Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
This two-player action toy featuring dueling robot boxers proved to be a hit for the Marx Toy Company when it was released to the North American market in 1966.
Vintage Advertising
Remember the toys and games of years past through vintage advertising – for better and for worse!
Mouse Trap Game
An early television commercial for Ideal Toy Company’s Mouse Trap Game. Inspired by the work of cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg, the game was originally released in 1963. Hasbro is still selling it today.
Silly Putty
A vintage comic book ad for Silly Putty – “The Wonder Toy of the Twentieth Century.”
Lite-Brite – Making things with light!
♫ Lite-Brite, making things with light.
Outta sight, making things with Lite-Brite! ♫
Fisher Price – The more the merrier Christmas
Christmas is just around the corner and the more toys the merrier according to this 1967 advertisement from Fisher-Price.
Easy Bake, Easy Bake, Fast As You Can!
Easy-Bake birthday week continues with this #TBT post of a 1963 television commercial for the toy oven from Kenner Products.
Simon Says…
Milton Bradley launched Simon in 1978 at the infamous Studio 54 in New York City.
Aurora Plastics Corporation
Most famous for their plastic model kits of classic Hollywood monsters, New York-based Aurora Plastics Corporation also produced a series of licensed models based on other characters from movies, television shows and comic books in the 1950s and ’60s.
Everyone knows it’s Slinky!
What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?