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Tazos started out with a set of 100 disks featuring the images of Looney Tunes characters and 124 Tiny Toons tazos in 1994. The disks were added to the products of Mexican snacks company Sabritas and were named after the expression taconazo (to kick with the heel) which was a reference to another popular school game in Mexico where children open bottles with their shoes trying to launch the ...
The Pog fad soared, and peaked in the mid-1990s. [13] [14] Pogs were being handed out for opening bank accounts and in McDonald's Happy Meals. [8] With the end of the Pogs fad, Canada Games went out of business in 1997. Seven other companies entered the milk cap field after a comic book and card industry convention in January 1993.
The pigs were estimated to be worth £40–50 each, and their owner, Arnoldo Dijulio, a council road sweeper, [1] stated that he still intended to send the pair to slaughter should they be recaptured. After making this statement, Dijulio was offered large sums of money by media outlets and animal lovers to save the pigs from the dinner table.
Technically, anything over 20 years old can be coined "vintage." But when you truly think of items worth this title, your brain doesn't go to Beanie Babies. Instead, it conjures up images of vinyl...
5. Happy Meal Toys. McDonald's has been selling Happy Meals since the late 1970s, and many of the tiny toys included with the food have indeed become collectibles worth several hundred dollars for ...
If you're a Gen Xer, it's time to rummage through your attic, because those childhood toys, games and pop culture relics might be worth more than you think. Nostalgia has taken over the collectible...
Peter Gantner, a purveyor of POGS, is responsible for bringing Crazy Bones to the United States after learning about their success in Barcelona, Spain. In 1997, Gantner cut a $50,000 deal with Spanish company Magic Box International, Inc for the product and distribution rights for Crazy Bones in the United States. [ 1 ]
Before the first baby boomers burst onto the scene in 1946, the U.S. toy and game industry occupied a tiny slice of the U.S. economy. Annual toy sales were about $84 million in 1940, according to...