Corn Popper
$10, fisher-price.com
In 1957, inventor Ralph Crawford was playing around with an idea for a toy that involved balls popping up. Annoyed with the way they kept bouncing off his worktable, he covered his apparatus with a clear plastic hood. Presto. To date, more than 20 million sold. Why kids dig it: Kids who are just learning to walk like push toys, because they provide help with balance. Then there's that exciting cause and effect, which makes small people feel powerful: Push it, and you produce not only psychedelic explosions of multicolored balls inside that space capsule but also the sound of cosmic, mind-expanding Jiffy Pop. — Winter 2006 By Gregory Lauzon
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