Gemmy Industries

Gemmy Industries is an American company founded in 1984 in Dallas, Texas. Gemmy is known for its novelty and décor items, as well as its seasonal products for Saint Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The company is headquartered in Coppell, Texas.

Gemmy's diverse product line has created recognizable brands of outdoor décor such as Airblown inflatables, LightShow light strings and pathway markers, and Projection Spotlights. Their animated products include Dancing Hamsters, Monkey Town USA, Frogz, Douglas Fir the Talking Tree, Pete the Repeat Parrot, Buck the Animated Trophy, Bud the Talking Bear Rug, and Big Mouth Billy Bass.^[1]

Gemmy produces products based on popular licenses such as Star Wars, Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Peanuts, SpongeBob SquarePants, M&M's, Hello Kitty, Frosty the Snowman, The Elf on the Shelf, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Family Guy, South Park, Sesame Street, Garfield, Minions and many more.

Their animated line also consists of life-sized Halloween animated figures, some of which (in the past) have represented movie villains such as Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, Wicked Witch of the West, Freddy Krueger, Ghost Face, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead, and Leatherface. Gemmy also made the pop-culture series, with animated figures of popular music and comedy stars like Hank Williams Jr., Dean Martin, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Rodney Dangerfield, and many more.

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