Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5676549 | Toy finger painting apparatus Toy painting apparatuses which provide means for finger painting a substrate without the user coming into direct contact with the paint. The painting apparatus has paint dispensing means and also provides a relatively thin, flexible, transparent, protecti... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5545072 | Image projective toy An image projecting toy comprised of a toy figure and an associated internally disposed projection system, the projection system including a disk assembly containing a segmented film element having a plurality of images which are transilluminated by an il... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5533920 | Self-propelled musical toy ball A self-propelled musical toy rolling ball which plays musical tunes and sound effects. The ball may also include decorative images on its surface which may generally correspond to the musical tune or sound effects played by the ball. The electronics of th... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5405142 | Pinball machine with an interactive three-dimensional figure A pinball machine comprising a housing having provisions for translating a ball in play throughout a plurality of locations therein, including at least one rotary spinner and active bar bumper, said housing further including flippers, inactive bumpers and... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5399115 | Blinking doll with power storage mechanism A doll with an eyeblink mechanism includes an eye with a reciprocatable eyelid, a drive providing intermittent slow rotary motion, and a torsion spring for accumulating such rotary motion, as necessary, and converting each predetermined quantity of such r... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5377655 | Projectile-propelling toy and kit therefor A projectile-propelling toy includes a first port and a first propulsion mechanism for propelling a projectile via the first port as well as a second port and a second propulsion mechanism for propelling a projectile via the second port. The first and sec... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5376038 | Doll with programmable speech activated by pressure on particular parts of head and body This invention relates to talking dolls of the type having internal prerecorded speech mechanisms. More particularly, the present invention relates to talking dolls of the type having internal prerecorded speech mechanisms, wherein the doll's educational ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5346418 | Kit for assembling toy weapons A kit for assembling a plurality of toy weapons includes a basic weapon having a first configuration and a first plurality of conversion adaptors for converting the basic weapon to a second plurality of different weapon configurations. The basic weapon an... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5281143 | Learning doll A doll, apparently capable of learning through a combination of human speech and touch interaction, includes a speech generator for generating upon actuation the currently indexed sound in a predetermined sequence of sounds. The sequence of sounds evidenc... | 01/25/1994 |
