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Who wants toys from 1914?

9 years ago Philip Reed

This newspaper ad is from The Spokesman-Review in 1914, making the ad over 100 years old! This is from the era before Star Wars changed everything and made licensing and branding vital to the sale of toys, meaning that in this simpler time a toymaker could survive by making generic dolls and trinkets like stick horses and toy brooms.

These days the toy brooms and stick horses kinda need a brand behind them to really succeed. Who is ready for a Star Wars stick horse? We’ll make it a Tauntaun or Dewback and make millions!