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Number of Projects Completed

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Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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This item represents the carrying amount on the entity's balance sheet of its investment in common stock of an equity method investee. This is not an indicator of the fair value of the investment, rather it is the initial cost adjusted for the entity's share of earnings and losses of the investee, adjusted for any distributions (dividends) and other than temporary impairment (OTTI) losses recognized.

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The amount by which the fair value of an investment is less than the amortized cost basis or carrying amount of that investment at the balance sheet date and the decline in fair value is deemed to be other than temporary, before considering whether or not such amount is recognized in earnings or other comprehensive income.

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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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Amount of Net Income (Loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest.

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The cash outflow associated with the investment in or advances to an entity in which the reporting entity shares control of the entity with another party or group.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Joint Ventures (Detail) shares in Millions	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Joint Ventures (Detail) shares in Millions	Sep. 30, 2012 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) project	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Apr. 27, 2017	Oct. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2012 USD ($)
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Write-off of investment in DreamPlay, LLC			$ 0	$ 0	$ 7,000,000
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests			$ 169,000	(57,000)	57,000
Pacific Animation Partners Joint Venture
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest in joint venture			50.00%
Number of episodes for which production completed \| project			65
Equity in net income/(loss) of joint venture			$ 0	22,000	16,000
Joint venture balance			$ 0	0
DreamPlay Toys
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest in joint venture	50.00%
Cash paid to acquire interest in joint venture	$ 8,000,000
DreamPlay, LLC
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest in joint venture								5.00%
Cash paid to acquire interest in joint venture	$ 7,000,000
Write-off of investment in DreamPlay, LLC		$ 7,000,000
China Joint Venture
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest in joint venture			51.00%
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests			$ 169,000	(57,000)	57,000
Hong Kong Meisheng Cultural Co
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of ownership interest in joint venture							50.00%
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests			$ 0	$ 0
Technology Rights \| DreamPlay Toys
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Write-off of investment in DreamPlay, LLC		$ 2,900,000
NantWorks \| DreamPlay Toys
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Joint venture balance								$ 7,000,000
Issue of warrants (in shares) \| shares	1.5
Hong Kong Meisheng Cultural Co
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests					$ 0
JAKKS Pacific \| Hong Kong Meisheng Cultural Co \| Minimum
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Ownership percentage			10.00%			10.00%