Unprepared for the overnight success of “Star Wars,” Kenner Products, which owned the licensing rights for the film’s action figures, also was unprepared for the holiday season demand for the toys. As a result, children who were given the set for Christmas in 1977 opened a mail-in cert...
I'm always impressed when I see the special LEGO kits. You know the ones...the models of, say, the White House or the Eiffel Tower. Or maybe one of the many Star Wars or Harry Potter sets. They blow me away. When I was a kid, I would have loved to have simply created a reas...
Yet that’s exactly what happened on Sunday night, when – almost 35 years later – we were in the same room, about 30 feet apart, for the better part of 90 minutes at the very intimate Music Room Cape Cod in Yarmouth. I swear, she was looking directly at me on multiple occasions,...
Glo Worms bridged the gap between stuffed animal and night-light when Hasbro’s Playskool released the toy in 1982. A soft squeeze would light up the toy’s vinyl head, gaining so much popularity that Hasbro released Musical Glo Worm in 1983, which could play a lullaby or tell a bedtim...
Glo Worms bridged the gap between stuffed animal and night-light when Hasbro’s Playskool released the toy in 1982. A soft squeeze would light up the toy’s vinyl head, gaining so much popularity that Hasbro released Musical Glo Worm in 1983, which could play a lullaby or tell a bedtime...
Named after Lake Minnetonka, Tonka Trucks was founded by three Minnesotans who were going into business in garden equipment manufacturing. But when they bought out a competitor and inadvertently wound up with a toy steam shovel, they looked at making toys. Soon enough, the digger—along with a...
Glo Worms bridged the gap between stuffed animal and night-light when Hasbro’s Playskool released the toy in 1982. A soft squeeze would light up the toy’s vinyl head, gaining so much popularity that Hasbro released Musical Glo Worm in 1983, which could play a lullaby or tell a bedtime...
1889 was the year the very first ride, a 60-foot toboggan-like waterslide was built along the bank in what would become Arnolds Park Amusement Park in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Located in the heart of a resort area known as the Iowa Great Lakes, you can see that ride in the background ...
Such stores as: Central City Comics, The Old Mill Country Store, Windy City Toys & Collectibles, Jerrol's, and Toy Stable. Last Wednesday, my jaw dropped when I saw what was posted in their storefront window at 505 N Pearl Street. "Store closing!"I couldn't believe it. After 30-plus...
Glo Worms bridged the gap between stuffed animal and night-light when Hasbro’s Playskool released the toy in 1982. A soft squeeze would light up the toy’s vinyl head, gaining so much popularity that Hasbro released Musical Glo Worm in 1983, which could play a lullaby or tell a bedtime...