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Rocket USA founders John Eisner and Michael Perry want to revitalize the lost art of tin-toy manufacturing and bring about a full-scale robot invasion. They have to make up for lost time–a lot ...
A classic toy brand is putting its foot down on how NASA rockets are launched. After 30 years of producing "kid-powered" projectiles of its own design, Stomp Rocket is releasing its first NASA set.
If you buy a new toy rocket ship from a company called Educational Insights, the cardboard box it comes in isn’t supposed to be recycled ... which plans to phase out plastic boxes by 2022.
The Block 1 (the rocket will evolve for future missions, and it will grow even more powerful) was 322 feet tall (98 meters), weighed 5.75 million pounds (2.6 million kg), and cost roughly $20 ...
In 1955, Quaker Puffed Rice offered a deed that entitled the consumer to a 1-inch plot of land in the Yukon; Nabisco’s Wheat Honeys promised a launching plastic rocket; Alpha Bits included ...
The toy that never was The “Rocket Fett,” as it is sometimes called, was part of a mail-away promotion from American toy maker Kenner, which had sold popular toys from properties like “Star ...
The other half of the egg contains a small plastic toy. Kinder Joy is produced by Ferrero, ... Lego Marvel Rocket & Baby Groot Minifigure set is now 20% cheaper in this Amazon Sci-Fi deal.
The rocket-firing Boba Fett action figure was supposed to be a giveaway. But executives at American toy company Kenner later realized the missile was a choking hazard. Heritage Auctions In 1979 ...
A plastic “Star Wars” action figure that’s fewer than 4 inches high and has peeling paint just fetched $525,000 at auction. The ultra-rare, 3 and 3/4-inch, rocket-packing Boba Fett figurine ...
Nationwide standards were later passed to govern how toy guns are made so as to be distinguished from the genuine thing (i.e. with bright-colored parts, such as an orange band around the barrel).
Model rocket maker Estes has released a 1/66 scale model of Blue Origin's dick-shaped New Shepard rocket — and we are here to warn you that whatever it looks like, it is not an operable sex toy ...