A weekly newsletter from the desk of Todd Coopee
JUNE 5, 2015
Here are a few highlights from the blog this week:
USS Enterprise from Dinky Toys
Originally released in 1976, Dinky Toys' incarnation of the Star Trek flagship space vehicle integrates a removable orange shuttlecraft and rapid-fire “phaser” defense system into a die-cast metal body.
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The Hollywood Squares TV Game

Released in 1974 by the Ideal Toy Company, The Hollywood Squares TV Game is modeled after the game show of the same name, which originally aired on NBC from 1966-1981.
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Toy Chest: Teletubbies Touch Screen Edition

8 things I wanted to share this week:
  1. The Teletubbies are returning – this time with touch screens on their stomachs.
  2. Spoiler alert! The mystery of the Hardy Boys and other secret ghostwriters of children’s fiction.
  3. This $15,000 PAC-MAN Watch is not just a limited edition: it’s an ultra-limited edition!
  4. Get in your time machine and check out this 1982 JC Penney catalog of toys and electronics.
  5. Read how the Tiltfactor lab at Dartmouth is tackling social engineering through play.
  6. Playmobil is backing the Toy Like Me campaign with an upcoming line of characters with disabilities.
  7. After the fracas over Hello Barbie, ToyTalk responds to critics with facts about the doll.
  8. How A.C. Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector set, literally saved Christmas for the toy industry in 1918.
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