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As early 6-10 months old, infants are drawn to characters who intervene to help, protect, or do good for others. So is our love for superheroes innate?

While Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon had captivated their parents’ generation in the 1930s, children of the 1950s saw a renewed fascination with space travel, accentuated by sci-fi films and […]

After much rejection, Fred Lundahl (founder of Buddy L Toys) got his first big break into the toy business when he proved the exceptional quality of his product by standing […]

The word Taxicab comes from a contraction of “taximeter” and “cabriolet”, coined by Harry Nathaniel Allen, who founded the New York Taxicab Company in 1907. The taximeter, a mechanical device […]

The word ambulance comes from the Spanish word ambulancia, which was first used in the 15th century. Rooted in the Latin ambulare which means “to walk or move about”, ambulancia […]

If you’re a collector of vintage plastic toys, you may have heard of the name Islyn Thomas (O.B.E.), an influential plastics engineer and businessman who was inducted into the Plastics […]

The colourful, whimsical carnival rides we call carousels today actually emerged out of a middle-eastern combat training exercise dating to the 12th century! In the 1100s, European crusaders witnessed Arabic […]