Koose Je Ma slimy jabba Ta hutt action figure. That’s “bring me my slimy Jabba the Hutt action figure” for those of you who don’t speak Huttese. That’s also what kids and Star Wars collectors were yelling in the late 90s with Hasbro’s debut of the Jabba Glob. And it was every bit a weird, […]
Long before there was Instagram, kids used to get their “reels” in a much different fashion. It’s well beloved as the View-Master and it completely changed the way that children saw toys…literally. Think of it as the first virtual reality headset. The road from early Kodachrome to the National Toy Hall of Fame is a […]
What was potentially the most explosive toy of the 1950s? That would be the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. Released in 1950 by A.C. Gilbert Company, the Atomic Energy Lab was a toy lab set that allowed children to create and witness nuclear and chemical reactions via radioactive material. All within the confines of their […]
Who knew that collecting could be so…delicious? Kenner revolutionized the toy industry in 1963 with the debut of the Easy-Bake Oven, forever blurring the line between collecting and cuisine. Easy-Bake Ovens are miniature stoves that have become the staple of many childhoods over the last six decades. The original versions ran off the premier tech […]
In the history of both toys and anthropomorphic vegetables, one spud stands above them all. Mr. Potato Head and the rest of the Potato Head family are among the very best-selling toys of all-time with more than 100 million sold since they first sprouted in the early 1950s. With that many purchased, we want to […]
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