Stick Inducted into Toy Hall of Fame

By Miss Cellania in Toys on Nov 7, 2008 at 11:58 am

An article from The Onion or a protest about the economy? Neither. The National Toy Hall of Fame has chosen the stick as an inductee.

The lowly stick, a universal plaything powered by a child’s imagination, has landed in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Baby Doll and the skateboard.

The trio was chosen Thursday to join the Strong National Museum’s all-star lineup. Previous inductees range from the bicycle and Mr. Potato Head to Crayola crayons and the cardboard box.

Curators at the Rochester museum say the stick is a special addition. They praised its all-purpose, all-natural, no-cost qualities and its ability to serve either as raw material or an appendage transformed by imaginations into something else.

Link -Thanks, Sid Morrison!

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matt
Nov 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
“Stupid carbon rod. It’s all just a popularity contest.”
-homer s.
Pudifoot
Nov 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I had one of those when I was a kid!
Xinavera
Nov 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It’s about durned time! Further proof that the best toy is the box it came in.

“log, log, it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood”
mike r baker
Nov 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Nice to see that the cardboard box made it in before the stick. Although, I did play with sticks more than boxes.

I wonder when they’ll induct matches? Ah, the memories.
PaulVI
Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I looked for this item at Toys R Us. They don’t have any. I guess they don’t make them anymore.

True Story portion of my comment: My son (20-mos) found a perfectly-sized dowel (0.5″ Diam., 30″ L.)on the ground on our way to the mail “house” of our apartment complex. Oh, the joy in his discovery! This device can be swung, poked, dragged, and pushed! It does it all!
Skipweasel
Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Ah, playing with matches – one of childhood’s great joys. Rather than stop ours, I encourage them to burn small things – but down the garden away from anything important and with a bucket of water nearby.
Far better than doing it in secret under the bed.

Can’t beat a good cardboard box though.
Randalll
Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Damn things can poke your eyes out. Buy your kid a nice toy gun and have him and his friends fantacize about killing one another. Much safer and normal.
Ali S.
Nov 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Ah the stick. Sword, companion, horse, and don’t forget my favourite Bo Stick as I pretended to be Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nice to see it was finally recognized.
CheeseDuck
Nov 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hah! So true. Sticks are SO fun.
neatoman
Nov 7th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
@ mike baker…

“Although, I did play with sticks more than boxes.”

That’s what she said.
Christophe
Nov 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
The stone and the puddle of mud are so sad they were not even nominated…
Halieus
Nov 7th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
What’s sad is that there is a group of people out there who in all their gloriousness, nominated a stick. I feel sorry for the mom’s they still live with.

I agree with Mike, haha.
Sid Morrison
Nov 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I told my kid that if he doesn’t keep his nose clean, there will be no stick for him this Christmas.

My friend’s three kids have been behaving themselves, so he’s considering getting them rock, scissors, and paper.

Yuk, yuk, yuk…

The funny thing is that the Strong Museum recently recently put in some very major expansions and financed them partly by selling antiques from their long-held collection … standard museum pieces that no longer fit in with their modern re-alignment to a “Museum of Play” image. To this end, they hired “experts” to appraise the items that were being offered for sale. Well, it turns out some of the “experts” they hired weren’t all that hot and some REALLY valuable items sold for pennies on the dollar. So, if you knew your antique vases, you could get a $1.5 million vase for $20K. Needless to say, when this all came to light, there was a lot of embarrassment.

And now they have exhibits of sticks.
gfjfghjjgfhj
Nov 7th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
what next? the ball? the cube?the magnet? the mirror?
Jeremy
Nov 8th, 2008 at 4:10 am
I’ve been to this play, the Toy Hall of Fame inside the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. You can get lost in the aisles and aisles of glass cases with all the toy inductees.

Its good to know there’s a stick in there now, because getting stuck in the doll section is REALLY creepy. I may need a way to defend myself.
MENLOHEAVYWEIGHT
Nov 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I was grounded for losing my stick, my mom was like “do think toys just grow on trees”

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