{"id":2454,"date":"2021-08-23T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strong-wp.cloud.fruitionqa.com\/?page_id=2454"},"modified":"2024-11-12T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:10:43","slug":"inducted-toys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/exhibits\/toy-hall-of-fame\/inducted-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Inducted Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"heroInternal__bgImage \" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Toy-halls-crayon-700.jpg');\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heroInternal bgGradient bgGradient__small\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Toy-halls-crayon-700.jpg');\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n                <h1>Inducted Toys<\/h1>\n                <svg id=\"animateLink\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 300 11\"><g id=\"Layer_2\" data-name=\"Layer 2\"><g id=\"Layer_1-2\" data-name=\"Layer 1\"><path stroke=\"#ffd204\" fill=\"none\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" stroke-width=\"5\" class=\"cls-1\" d=\"M0,2.5c8.82,0,8.82,6,17.65,6s8.82-6,17.64-6,8.82,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.82,6,17.64,6,8.83-6,17.65-6,8.82,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.64-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.82-6,17.65-6,8.82,6,17.64,6,8.83-6,17.65-6,8.83,6,17.65,6,8.83-6,17.66-6,8.82,6,17.65,6\"><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/svg>\n                                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n            <ul id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumbs\"><li class=\"item-home\"><a class=\"bread-link bread-home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\" title=\"Homepage\">Homepage<\/a><\/li><li class=\"separator separator-home\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"breadsep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/images\/triangle-right.svg\"> <\/li><\/ul>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container-inside archive-block-4\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"intro-container\">\n            <div class=\"title-bar\">\n                <div class=\"title\"><h2>Recent Inductees<\/h2><\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"intro-text\">\n                <p>The National Toy Hall of Fame recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period. Each year, the hall inducts new honorees and displays examples in the Toy Halls of Fame gallery.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>\n        <div class=\"card-container columns-4\">\n                                                <div class=\"column-card\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_My-Little-Pony-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"My Little Pony\">\n                        <div class=\"card-content\">\n                                                                                    <h3 class=\"card-title\">My Little Pony<\/h3>\n                            <p class=\"excerpt-content\">\n<strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\n\n\nHasbro based My Little Pony on their earlier My Pretty Pony. At about 11 inches high, My Pretty Pony was made of hard plastic and came in one color\u2014brown with a white [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/my-little-pony\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of My Little Pony post\">View Details<\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"column-card\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_Phase-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Phase 10 card game\">\n                        <div class=\"card-content\">\n                                                                                    <h3 class=\"card-title\">Phase 10<\/h3>\n                            <p class=\"excerpt-content\">\n<strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\n\n\nBlack inventor and Detroit native Ken Johnson designed his first game, Dice-Baseball, when he was just 12. At 19, he decided to go into business for himself after being laid off from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/phase-10\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Phase 10 post\">View Details<\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"column-card\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_Transformers-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Transformer\">\n                        <div class=\"card-content\">\n                                                                                    <h3 class=\"card-title\">Transformers<\/h3>\n                            <p class=\"excerpt-content\">\n<strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\n\n\nIn the early 1980s, Hasbro secured the rights to Japanese toymaker Takara\u2019s Diaclone and Micro Change line of shape-changing robot toys. Hasbro developed the toys for a U.S. audience and in 1984 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/transformers\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Transformers post\">View Details<\/a>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                        \n                  <\/div>\n                <\/div> <!-- end gb container content -->\n<\/div> <!-- end gb container inside -->\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container-inside archive-block-3 \">\n    <div class=\"gb-container-content\">\n        <div class=\"intro-container\">\n            <div class=\"title-bar\">\n                <div class=\"title\"><h2>All Inducted Toys<\/h2><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"card-container\">\n            <div class=\"tax-container\">\n                <form class=\"filtering-form\" action=\"\"><!-- start tax sorting form -->\n                    \n                        <div class=\"filter-dropdown\">\n                            <select class=\"post-filter-select-placeholder\" name=\"\" id=\"\">\n                                <option value=\"toys\" class=\"cat-list_item tax-name active\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-termname=\"any\" >Year Inducted<\/option>\n                            <\/select>\n                                                        <ul class=\"post-filter-select-dropdown\">\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"1998\" >1998<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"1999\" >1999<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2000\" >2000<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2001\" >2001<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2002\" >2002<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2003\" >2003<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2004\" >2004<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2005\" >2005<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2006\" >2006<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2007\" >2007<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2008\" >2008<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2009\" >2009<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2010\" >2010<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2011\" >2011<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2012\" >2012<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2013\" >2013<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2014\" >2014<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2015\" >2015<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2016\" >2016<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2017\" >2017<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2018\" >2018<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2019\" >2019<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2020\" >2020<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2021\" >2021<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2022\" >2022<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2023\" >2023<\/li>\n                                \n                                    <li value=\"\" class=\"cat-list_item with-checkbox unchecked\" data-image=\"\/app\/themes\/navigation-pro\/src\/img\/unchecked.png\" data-posttype=\"toys\" data-catname=\"year_inducted\" data-termname=\"2024\" >2024<\/li>\n                                                            <\/ul>\n                        <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"post-count\">\n                        <span class=\"count-number\">9<\/span><span class=\"count-pt\"> toys<\/span>                    <\/div>\n                <\/form>\n            <\/div>\n            <!-- end tax sorting form -->\n                            <div class=\"archive-block-card\" id=\"ajax-contain\">\n                    <div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_Transformers-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Transformers\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Transformers<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\nIn the early 1980s, Hasbro secured the rights to Japanese toymaker Takara\u2019s Diaclone and Micro Change line of shape-changing robot toys. Hasbro developed the toys for a U.S. audience and in 1984 premiered Transformers with an elaborate backstory about a war between robots developed by Marvel Comics. The characters split into two fractions: the heroic Autobots\u2014peaceful transport vehicles led by Optimus Prime\u2014facing against the villainous Megatron and his Decepticons. Each of the figures issued in 1984 had its own [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/transformers\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Transformers post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_My-Little-Pony-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"My Little Pony\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">My Little Pony<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\nHasbro based My Little Pony on their earlier My Pretty Pony. At about 11 inches high, My Pretty Pony was made of hard plastic and came in one color\u2014brown with a white blaze. What made it a little bit endearing was the trigger beneath its chin that twitched its ears, winked its eyes, and swished its tail.\nIn 1983, Hasbro trotted out My Little Pony, six little pastel horse figures, each made of a soft vinyl with a silky mane [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/my-little-pony\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of My Little Pony post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NTHOF_2023_Baseball-Cards-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball Cards\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Baseball Cards<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2023<\/strong> \nBaseball players began posing for photos in the mid-19th century. Photography, like baseball, was becoming more widespread and popular. The late 1880s saw tobacco manufacturers including the cards in packages, to stiffen them and as incentives toward purchase. Soon candy manufacturers offered these premiums too, and went a step further, manufacturing their own cards. The production of cards burgeoned in the 1930s, when famous players like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were featured, and cards were printed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/baseball-cards\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Baseball Cards post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Top-sq.jpg\" alt=\"Top\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Top<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2022<\/strong>\nAncient peoples of Greece and Rome amused themselves with toys resembling the spinning tops we know today. Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old clay tops in Iraq and 3,000-year-old whip tops in China. Native peoples of the Americas played with tops in the 15th and 16th centuries.\nTop makers have formed their tops from clay, metal, stone, wood, and, later, rubber, tin, and plastics. Shapes and types of tops also vary, leading to the different ways in which the tops are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/top\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Top post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NTHOF_2024_Phase-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Phase 10\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Phase 10<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted 2024<\/strong>\nBlack inventor and Detroit native Ken Johnson designed his first game, Dice-Baseball, when he was just 12. At 19, he decided to go into business for himself after being laid off from his welding job at the Ford Motor Company. Johnson partnered with retailer Kmart to sell an updated version of Dice-Baseball, but the game ultimately fell short of sales expectations. Undeterred, Johnson began work on what would become a far greater success: the card game Phase 10. Phase [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/phase-10\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Phase 10 post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NTHOF_2023_Nerf-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Nerf Toys\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Nerf Toys<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2023<\/strong>\nIn the late 1960s, game designer Reyn Guyer and his co-workers at Winsor Concepts developed a game idea inspired by the popular Stone Age characters from The Flintstones television series. Guyer\u2019s game required players to toss foam \u201crocks\u201d at their opponents while protecting their own piles of ammo. Guyer offered the game to Parker Brothers, but the toy giant tossed out the game and kept the foam, preferring the notion of a ball that kids could play with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/nerf-toys\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Nerf Toys post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Lite-Brite.jpg\" alt=\"Lite-Brite\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Lite-Brite<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2022<\/strong>\nIn 1966, a New York City window display featuring hundreds of colored lights inspired toy creators Marvin Glass, Henry Stan, and Burt Meyer. Convinced they could design and build a plaything employing this concept, they simplified and streamlined the idea, and reduced the light source to a 25-watt light bulb. Their design placed a perforated plastic panel in front of the bulb and covered the panel with a simple sheet of black construction paper. When colored translucent plastic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/lite-brite\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Lite-Brite post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sand-sq.jpg\" alt=\"Sand\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Sand<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2021<\/strong>\nSand may be the most universal toy in the world. From a geologist\u2019s perspective, sand is a dry, gritty material consisting of small, loose pieces of rock, soil, minerals, and gemstones. But children recognize sand as a creative vehicle for play suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring. Wet sand is even better, ready to construct, shape, and sculpt.\nHistorians have every reason to believe that the earliest people played in sand. As early as the 1800s, newspapers [&#8230;]<\/p>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/toys\/sand\/\" class=\"card-cta button\" aria-label=\"View Details of Sand post\">View Details<\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column-card\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museumofplay.org\/app\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Risk.jpg\" alt=\"Risk\">\n    <div class=\"card-content\">\n                <p class=\"card-title\">Risk<\/p>\n                <p class=\"excerpt-content\"><strong>Inducted Year: 2021<\/strong>\nThe French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse designed a board game with simple rules but complex interactions, La Conqu\u00eate du Monde (The Conquest of the World) in 1957. Purchasing the rights, Parker Brothers published it with a few small changes as Risk in 1959. 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