with the exception of omitting Secret Base, I think the reporter did a pretty good job at the list.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packa ... 43,00.html

WTF? great toys for certain but not even mentioning MEGO for 1970s is just sad.. over 250,000 Planet of the Apes dolls alone is worth inclusion let alone MEGO spiderman. and again no mention of MARX?

others i would have to include;

IDEAL ZEROIDS
COLORFORMS OUTERSPACEMEN
AHI SUPERMONSTERS
TOMLAND STAR RAIDERS

80s
KENNER STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
AND OBVIOUSLY THE SMURFS

90s SB for sure but MARMIT M1 GO and GARGAMEL all needed to be there as well.
Great list though and most honorable to include FAKE VOMIT while not including
the beloved POO POO CUSHION! neither are really toys but i did play with both.

Yeah, that made me smile ..

Now I suppose someone will come and say the list is irrelevent because they forgot the Nagzofthehypez+1

Buck Roger's is from the 30's?! Dude is old.


Star Wars should be on there for 70's, 80's, & 90's. I guess "sales" numbers were not applicable.

Regarding the Star Wars, maybe that had a rule of only one toy type for the whole list. I'm surprised Aurora Models didn't make the list (technically not toys, but neither are Golden books).
Also, where is Matt Mason, Mego, Johnny West- I guess it's all subjective.

It seems like a reporter just compiled that list.
Where is the information on the parameters for qualification and how data was gathered?

While some of my favorites from childhood were included, this is really a bunk list without backup information on the selection process.

Anyone with an hour or two and access to google could make this list.

this is true. although if it took more time to identify a toy to put it on the list... it probably doesn't belong.

well, the part of the list I can relate to is the '80's and the most popular ones (i thought) are there... I can name a few more, there has to be a cutoff somewhere. I would have liked to see pogo ball (skip it had a catchier tune, but pogo ball was more awesome)

There is a nice expo at the McCord here that might complement that list. You can view a chunk of it online ;

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/expositio ... page=intro

Nice, i might go down and check that out. Lots of cool animalitos and they seem to have some nice Dinky Toys in there too (nothing near my uncles fabulous collection though).

No smurfs !!! Thats supra-whack, i'm irked enough to start posting pics of my collection (dude i've got the windmill !)

How dare they omit the original Fisher-Price bubble lawn mower. Or Super-Spirograph. My inner child is disconsolate!

Still need to get me some Rock'em Sock'em Robots.

shit I forgot about those,thanks another toy to add to the garage sale list, I love that once you hit the 90's that list turns into an f'ing trainwreck

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Is it because mass market toys really have taken a dive (as I believe) or is it that we just got too old to really judge 'em objectively? There's definitely a nostalgia factor for the toys of one's own generation, so I try to see through that ... I dunno.

It's to the credit of a lot of the toys on the list that they lasted much longer than the decade with which the list associates them. The "classics" are classic for good reason.

YES! Post Smurf pics (in a new thread?)

the 90's was great for action figures(marvel super heros in particular) and that's about all I can remember being good in the mainstream other than stuff that transitioned from the 80's which those would be part of, I'm just glad lego is back to putting out good toys and not jacked up licensed dribble cough cough prince of persia cough potter

I love how this list shows a really clear example of how cartoons and toys really joined forces for marketing in the 80's. Almost all the toys from the 80's list are based off/marketed with popular cartoons, which you don't see a lot of on any of the other lists.