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...decade after Apollo, other space motifs also abound. Battlestar Galactica cruisers must have caused problems at some point--each bears a red label announcing "Redesigned Toy-Missiles Cannot Be Launched." Kind of makes you wonder...
...another literary toy. A designer has created small dolls that "move when you push their helmets." Pushkins, they're called...
...argument could be made for the relative superiority of the Magical Musical Thing, though, when it's stacked up against the electronic games dominating what the marketers call the "high end" of the toy business...
...except for one called "Einstein," which sounds, from its weary beep, to be operating at about one-tenth normal charge.) One machine obviously designed to increase a child's self-confidence, boasts simply "I am programmed to beat you." Even Etch-A-Sketch, once a marvelously cranky mechanical drawing toy, has been automated...
Obviously toys today cater to a media-conscious following. And for those not in the know, shopping can be disheartening. An older gentleman speaking in heavily-accented English wandered through the Jordan Marsh toy department. Approaching a stranger he demanded excitedly "Where are the Legos? At FAO Schwartz, at Filenes, at everywhere they say no Legos, try the Jordan Marsh. Where are they?" The stranger pointed him in the direction of Suckerman