1. Lincoln Logs
John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented this classic building set. The original instructions included plans for a replica of Abraham Lincoln s cabin, obviously, but also directions for building Uncle Tom s cabin.
2. Tinkertoys
After a stonemason saw kids building things with pencils and spools of thread, he got the idea for Tinkertoys.
3. Hula Hoops
Hula Hoops have been around forever in various formats, but the official Wham-O toy was invented in 1958. The inventors promoted it by going around to playgrounds and parks, giving children samples and showing them how to use it. That marketing campaign probably wouldn t work today.
The classic Christmas games and toys that still rule Yule
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Wed, 23 Dec, 2020 - 13:30
Kya deLongchamps
Well, at least on the Christmas card it’s not about the money spent or the perceived prestige branding of a gift. This is a season of togetherness and fun. That festive recipe doesn’t have to be pricey, and some of the great names in games and toys still lifting smiles have lasted over a century.
Twister, which is still a highly popular method to send the parents flat on their trifled stained faces on Christmas Day, cleverly uses the players’ bodies as the moving pieces of the game. It has a delightful, awkward, retro romp to it, and was brought to the shelves in 1966 by Reyn Guyer Jnr and industrial designer Neil Raben in Minneapolis. The game was launched on the US Tonight Show with a tangle of the purring Eva Gabor
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Of the thousands of toys given to American girls and boys over time, what are the greatest? This writer, a lifelong toy collector and longtime toy columnist, decided to tackle that massive question. We’ll start at the year 1900, we’ll exclude board and card games (surely worthy of their own list), and we’ll exclude athletic equipment. Not every selection may be your particular cup of pretend tea, but each one was chosen according to The Tom Morello Scale of “impact, influence, and awesomeness.” Here are the Greatest Toys from 1900 to 1950.
Honorable Mentions: The Top and the Yo-Yo
LEGO won t make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces
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Brad Lendon, CNN
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(CNN) This is a story about a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate, arms manufacturers, a German peace group and renegades who make miniaturized weapons systems out of small shops.
Not that those tiny weapons could actually hurt anyone. Well, not unless you stepped on one.
The conglomerate is LEGO, with worldwide revenues of $6.2 billion in 2019 from its toys, retail stores, theme parks and even movie rights. Its toy sets which are intended to inspire the builders of tomorrow, according to the company s mission statement run the gamut, from skyscrapers to boats, police stations to castles. There s even a kit to make Rome s famous Colosseum. Nothing from the real world, it seems, is off limits. That is, except for anything modeled on today s military.
Star Wars: Force for Change, FIRST, and the LEGO® Group Launch a “LEGO Star Wars Holiday Contest”
December 9th, 2020
BURBANK, Calif., December 9, 2020 ― This holiday season, as part of the
Star Wars: Force For Change initiative, Disney, Lucasfilm, and the LEGO Group are teaming up with the global robotics community
FIRST to bring fans an exciting challenge.
Through
® LEGO
® League, students around the world are introduced to the basics of robotics and engineering, using LEGO bricks to build unique solutions that teach coding, creativity, and teamwork. Now,
Star Wars: Force for Change and FIRST are challenging you to reimagine LEGO bricks into