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Chronicles of Classic Toy Origins
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  • 1. Spring-loaded surprise sprung from Victorian toy chests of delight
  • 2. Urban capitalism board game immortalizing real estate battles since the Great Depression
  • 4. Mechanical doodling board enabling monochrome artistry since mid-20th century
  • 6. Pioneering color plastic dye tech that revolutionized toy imagery (invented early 1930s)
  • 7. Interlocking rods and spools predate modular robotics (invention 1914)
  • 11. Brand associated with vintage toy radios imparting aural nostalgia from the 1930s
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  • 3. Vintage toys revealing static charge, named after early physicists’ devices (circa 1910)
  • 5. British construction system marrying engineering and play, launched pre-WWI
  • 8. Ancient gravitational toy perfected by Filipino street performance circa 1920
  • 9. Corporate titan resurrected 1940s projectile game mechanisms
  • 10. Pre-cinematic, circular animation device spinning illusions since the 1830s
  • 12. Twisting chromatic puzzle that encoded spatial cognition in the 1970s
  • 13. German master of tinplate automata, attributing steam-like motion to playthings (in 1900s)
  • 14. Lucky charms turned dolls with roots in early 1900s Americana folklore

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