National Toy Hall of Fame

[NY+Giants=NYG]

Yes, There is actually a Toy Hall of fame in Rochester, NY. How many toys did you play with from this Hall of fame while growing up?

http://strongmuseum.com/NTHoF/NTHoF.html

I don't think Bicycle should be in it. That's more like a mode of transportation.


Q: What are the criteria for selecting toys for the National Toy Hall of Fame?
A: Inducted toys are selected on the basis of the following criteria:
1. Icon-status: The toy is widely recognized, respected, and remembered.
2. Longevity: The toy is more than a passing fad and has enjoyed popularity over multiple generations.
3. Discovery: The toy fosters learning, creativity, or discovery through play.
4. Innovation: The toy profoundly changed play or toy design. A toy may be inducted on the basis of this criterion without necessarily having met all of the first three.

[CJSchneider]

Didn't make my list:

Barbie
Roller Skates
Ragedy Ann
Easy-Bake Oven
Hula Hoop

Missing in my opinion (be damned the criteria):
Nerf Football
Cowboy "Cap" pistol
Water gun
Yo-Yo
Stompers
Transformers
Lite-Brite (don't even hate)
Video game (Atari 2600 - Atari 5200 - Entelevision - NES)

[Go_Eagles77]

Tinker toys were the ****.

[Im_a_Romosexual]

Legos were always my favorite

[yo123]

A cardboard box? Seriously? A cardboard box is in the Toy Hall of Fame?

[Go_Eagles77]

Didn't make my list:

Barbie
Roller Skates
Ragedy Ann
Easy-Bake Oven
Hula Hoop

Missing in my opinion (be damned the criteria):
Nerf Football
Cowboy "Cap" pistol
Water gun
Yo-Yo
Stompers
Transformers
Lite-Brite (don't even hate)
Video game (Atari 2600 - Atari 5200 - Entelevision - NES)

Atari 2600 and yo yo both made it.

[regoob2]

gi joes ftw!

[CJSchneider]

gi joes ftw!


I was more of a "Star Wars" action figures person. My brother collected G.I. JOE. Darth Vader pwnd on Duke every time.

[Shane P. Hallam]

I think I played with all of those at one time or another except the Easy Bake Oven and the Erector Set.

Cardboard Box FTW

[eaglesalltheway]

Silly Putty!!!!!

Yes!!!!

I could play with that all day every day. To this day when I see it I play with it. When I was young I got about 8 silly putties together and it was awesome. It was bigger than my hands. Silly putty is one of the top toys ever,

Also, cardboard boxes are the ****. Especially when it is a big box. Give me a big cardboard box and a crapload of silly putty and you won't see me for months.

[oldLibid21]

Why is the Cardboard Box there...

[CJSchneider]

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8669/homelesscondohw4.jpg


Eagleasalltheway's version of CRIBS

[regoob2]

I was more of a "Star Wars" action figures person. My brother collected G.I. JOE. Darth Vader pwnd on Duke every time.
I had both I liked the G.I. Joes better because they were more flexible and we're easier to play with. both are good though.

[iowatreat54]

Didn't make my list:

Barbie
Roller Skates
Ragedy Ann
Easy-Bake Oven
Hula Hoop

Missing in my opinion (be damned the criteria):
Nerf Football
Cowboy "Cap" pistol
Water gun
Yo-Yo
Stompers
Transformers
Lite-Brite (don't even hate)
Video game (Atari 2600 - Atari 5200 - Entelevision - NES)

sorry but Barbie has to be on the list, it is the face of girl's toys for like 50 years

[CJSchneider]

sorry but Barbie has to be on the list, it is the face of girl's toys for like 50 years

Didn't make the lsy as in "I never played with them as a kid ."
As the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 6, I have made up for it though.

I had both I liked the G.I. Joes better because they were more flexible and we're easier to play with. both are good though.

Yes, I was quite jealous of the "Kung Fu" grip and rotating elbows.
What made up for it though was Boba Fett was a bad-*** and Darth Vader had a light-saber.

[TitleTown088]

GI Joe is the only toy that is of importance.

[iowatreat54]

Didn't make the lsy as in "I never played with them as a kid ."
As the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 6, I have made up for it though.

ah, my mistake, I didn't read it as your personal preference

for me, GI Joes and Transformers were tops

[Shane P. Hallam]

The Viewmaster was my boy as a kid. I had Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Spiderman, X-Men, and a bunch of other viewmaster slides.

[iowatreat54]

The Viewmaster was my boy as a kid. I had Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Spiderman, X-Men, and a bunch of other viewmaster slides.

ohhhh ghostbusters were the ****

I had a ghostbusters suit, pack, gun, trap, pretty much everything you could have

[CJSchneider]

Atari 2600 and yo yo both made it.

Where, I didn't see them?

[Shane P. Hallam]

Atari is in the upper tight hand corner, yo yo toward the bottom IIRC.

[CJSchneider]

Atari is in the upper tight hand corner, yo yo toward the bottom IIRC.

I stand corrected.

[NY+Giants=NYG]

I made some of the best forts out of cardboard boxes. What's with that game candy land? Is that every kids first board game? I went to my neices house, and she had that game too. Candy Land Dora the Explorer Edition. The view finder toy was the best. I had sooo many of those different slides from cartoons to random animal ones to famous places in the world.

[wingboy2999]

How could you possibly talk trash on a cardboard box? You weren't a real kid if you didn't turn a cardboard box into something.

[ImBrotherCain]

Yes, There is actually a Toy Hall of fame in Rochester, NY. How many toys did you play with from this Hall of fame while growing up?

http://strongmuseum.com/NTHoF/NTHoF.html

I don't think Bicycle should be in it. That's more like a mode of transportation.

DUDE I SO TOTALLY LIVE IN ROCHESTER NY!!! And I never knew strong was a toy hall of fame. I knew it was a museum.

[WMD]

http://www.classictoysnyc.com/imagesthumb/GAM.jpg

[NY+Giants=NYG]

DUDE I SO TOTALLY LIVE IN ROCHESTER NY!!! And I never knew strong was a toy hall of fame. I knew it was a museum.

You should take a visit and see how it is.. I would if I was close by.

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/toys/images/collector_guides/motu_class/fig_shots/heman_f.jpg


http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/toys/images/collector_guides/motu_class/creature_shots/battlecat_02.jpg


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[bored of education]

Rubber duckies, Army Men, Hot Wheels, Jax should all be in

[Shane P. Hallam]

Me and my brother made a game with army men or G.I. Joes. Each team would have a side of the Living room and set up their guys, and you'd have a tin foil ball you got to toss and try to knock them off chairs and stuff. If it was army men and you were successful, you got to melt their asses!

[WMD]

http://spacecadetz.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/pogs.jpg

POGs. I never even played the "game", I just collected them.. and slammers.

[Shane P. Hallam]

POGS! I still have mine!

[nobodyinparticular]

They should have a "Flash-in-the-pan" wing to have the highly popular, short-lived toys. #1 in that wing would have to be "Tamagachi" pets. It was ridiculous how many people at my school at those when I was growing up--IN HIGH SCHOOL!

[nobodyinparticular]

In a decade or so, K'Nex is going to be added. It's way up there with TinkerToys, it just needs to continue with the longevity. And it will.

[WMD]

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/files/u12/furby.jpg


Quite obviously.

[NY+Giants=NYG]

Pogs.. Why does that sound familiar? I had them, but I forgot how to play them. I miss transformers generation 1 series I grew up with. This new stuff is lame. I like the old school stuff.

[Borat]

Pogs.. Why does that sound familiar? I had them, but I forgot how to play them. I miss transformers generation 1 series I grew up with. This new stuff is lame. I like the old school stuff.

Yeah, I had the original Megatron where he converted to a gun. That was awesome. Soon they outlawed it and he turned into something lame like a tape recorder or something like that.

[nobodyinparticular]

Yeah, I had the original Megatron where he converted to a gun. That was awesome. Soon they outlawed it and he turned into something lame like a tape recorder or something like that.

Haha! Megatron! Transform into...a...tape..recorder...

http://www.fransvaneeckhout.be/panasonic/audio/draagbare%20audio%202008/rq-2102e9_13.jpg

Hmmm. That's not quite as exciting as I thought it would be.

[WMD]

Pogs.. Why does that sound familiar? I had them

I'm guessing that's why it sounds familiar..