Hasbro said Tuesday it would raise costs of toys and games to counter higher crude material expenses as the company sees flooding demand for its Nerf blasters and table games from families investing more energy at home.

Shares of the Monopoly producer, which late on Monday reported the offer of Entertainment One Music to Blackstone Group for $385 million, rose 1 percent in late morning exchanging.

The toymaker, as most US producers, has needed to battle with rising pitch, bundling and metal costs, just as taking off transportation costs because of popularity and supply interruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adversary Mattel a week ago had hailed assumptions for a “significant impact” to edges from higher sap costs and sea freight charges.

“Freight and information cost increments have gotten more articulated in the course of recent months, and we have designs set up to help alleviate those expenses, including cost increments for the second 50% of the year,” Hasbro chief financial officer Deborah Thomas said.

Demand for toys has stayed hearty over one year into the pandemic, with the company announcing a 14 percent ascend in first-quarter deals in quite a while buyer items unit.

Barring certain things, Hasbro acquired $1 per share, over examiners’ normal gauge of 65 pennies, as indicated by a Refinitiv IBES gauge.

A drop in promoting around movies and TV shows because of the pandemic-constrained production deferrals and theater terminations likewise supported in the benefit beat.

In any case, net revenue rose only 1% to $1.11 billion in the quarter, missing investigators’ evaluations of $1.17 billion, as the deferrals and terminations hurt the company’s entertainment production revenue.

Hasbro, as Mattel, said it saw “substantial” opportunity in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for a portion of its collectible brands, hoping to take advantage of the dangerous development in prevalence of the digital asset.