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The Fastest Ship in the Galaxy? Remembering Milton Bradley’s Star Bird (1978)

One of the great toy lines of the immediate post-Star Wars era comes from Milton ...

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Battleship! Celebrating Nearly 50 Years of Milton Bradley’s Strategy Game

Difficult though it may be to believe, 2017 will make the 50th anniversary of the ...

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Powerful Living Rocks! Remembering Tonka’s Rock Lords

Thirty years ago, in 1986, toymakers Bandai and Tonka introduced a generation of kids to…the ...

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Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Stretch Armstrong is a strange but beloved toy from the mid-1970s. The character of Stretch ...

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From Outer Space to Your Toy Store: Rom the Space Knight (Parker Bros, 1979)

In 1979, ads from toy company Parker Brothers blared “The age of ROM has ...

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They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

In The Chicago Tribune on November 5, 1961, the late Marvin Glass (1914-1974) ...

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Remembering Remco’s Earthquake Tower and Rescue Playset (1976)

Now here is a disco-decade toy that Irwin Allen -- the cinematic master of ...

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Use Your Imagination to Create Nightmares: Hugo, Kenner’s Man of a Thousand Faces

Now here’s some good old-fashioned nightmare fodder from the mid-1970s. Hugo -- the face ...

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Enact the Story: Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser 1 (1979)

One of the greatest spaceship model kits of all-time -- or at least my ...

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Cardboard Politics: Remembering Amy Carter at the White House Play Set

Although Amsco virtually cornered the market for cardboard play sets in the 1970s with ...

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Brought to Earth by Ideal: Remembering the Mighty Zeroids (1968-1970)

In 1968, Ideal Toys released the Zeroids: a set of toy robots described as ...

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Powered Fun and Thrills: Remembering Schaper’s Telesonic Toys of the Mid-1970s

In the 1970s, Schaper Toys was a big name (and was so until 1986, ...

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