And the newest inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame are…the swing, the Dungeons and Dragons game and the Fisher-Price Little People.
Officials at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester announced the winners this morning. They say the swing is seen in ancient cave drawings in Europe and ceramic vases from early Greece. By the 19th Century, the industrial revolution made chain and ropes cheap and readily available, and the swing blossomed outside homes and in parks and playgrounds everywhere.
Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game created in the 1970s, and the Fisher-Price Little People first appeared in a school bus pull toy in 1959. Both were meant to encourage the imagination for different age groups.