A weekly newsletter from the desk of Todd Coopee
NOVEMBER 06, 2015
Here are a few highlights from the blog this week:
Betty Crocker (you sweet talker!)

 

The venerable Easy-Bake Oven was launched to the masses this week on November 4, 1963. An important time in the toy oven’s fifty-plus year history began in 1967 when General Mills acquired Kenner Products.
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In 1970, “Rubber Duckie” by Sesame Street’s Ernie reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Toy Chest: Darth Vader Pancakes Edition

The Force meets pancakes and 7 other things I wanted to share this week.
  1. Make The Force part of a healthy breakfast with the Darth Vader Pancake Maker.
  2. Meet the guy who tried to collect all 687 official NES games in 30 Days.
  3. There's a movie project underway about Charlton Comics, a former rival to Marvel and DC.
  4. My obsession of the week: this X-Files activity book.
  5. Roll you polyhedral dice and check out Empire of Imagination, a new biography on Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, from author Michael Witwer.
  6. Puppet, Super Soaker, and Twister were named 2015 National Toy Hall of Fame inductees.
  7. Star Trek is coming back to TV in 2017 — sort of.
  8. Science explains why being a fan is good for you.
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