Dan Klitsner
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About
Entrepreneur and creator of the Bop It! toy which first went on sale in 1997. He founded the toy inventing and licensing firm KID Group LLC. He also invented toys such as Perplexus and Hyper Dash. In 2022, he honored the 25th-anniversary of Bop It! with a new iteration called Bop It! Button.
Before fame
He graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design.
Trivia
Before his toy inventions, he designed consumer bottles, including the Woodford Reserve and Hornitos Tequila bottles, the Corbett Canyon wine bottle, and the Clorox Toilet Cleaner bottle. He worked in freelance design and commercial product design.
Family life
He and his wife Alicia Alexander have four children.
Associated with
Ellen DeGeneres played variations of the Bop It! game on her talk show.
