The Toys That Built America: Snack Sized

Season 1

2021 · 5 episodes · 1h 37m in all

Episodes

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   1. Ready Player One

   12 Dec 2021 · 19 min

   From its humble beginnings in an 1880s card shop, to singlehandedly resurrecting the video game industry, learn about how an iconic name in gaming came to be. Before creating one of the world's most famous video games starring two Italian plumbers, this icon once tried making soup, vacuum cleaners, and hotels. Get Ready Player One... this story is a game-changer.

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   2. Mattel aka Masters of the Universe

   12 Dec 2021 · 21 min

   When Mattel opened their doors as a picture frame company, they had no idea they'd become the empire behind the world's most popular toys. But Mattel didn't get to be number uno without a few wild cards and intergalactic battles.

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   3. Real American Toy Heroes

   19 Dec 2021 · 19 min

   Since its founding in 1923, Hasbro has grown from a modest textile and school supplies business into the biggest toy company in the world. Yet one of their most successful toys got started from old tin cans.

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   4. Way Past Go

   19 Dec 2021 · 19 min

   Three brothers from Massachusetts help turn an obscure form of entertainment into a billion-dollar global industry; one of their bestselling games becomes an Olympic sport, and another popular product is inspired by a caveman.

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   5. The Games of Life

   26 Dec 2021 · 19 min

   Milton Bradley goes from making lithographs in 1860 to making some of the most popular games of all-time. But their most iconic game wouldn't exist without the polio epidemic!