Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks harmless--a small lump of colored fur with a tiny protruding lightbulb. But Hug a Light, stacked ten deep in the Jordan Marsh toy department, makes every child (four or older) a deity...
Once, long ago, children rode rocking horses. Now, who knows why, the toy firms are marketing instead animals perched on top of a single huge spring. And the names--if an entire generation grows up riding Farley Frogs, the trouble may just be beginning...
Another traditional American pastime--driving too quickly--continues to serve as the bread and butter of department store toy counters...
...management at Zap Zap raceways may warn against collisions, but some toy manufacturers are hep enough to know that its the six-car fatals that keep them buying newspapers. Hot Wheels, which at the height of its popularity sold an Interstate-Highway's worth of orange track annually, offers the Criss Cross track, which should be an easy concept to figure...
...cars too badly damaged to continue can be hauled to a Hot Wheel's Service Center, a complete automotive repair facility. Toy cars seem to have successfully resisted every onslaught of feminism--the service center features "Ted's Dynamometer," Larry's Towing," "Mike's Transmission," "Al's Service and Tires," and "George's Radiator...