The Toy Hall of Fame selects three new toys
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced the three new toys that will be part of the Toy Hall of Fame.
My Little Pony, Phase 10, and Transformers beat out nine other finalists, which were Apples to Apples, Balloons, Choose Your Own Adventure Gamebooks, Hess Toy Trucks, Pokémon Trading Cards, Remote Control Vehicles, Sequence, the Stick Horse and Trampolines.
My Little Pony was first introduced by Hasbro in 1983, and boasts over a thousand varieties.
Created by Ken Johnson, Phase 10 would become the second best-selling card game, only trailing Uno.
Transformers debuted in 1984 also from Hasbro, but were promoted with a syndicated cartoon show. There have been multiple movies and animated series since.
The Toy Hall of Fame Names the 2023 Finalists
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced the 2023 Finalists for their Toy Hall of Fame.
The 12 Nominees are:
Baseball Cards, Bingo, Bop It, Cabbage Patch Kids, Choose Your Own Adventure Gamebooks, Connect 4, Ken (Doll), Little Tykes Cozy Coupe, Nerf, Slime and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The inaugural class took place in 1998.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com will be paying attention as this is one of our favorite institutions.
The Toy Hall of Fame inducts three new toys.
We have been open about our love for the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, that is the home to some of the most fun Halls of Fame, including the Toy Hall of Fame, which inducted three new toys.
The Top, Masters of the Universe ad Lite-Brite are the three new toys inducted, after beating out Bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Nerf, The Pinata Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O and the Spirograph.
The Strong Museum also is the home of the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, the Woodbury School and the American Journal of Play.
The Toy Hall of Fame announces the 2022 Finalists
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced the 12 Finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, three of which will be inducted on November 10.
The Finalists are:
Bingo
Breyer Horses
Catan (Settlers of Catan)
Lite-Brite
Masters of the Universe
Nerf Toys
Phase 10
Pinata
Pound Puppies
Rack-O
Spirograph
Spinning Top
The Strong is located in Rochester, New York
The Toy Hall of Fame announces the 2021 Class
We have said this often:
We love the Toy Hall of Fame!
The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester New York has announced that the American Girl Doll, Risk and Sand are the newest inductees to the Toy Hall of Fame.
The other nine finalists were Battleship, Billiards, Cabbage Patch Kids, Fischer-Price Corn Popper, Mahjong, Masters of the Universe, the pinata, The Settlers of Catan, and the Toy Fire Engine.
The Class of 2021 brings Toy Hall of Fame membership to 77.
The Toy Hall of Fame announces the 2021 Finalists
We always get a kick out of anything that comes from the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York. Today, they announced the Finalists for the 2021 Class of the Toy Hall of Fame.
The nominees are:
-American Girl Dolls: Created in 1986 by educator and newscaster Pleasant Rowland, each doll comes with a narrative that reflects an era of American history.
- Battleship: Originally played with paper and pencil, Milton Bradley’s 1967 plastic adaptation popularized the two-person strategy game. It was among the first board games to be computerized in 1979.
- Billiards: Commonly known as pool in the United States, the game evolved from earlier European outdoor games and became popular in the 1800s.
- Cabbage Patch Kids: The dolls, each unique, were launched in 1979. Complete with adoption papers, they were the must-have holiday toy of 1983, paving the way for Tickle Me Elmo, Beanie Babies, and Furby that followed.
- Fisher-Price Corn Popper: Introduced in 1957, the push-toy got toddlers walking, mesmerized by bright flying balls and the popping sound.
- Mahjong: The gambling card game originated in China became popular in the United States in the 1920s.
- Masters of the Universe: He-Man, She-Ra and the line's other action figures became popular through Mattel’s use of comic books and television, including the cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, from 1983 to 1985.
- Piñata: The treat-filled paper mache object is commonly associated with Mexican culture but may date back to early 13th-century China.
- Risk: The strategy board game first published in the United States in 1959 challenges players to control armies and conquer the world.
- Sand: The substance is perhaps the most universal and oldest toy in the world, according to the National Toy Hall of Fame.
- The Settlers of Catan: The cooperative board game now called “Catan" was first published in Germany. Players representing settlers establish a settlement on an island by spending resources, which are earned through trade and rolls of the dice.
- Toy fire engine: Materials, design and technology have evolved but the appeal has remained.
The winners will be inducted on November 4, and will join 74 other toys.