It’s a question toymakers large and small have been trying to answer for decades as they race to come up with the magic formula. For Wyon Stansfeld, owner of Pinocchio’s Toys and Gifts ...

Twentieth century newspaper trend reports show that oranges won't be coming back in vogue as Christmas stocking stuffers ...

while budding artists turned to the mechanical drawing toy Etch A Sketch and the Lite-Brite, whose “magic” light box and multicoloured plastic pegs offered a world of creative possibilities ...

“He had no idea what an etch-a-sketch was and I didn’t realize a ... and Santa doesn’t know what it is, it destroys the magic.” He does have a problem with people who look at “Santa ...

“We named it Etch-A-Sketch, and it became an instant success,” Killgallon said. “It was one of the first [toys advertised] on TV.” The best-selling toy was produced in rural northwest Ohio ...

But, business really boomed after they bought the rights to a small doodling device. “We named it Etch-A-Sketch, and it became an instant success,” Killgallon said. “It was one of the first [toys ...

White pulls a MacGyver-esque move and mixes aluminum powder from an Etch A Sketch and some rusty iron (iron oxide ... “It just makes me mad, and it makes people think that science is magic. That’s ...

That magical screen that let you draw and erase endlessly wasn’t magic after all. Inside the Etch-A-Sketch was a thin layer of aluminum powder. The knobs controlled a stylus that scraped away ...

The G.I Joe action figure, play cookers and the Etch a Sketch could also be found under ... It was originally called the Magic Cube, although they soon realised there was nothing magical about ...