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Sindy was relaunched again in 2006, this time resembling a 12- to 14-year-old. [4] Jerry Reynolds, chief executive officer of Pedigree Toys explained, "If you take the Sindy of yester-year she was between 12 and 14 years while Barbie was twenty-something. She got too close to Barbie in the '80s and '90s and has now effectively returned to that ...
The Vac-u-form, was a toy invented by Eddy Goldfarb and released by Mattel in the 1960s around 1961 with the trademark filed on October 8, 1962. [1] Based on the industrial process of vacuum forming, a rectangular piece of plastic was clamped in a holder and heated over a metal plate. When the plastic was soft, the holder was swung to the other ...
Pages in category "1960s toys" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Army men; Astrobase; B.
One way to make a hit toy: Combine two things that little kids already love. Skylanders epitomized the larger fad of toys-to-life, video games that included figurines that could interact with the ...
The Show Beam used small film cartridges that were plugged into the side of the toy. Each cartridge contained 30 full-color 2D images. [13] In 1981, GAF sold View-Master to a group of investors headed by Arnold Thaler, and the company was reconstituted as the View-Master International Group. [14] In 1985, View-Master Video was introduced.
The Easy-Bake Oven is a working toy oven introduced in 1963 and manufactured by Kenner and later by Hasbro. [1] [2] The original toy used a pair of ordinary incandescent light bulbs as a heat source; current versions use a true heating element. Kenner sold 500,000 Easy-Bake Ovens in the first year of production. [3]
If you kept any of your old dolls, games or playsets, you may be in luck! These 11 popular childhood toys are worth serious money now -- at least, it's what people are willing to pay on eBay.
The Etch A Sketch toy was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes, [1] [5] [6] an electrician with Lincrusta Co, who named the toy L'Écran Magique (The Magic Screen). [2] In 1959, he took his drawing toy to the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany. The Ohio Art Company saw it but had no interest in the toy. When Ohio Art saw the ...