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Gumby wasn't originally meant to be a toy. Art Clokey conceived Gumby as a character for an animated jazz video.

There are 43 quintillion possible configurations in a Rubik's cube, and only one is correct.

In 1952, little Anne Odell’s school restricted students to toys no bigger than a Matchbox, so her dad, made her a tiny die-cast steamroller

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In the U.S., federal authorities banned Lawn Darts in 1988 after they caused at least three deaths

Trolls were the second biggest selling doll of the sixties right after Barbie!

The original Transformers came from two different Japanese toy line. Hasbro later combined them into one and renamed them Transformers.

The dinosaurs created for Dino-Riders were anatomically correct and later used for the Smithsonian Institution’s own dinosaur toy line.

The Secret Wars toy line was Marvel’s answer to DC’s Superpowers and was a tie-in to Secret Wars comic book series.

Kenner discontinued production of the Star Wars line in 1986. They originally had plans to continue the toy line titled “The Epic Continues"

Each ThunderCat action figure featured an individually sculpted body, head, and accessory.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toys debuted before the cartoon series began, making the first show ever to be based on a toy.

In order for a standard deck of playing cards to be poperly mixed up to play with, they should be shuffled 7 times.

In 1968, the Hot Wheels Corvette, a reproduction of the real one, was on store shelves before Chevrolet had their '68 model at car dealers.

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Monopoly is based on The Landlord’s Game, introduced in 1903 by Quaker and political activist Elizabeth Magie. http://t.co/Sb7EmH17az

The record for playing Monopoly underwater is 1,080 hours.

The character locked up in the jail in Monopoly is "Jake the Jailbird". Officer Edgar Mallory put him away.

Spin Master makes more airplanes than Boeing.

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Dominoes are believed to have originated in China in the 12th century, though Egyptian or Arabian origins are also theorized.

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