Up first is the Lite-Brite, which was originally marketed in 1967. Two decades later, the company promoted the light box and colored plastic pegs product with a catchy tune. My Little Pony has been ...

Commercials That Shaped the 80s and 90s: Whether it was the fashion, the music or just the vibe, the 70s left us with ...

There's just something satisfying about toy commercials from the '80s. A couple of kids are actually playing with the product being sold and shouting out one-liners while some wicked guitar riff plays ...

Linda Kaplan Thaler wrote the tune with best-selling author James Patterson when both were working for an ad agency. The woman behind the iconic Toys 'R' Us jingle, featured in the commercials from ...

1.Teddy Ruxpin. Okay, Teddy was a little creepy...but, I mean, come on, he TALKED! Also, nothing was better than putting on a cassette by Madonna and watching him sing the songs. James Keyser / Getty ...

With last week’s release of Midsommar, a film we hailed as, “…awash with tension“, one would think that the marketing would focus on critics and audience responses. Nope. Instead, A24 went the quirky ...

Last month, I ran a tiny media experiment in my own home: I recorded all of the toy commercials that my 3-year-old daughter watched in a one-week period, looking for patterns in how she was being ...

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