The Playmakers : Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys

By (author) Walsh, Timothy

A fun book that feels like it should accompany a museum exhibition, Walsh's history includes toy timelines (beginning with the Flexible Flyer in 1900); postcards, ads and articles (such as a 1980s "Newsweek" cover on "The Cabbage Patch Craze"); and close-up photos of game pieces (including a board from a 1949 version of Candy Land in which a boy has a peculiar line running up his leg, which Walsh supposes might "speak volumes to...young polio victims"). Centred on toys that sold at least 10 million copies, were invented outside of the major toy companies (so no Mattel Hot Wheels or Hasbro Easy-Bake Oven) and that had significance to the author - a game inventor and 15-year veteran of the toy industry - and his friends, Walsh's account gives the particulars of 75 toys that enchanted American kids from 1900 to the 1990s. Among the playthings, Walsh examined are Lincoln Logs, Monopoly, Barbie, Slip 'n Slide, Mouse Trap, GI Joe and Rubik's Cube. The book's nostalgic feel should appeal to fans of Americana.

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書名 The Playmakers : Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys
著作者等 Walsh, Timothy
書名別名 Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys
出版元 Keys Publishing
刊行年月 2004.03.01
ページ数 312p
大きさ H272 x W271
ISBN 9780964697348
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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