What is the most iconic toy of all time?
Some were engineered, some were accidents, and one was named after a president who refused to shoot a bear.
1Teddy bear
Named after Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear that had been tied up for him.
2LEGO brick
The interlocking plastic brick patented in 1958 and still compatible with every set since.
3Barbie
Mattel's fashion doll, launched in 1959 and redesigned for every decade since.
4Rubik's Cube
The Hungarian architecture professor's puzzle that sold hundreds of millions and spawned a speed-solving sport.
5Slinky
A coiled spring that walks down stairs, invented by accident in a naval engineering lab in 1943.
6Hot Wheels
Mattel's die-cast cars with the orange track, launched in 1968 and collected by adults ever since.
7Yo-yo
One of the oldest toys in the world, revived as a craze in America in the late 1920s.
8Play-Doh
A wallpaper cleaner repurposed as modelling compound in the 1950s, and still sold by the tub.
9Etch A Sketch
The red-framed drawing screen with two knobs, launched in 1960 and erased by shaking.
10Rocking horse
The wooden nursery toy that predates the whole modern toy industry by centuries.
11Game Boy
Nintendo's 1989 handheld, the toy that put a games console in a coat pocket.
12Model train set
The tabletop railway that turned a hobby into a lifelong obsession for whole households.
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