OT: National Toy Hall of Fame
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Officials at The Strong's National Museum of Play on Monday announced its 12 National Toy Hall of Fame finalists for 2014. The dozen contenders include American Girl dolls, bubbles, Fisher-Price Little People, Hess toy trucks, little green Army men, My Little Pony, the Operation Skill Game, the paper airplane, pots and pans, the Rubik's Cube, Slip'N Slide, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys.
All the classics are already in, so I vote for "little green army men" and "bubbles"
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Little Green Army Men gets my vote too. (GI JOE is already in).
Hot Wheels are in. But not Matchbox Cars. I played with Matchbox cars long before Hot Wheels came out.
"Ball" didn't make it in til 2009. But the Frisbee made it in in 1998
Gimme a break. Balls are more important than Frisbees.
My friends & I had a lot of fun with those as a kid! Still remember the winter we spray painted them white to play "Russo-Finnish War"
I must admit that I still have all the Meccano sets from my 1950s childhood. In fact it is the only bit of memorabilia that I have from my childhood.
My elderly, gnarled sausage fingers sure couldn't deal with all those tiny nuts and bolts these days.
BTW, my spell check when I enter "lopaw" selects "loose". :-)
Good one. We had a brand called Jarts, and they were a perennial favorite at summer family gatherings. Good times.
I fear that spell check knows me all too well ;)