build-A-Bear Workshop is teaming up with Hello Kitty to open its first-ever collaborative workshop in honor of the character’s 50 th anniversary. The new workshop will open on Nov. 15 at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles. The shop will include ...

Build-A-Bear and Sanrio, the brand behind Hello Kitty, will expand their co-branded stores to two of the country’s biggest malls in early 2026: the American Dream mall in Rutherford, N.J. and Bloomington, Minn.’s Mall of America. The brands had opened ...