Blue, Hello Kitty!

A match made in marketing . . . Blue meets Hello Kitty[*1] :

TOKYO | America’s favorite puzzle-solving dog, Blue, is gettingtogether with Hello Kitty, Japan’s most famous cat, in a partnershipannounced Wednesday.

Toys, clothes and stationery decorated with the floppy-eared bluecanine and the bubble-headed mouthless white kitten will arrive instores here in spring 2007, under a licensing deal between Sanrio Co. of Japan and U.S. licensing business Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, the companies said.