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Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:17:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> Seems like this show could/should have been titled "Top 10 Toys for Baby
> Boomers and GenX to get all nostalgic about".
LOL! Yeah, it seemed like more of a top-10-of-all-time than a top 10 of now
kinda thing. I caught a re-run of it last night, and it was interesting to
make notes on the dates of introduction of the products/toys. Almost all of
them seemed to be started two or three or four decades prior to LEGO -- maybe
that was part of their criteria. I heard that they also may have lifted the
list from a book called _The_Toy_Book_ (whose author was part of the
interview/commentary ring).
> Slinky? Oh puh-lease, give me a break!
Isn't Slinky still a pretty popular toy? I was suprised that the Yo-Yo was
at number 1, but they talked about how sales at Duncan were doubling and
tripling in recent years and they couldn't keep up with the demand. Go
figure. :) What really got my goat, though, was seeing Crayola Crayons on
the list at all -- because I disagree that a crayon is a toy.
I'm gonna try to catch next week's (er, this coming week's) show to see if
they mention LEGO in the reader mail... At the very end of the one on toys,
they had some thing about cars the previous week and explained why, in their
mind, suggestions sent in by readers on their website hadn't made their list
the previous week.
--Todd
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| (...) It seems to be. At least, I still see it around, in various forms. But the 'top 10 list' seems to not be based on sales figures, so it is logical to assume that it is an attempt at identifying the 10 'best' toys of all time. Slinky is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Seems like this show could/should have been titled "Top 10 Toys for Baby Boomers and GenX to get all nostalgic about". Slinky? Oh puh-lease, give me a break! Steve (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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