Mattel originally sold picture frames before making their mark in the toy industry.
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The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
– Richelle E. Goodrich
Silly Putty was invented by accident, the result of a failed experiment undertaken during World War II to develop a synthetic alternative to rubber.
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
– Jean Piaget
The game Operation was invented in 1962 by John Spinello, while he was an industrial design student at the University of Illinois.
Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
Walt Disney’s first animation studio was called Laugh-O-Gram.
That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
– Walt Disney
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.
– Johan Huizinga
UNO, pinball, and the Magic 8-Ball were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2018.
The market for child development toys is expected to reach about $40 billion worldwide by 2019; STEM/STEAM toys are projected to comprise 76% of that market.
The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
– Adam Savage
The classic children’s board game ‘Which Witch?’ from Milton Bradley was created by Joseph Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates.
A man who limits his interests limits his life.
– Vincent Price
The board game ‘Careers’ was initially developed and self-published by sociologist Dr. James Cooke Brown as a way to demonstrate that being successful in life can take many forms.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
– Tom Stoppard
Castle Halloween Museum – Altoona, Pennsylvania
Castle Halloween Museum offers the public a chance to view the private Halloween collection of author and Halloween Queen™, Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell. Apkarian-Russell’s 35,000-piece collection has been amassed over decades of careful curation. Visitors to the Museum are treated to a display of Halloween-related folk art, sculptures, books, toys, dolls, games, and novelty items from… Read more »