Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Toys of the Last 100 Years

I read an interesting article from Forbes today about toys. I know, right? Forbes doesn't exactly exude "toy." Anyway, it was about the top toys of the last 100 years. It was a pretty nice article with interesting tidbits in it, such as:

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible configurations for a Rubik's Cube.

Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mr. Potato Head was originally sold without a potato.

In the article is says that Madame Alexander Dolls were introduced in 1929. There is a little picture of some of the dolls. I just have to say that they have come a long way since then. Check out the picture of the classic dolls and then check them out over at Town Square Toys.

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