Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good if you have a lot of work to do and you don't want to miss a TV show, but basically it's a toy. A c.d. player, on the other hand--well, music is more of a necessity than movies," Henzer says...
Cudmore estimates that he has roughly 200 ideas for devices in his files, although none of them are currently in production. Twelve of his inventions have been patented, and two toy designs were produced by a major toy company...
...year-old says that sometimes his ideas are met with incredulity. For instance, people often are initially skeptical of his "Skyro" invention, which is a plastic, cylindrical-shaped toy that "flies horizontally, like a laser, for hundreds of feet, and doubles as a bracelet...
...that could sell miles and miles of Kodak film. Whistling cheerfully, he cruises downstairs past a wall smeared with bloody handprints. Tension and soundtrack build as we wonder just what our cheerful quick-change artist is up to. Then, smiling wistfully, he pauses to pick up a child's toy. The camera follows him down, and there, sprawled messily across the living room, lies his butchered family...
Television programs for children seem to divide neatly into two mutually exclusive categories: the shows kids watch and the shows they ought to watch. In the first group are the platoons of super-heroes, Smurfs and toy-store transplants that fill the dial on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons. In the second are those earnest after-school specials and occasional PBS offerings praised by critics and parents but seldom watched by more than a fraction of the youngsters who crowd in front of the set for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Square...