Toy Stories

Toy Stories: Frisbee

“When a ball dreams, it dreams it’s a Frisbee” Everybody wants a piece of the Frisbee pie. There is debate and controversy surrounding its invention, there is debate and controversy …

Toy Stories: Lazer Tag

If you were a kid in 1986, you probably remember the hype. For months before Worlds of Wonder finally released Lazer Tag, the company built up suspense to unbelievable levels …

Toy Stories: Etch-a-Sketch

It’s a nice feeling to finish an Etch-A-Sketch picture you’re semi-proud of. “It actually looks like a tree this time!” you tell yourself. But then that brainy cousin of yours …

Toy Stories: Mattel Electronics Football

For the true football-crazed kid, there were only three things wrong with the world: 1) The NFL season only lasted five months of the year, 2) You couldn’t play football …

Toy Stories: Battle Beasts

“Fire burns Wood! Wood floats on Water! Water puts out Fire!” Battle Beasts finally gave us the answer to a question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: …

Toy Stories: Cap Guns

In a pinch, kids can turn just about anything into a gun—a stick, a banana, a finger—but it always helped if the thing actually made an exploding noise. That was …

Toy Stories: The Green Machine

Not to slight the Big Wheel, because really…how can you, but skid-outs on the Wheel were nothing like the ones you could pull off on the Green Machine. Slightly bigger and …

Toy Stories: ColecoVision

ColecoVision was the Cadillac of home video games back in 1982; a system so powerful, you’d make friends with the biggest jerk on the block just to be near it. …

Toy Stories: Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots

The 1960’s were heady times for technology. While superpowers raced to put a man on the moon, scientists and amateur theorists dreamed of how technology would make the world of …

Toy Stories: View-Master

If you took any pride at all in your toy chest—and we hope you did—it surely contained a View-Master. When the action figure war simulation wound down and you needed …