Science Holds Spotlight in Toyland
When Mom. 1>*<1 and the young
sters visit toyland this Christmas
season they will find science firmly
entrenched.
There is a multitude of toys de
signed to intrigue junior and his
sLeter with careers in electronics,
plastics molding, rocketry, weather
forecasting, radar, botany, biology,
chemistry and physics.
‘ This is a natural phenomenon,”
says Edward P. Parker, president
cf the Toy Manufacturers of the
U. S. A., Inc. “Toys are like a mir
ror. They reflect the world around
us. While adults are being spurred
to increase activities in the scien
tific fields, our youngsters are fol
d owing suit as they are being ex
posed to greater scientific informa
tion in the schools.”
History Emphasized
Significant, too, is a strong trend
toward relating children’s play to
history, says Mel Freud, president
of Toy Guidance Council. Most re
markable of the new history-based
.play concepts is a famous inventor
saries, which offers the junior
scientist kits with which he can
construct working replicas of Alex
ander Graham Bell’s telephone, the
Gutenberg printing press, Edison’s
electric lamp and so on.
A major manufacturer of radio
and television set has gotten into
the toy line with a series of seven
“educational projects,” which in
clude assembly kits for: a basic
transistor lab, transistor radio,
transmitter, intercom, analog com
puter, electricity lab, and an elec
tionics lab. The kits include man
uals which not only give construc
tion details, but. also explain the
scientific principles involved.
The Wild West continues very
big in toyland with replicas of fron
tier shooting irons, an indoor skeet
shoot, and a new stagecoach strong
box with a secret shooting lock. A
concealed cap pistol booms and pro
trudes its muzzle if an interloper
turns the key.
Little lads with a mania for play
ing war can hold target practice
with the Red Fox Missile, a rocket
fired from a hand gun.
Games Go Strategic
The Civil War has found a place
in toyland. There are uniform hats,
replicas of guns, and several Civil
War games. Both the American
Heritage game of Civil War and
another named “1863” permit the
South to win, if the game-playing
generals are adept in their strate
gies.
Some other new games include
the United Nations Flag Game
which permits the players to travel
the world with flags; Summit, a
game that puts the family circle
into global politics; and Stratego,
a Napoleonic game that uses gilded
field marshals as playing pieces.
In tune with today’s interest in
world affairs is a new globe which
youngsters can construct.
The always popular car and truck
line offers a new heavy steel gauge
version of the mobile crane, an air
line lift truck which raises its body
off the chassis to load and unload
planes, and a camp truck with
trailer hauling a houseboat.
Innovations in juvenile transpor
tation include a ricksha.
Phone Talks Back
Electric train accessories feature
a simulated Fort Knox-bound car
loaded with gold bricks, a sheriff
outlaw car with lively shoot-it-out
action, and cars equipped with ra
dar and rockets.
New thrills for the toddlers in
clude a talk-back telephone which
chatters when rolled and a pull
toy called Big Bill Pelican which
has a fish inside its bill.
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