Pre-Internet, popular toys often spread through pop culture references. These are several of the toys every 1990s kid wanted ...

Skip-It was the toy that kids could away with using in gym class. After stepping your ankle into the Skip-It loop, you had to hop over the plastic jump rope-like contraption as it spun around and ...

Television commercials from the 1980s and 1990s weren’t just advertising breaks – they were miniature cultural phenomena that shaped our memories and influenced popular culture. These brief snippets ...

Ouija boards are often viewed as occult tools for contacting the dead, but their origins aren’t so sinister. A novelty company patented the spiritualist parlor trick in the late 19th century, and ...

Last month, I ran a tiny media experiment in my own home: I recorded all of the toy commercials that my 3-year-old daughter watched in a one-week period, looking for patterns in how she was being ...

Casting an ensemble for a tabletop toy commercial. Note: The toy is a competitive indoor athletic game for tabletop spaces. The creators are seeking to mimic the style and imagery seen in 1990s TV ...