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...lawn chairs. The house is a home--a sweet, messy testament to the compromises of parenthood; the curtains are lace, the couches paisley, the walls papered in cream with pink roses and wreaths of dried flowers, all soft edges and tones that fade behind the yelping primary colors of Playskool and Fisher-Price...
...Last week the toymaker decided to seek help from the big kid on the block. Hasbro (1990 sales: more than $1 billion), the largest U.S. toymaker, will acquire Tonka's stock and debt in a deal worth about $500 million. Hasbro, which makes G.I. Joe, Cabbage Patch dolls and Playskool toys, earned $61 million in the first three quarters of 1990, while Tonka lost $25 million in the same period...
Toys that catch fire are another worry. Americans for Democratic Action, a Washington watchdog group, tested 18 stuffed animals and found that 13 of them, including Mattel's Baby Mickey Snuggle Pal, Paddington's 30th Anniversary bear from Eden Toys and Playskool's Big Bird, are flammable, even though they meet existing federal and industry standards. Manufacturers say they have had few complaints and would have to use toxic chemicals to make the toys fully flame-retardant...
...Even Playskool, which once made toys for liberals, has gotten into the act. "Star Rider" has "all the controls and special effects necessary for trips to distant galaxies." When it turns out that all that seperates you and distant galaxies is three different kinds of sirens on a plastic dashboard, you feel almost cowardly not to plunk down...
...sets used in computers. A small seesaw devised by Child Guidance Toys Inc. of New York City teaches addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular peg-and-hole toys from standard IQ tests, now makes a 100-bead counting board similar to the teaching materials of Montessori schools...