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In the mid-1980s, CBS revived the Creative Playthings name to use on a line of wooden playground equipment. These were produced in Herndon, PA, and a CBS-owned plant, which had also made Tinkertoys. After CBS divested itself of its toy lines beginning in 1985, the name was sold to a playground equipment manufacturer in Framingham, MA.
However, it continued to manufacture wooden wagons and playground equipment. Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name Howdy Doody. [2] In 1959, Gendron Wheel moved most of its manufacturing to Archbold, Ohio. [5] The Perrysburg plant was closed in 1963.
Hubley's main competition in the early years was Arcade. [2] Early toys were known for their complexity; a delicate 11 inch long Packard Straight 8, a five-ton truck that came complete with tools, a road roller that came in five different sizes, a steam shovel with working arms and shovel, and Chrysler Airflows with take-apart bodies. [2]
Their Big Wheel trikes, model trains, wind-up toys, and toy soldier sets were among Marx Toys bestsellers worldwide. Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots even got movie cameos, as vintage toys in "The Santa ...
For several years in the early to mid-1950s, Nylint made construction pieces exclusively. In 1956, Nylint started to take advantage of the Cold War military craze. They made several missile-launching gun toys and made an uncharacteristic plastic ballistic missile set. These military toys had many operating features and sold well.
Pyro was the leading manufacturer of military "bin toys" in the early 1950s. [4] Bin toys were relatively inexpensive items, usually an assortment of miniature green-plastic "army men", vehicles or accessories, packaged in poly bags, wholesaled in bulk, and sold "grab-bag-style" from large cardboard bins in retail stores.