A weekly newsletter from the desk of Todd Coopee
JUNE 12, 2015
Here are a few highlights from the blog this week:
Verbot from TOMY

Driven by the popularity of sci-fi movies like Star Wars, the Verbot was part of a family of “home entertainment robots” released by TOMY in the mid 1980s.
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Ornithopter Mark I

Released in 1969, the toy with the tongue-twister name combined fun with scientific principles and drew its design inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century drawings of imaginary flying machines.
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Toy Chest: Godzilla Citizenship Edition

8 things I wanted to share this week:
  1. Now that he’s an official citizen of Japan, here’s some of Godzilla’s backstory.
  2. There is a connection between Edgar Allan Poe and the popular board game Scrabble.
  3. You can now play magnetic Tetris on your fridge while you try to decide what to eat.
  4. In honour of the release Jurassic World, have a bowl of Jurassic Park Crunch, the cereal with prehistoric marshmallow shapes.
  5. The World Video Game Hall of Fame named its first six inductees, including Pac-Man and Pong.
  6. It looks like Barbie is finally getting some sensible shoes.
  7. The original Star Wars saga is getting “re-imagined” in three new novels.
  8. Nostalgia alert! Someone posted a full scan of a LEGO catalog from 1985, and you need to read it.
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