A weekly newsletter from the desk of Todd Coopee
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Here are a few highlights from the blog this week:
Mouse Trap Game from Ideal
Mouse Trap represents one of the first, mass-produced, three-dimensional board games and draws inspiration from Rube Goldberg, a 20th-century cartoonist who became well known for his drawings of complex contraptions that performed very rudimentary tasks. READ MORE
Book: Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings
Over the course of 144 pages, author Brian Heiler has paid tribute to an oft-forgotten niche of off-brand, easily breakable, and ultimately disposable plastic toys that were typically available in supermarket checkout lines, variety stores, and pharmacy shelves. READ MORE

Toy Chest: Batman '66 Camp-fest Edition

The new @BatLabels Twitter account has won the Internet and 7 other things I wanted to share this week.
  1. From ‘Gossip Phone’ to ‘Bat Ladder,’ the @BatLabels Twitter account has gloriously displayed every explanatory label from the 1966-1968 Batman TV series.
  2. Take handheld gaming to Ant-Man levels via Tiny Circuits' The Tiny Arcade.
  3. Set your phasers on "stylish" with your very own Tricorder Pillow.
  4. My obsession of the week: the Slap Kirk Star Trek web game.
  5. In 1979, Disney wanted the movie Black Hole to be its Star Wars franchise.
  6. Attack of the poorly made clones - a look at some Star Wars knock-offs.
  7. Here are ten dangerous toys from decades past (and the commercials that sold them.)
  8. Check out Q&A with Lee Majors, The Bionic Man, from the MCM Birmingham Comiccon.
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