Category Archives: toys

What the Duck!

By tone | Published: June 24, 2009
Is nothing sacred? Imagine famous people shaped in rubber duck forms. Sure Ernie from Sesame Street would be in heaven.  An Obama duck, Mr. T duck, and a slew of other ducks based on celebrities. Rubber Duck World is a company that makes rubber ducks in many shapes and forms. Even the Pope and Jesus [...]
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Super Soaker – 20th Anniversary Air Pressure Super Soaker

By tone | Published: June 23, 2009
Can you believe it, twenty years of soaking screaming kids using Super Soakers. This blissful blast of aquatic warfare has been a summer favorite for many kids. Created by Hasbro in 1989 and still going strong. In 1989, the world of water fights was changed forever by the introduction of the air-powered SUPER SOAKER 50 [...]
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Top Selling Car of the Year

By tone | Published: June 11, 2009
What is the biggest selling car of the year? The Little Tikes car of course. They sell annually 450 000 units a year. They have no fuel emissions and the best they consume no fossil fuels, are powered by your trusty Fred Flintstone feet. The Little Tikes factory in Hudson, Ohio, runs 24 hours a day, [...]
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Crayola Through the Years

By tone | Published: June 10, 2009
Crayola is the building block to creativity. For many years these childlike rainbow wax pencils of magic have graced many homes and perhaps is responsible for creating amazing contraptions we use in our daily routines when toddlers experimented with ideas. My daughter experimented with “Flowersaurus” a dinosaur like flower. These are memories you cherish. Thank [...]
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Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising With Character

By tone | Published: April 9, 2009
Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising With Character is a study of  North American culture icons in advertising.  For many years companies have created characters to sell their products. Where did the ideas come from and how many have disappeared in limbo since their inceptions. Many are still with us today, some changed and others are still [...]
Also posted in Art, Books, TV, promotion | Tagged ad boy, Advertising, cartoon, Character, marketing, Masud Husain, today, vintage, Warren Dotz | Comments closed

Wham-O Super-Book

By tone | Published: December 9, 2008
Toys used to be simple and fun. Today toys are too elaborate and complicated. These over priced toys don’t hold up a candle in the wind to Wham-O’s history of fun toys for all. The vintage packaging takes you back to a time when things were simpler and easy. [...]
Also posted in Books | Tagged Book, candle, childhood, Frisbee, Fun, history, hold, Hoop SuperBall, O Super-, O. Wham-, packaging, simple, Tim Walsh, time, today, veteran, vintage, wind, year | Comments closed

Wired on Manga

By tone | Published: October 22, 2007
Wired magazine is out already this week and they have the coolest issue ever about the invasion of Manga and how it conquered North America. You could buy the magazine or get it free online in a few days. Either way the latest issue is an amazing read. Read more>> [...]
Also posted in Animation, Art, Cartoons, Comics, Movies, Web, software | Tagged Manga, sandbox world, tony medeiros, wired | Leave a comment

Erector Spykee Spy Robot

By tone | Published: October 17, 2007
Erector Spykee Spy Robot This has to be the coolest toy for a kid, espionage at its best. What little eyes can pry on with this little robot. Mothers and fathers keep your rooms closed cause junior has a whole spy network ready and watch those little frolics of yours. The [...]
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Dark Knight

By tone | Published: September 27, 2007
If you can’t beat them join them, or in this case rip them. Knight Rider is coming back to NBC, with a twist. K.I.T.T. the talking car will now be a shape-shifting car. He will have other cars that are shape-shifters too who will be his nemesis. Sound familiar? Read more>>
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Barbie Recall

By tone | Published: September 27, 2007
Barbie Girls  Business is getting tougher all over. Mattel toys is no different from any other business model. With sagging sales for Barbie, they came up with barbiegirls.com and in just 3 months logged in 4 million registered users. Not to be outdone, Mattel got with the times [...]
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