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Category: Culture and Society

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Star Wars Day: The Action Figures that Almost Weren’t

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 4, 2020May 30, 2020

Not long ago—1977, to be exact—in our very own galaxy, moviegoers witnessed the birth of…

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  • Culture and Society

What the Current Retail Numbers Could Mean for Toys

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 15, 2020June 19, 2020

The March retail numbers are out, and it doesn’t look good. The Commerce Department recorded…

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  • Culture and Society

Playing with Almost Nothing

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 8, 2020June 4, 2020

In these days of lockdowns and social distancing, resourcefulness has become a watchword in so…

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  • Culture and Society

Activity Sets: Playing with Glass, Foil, Plastic, and Goop

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 3, 2020June 4, 2020

Spending most of my time at home with my young children has revealed that I’m…

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  • Culture and Society

Playing with Sidewalk Chalk Brings Us Together While We’re Apart

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 24, 2020June 4, 2020

Museums, schools, gyms, and malls are closed. Basketball games, poetry readings, dance recitals, and playdates…

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  • Culture and Society

Down the Rabbit Hole

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 15, 2020June 4, 2020

Working at The Strong museum sometimes involves surprises—of the good kind. That was the case…

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  • Catalogs

Preserving Rubber Toys

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 6, 2020June 19, 2020

Rubber has been used to play ball since the first Mesoamerican ball games of the…

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  • Culture and Society

Collection of Street Photographer Martha Cooper

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on February 28, 2020

The Strong recently acquired the photographica collection of world-renowned photojournalist Martha Cooper. Kodakgirl, the nickname…

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  • Culture and Society

Coloring Fun: National Toy Hall of Fame Inducts Coloring Book

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 17, 2020

Crayola Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame way back in 1998,…

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  • Culture and Society

Major League Dreidel

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 20, 2019

"No Gelt, No Glory," Eric Pavony, the Knishoner of Major League Dreidel …… You may…

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  • Culture and Society

Is It Natural for Adults to Want to Play?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 4, 2019

For every ant, there has been a grasshopper. …… Our grandparents and great grandparents looked…

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  • Culture and Society

Toys and Tribalism

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on October 10, 2019

Tribalism: "The loyalties that people feel toward particular social groups and to the way these…

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  • Culture and Society

Ms. Monopoly Raises Important Questions; Some Thoughts

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 16, 2019

I believe what Hasbro is trying to do is create a vital family conversation about…

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Ken Fedesna Donation Documents Video Game Developer and Publisher Midway Games

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 12, 2019

Ken Fedesna, former Executive Vice President and General Manager at video game developers and publishers…

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  • Brands

Pinball History in the Archives

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 12, 2019February 11, 2022

Being on the Collections team at The Strong museum means that there’s never a dull…

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