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Superhero Spring Break Presented by American Dairy Association North East

Soar into The Strong for a hero-filled spring break week! Enjoy meet and greets with some of the most beloved heroes, see LEGO displays, practice your superhero moves, become a

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Baseball Cards: Historic Highs and Lows

The oldest known baseball card shows the entire Brooklyn Atlantics team from around 1860. Later that decade, baseball became a professional sport and its public popularity soared.

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Building a Settlement: German-style Games in North America

January brought the start of a new year and also the start of a new project. I began to inventory and process the Mayfair Games archival materials that were donated to The Strong

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The Pirate and the Dollhouse

While cleaning out my parents’ basement before moving into my first-ever apartment, I came across two treasured “artifacts” of my past: a poster of Johnny Depp in his Pirates of

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A Galaxy’s Worth of Star Wars Action Figures

Have you ever heard anyone say “I think I have too many Star Wars action figures”? Of course not. Who would ever say such a thing? So, you can understand my excitement last

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Is Boxing Play?

Psychologists tell us that by age four, children are very good at differentiating playing from fighting. But, what about those events that fall in the middle, play-fighting and

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Why Celebrities Like Game Shows

By Adam Nedeff, researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History “What’s in it for THEM?” Have you ever watched Password, The $100,000 Pyramid, Match Game, or any

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Slime

Inducted 2025 Slime was created as an extension of an established chemical process. When sodium tetraborate (borax) combines with guar gum or polymers, it turns into a

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Traditional Influences on Digital Media

As a fan of the hit television series Man vs. Wild on Discovery Channel, I was thrilled by my chance encounter with the show’s celebrity adventurer Bear Grylls at E3. On screen,

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Coloring Fun: National Toy Hall of Fame Inducts Coloring Book

Crayola Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame way back in 1998, the first year of the Toy Hall’s existence. So it was well deserved when coloring books entered

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Comic Book Superheroes

Just how popular are comic book superheroes today? Judging by recent domestic box office receipts, electronic game and toy sales, and the robust memorabilia market, superheroes

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Masters of the Universe

Inducted Year: 2022 The story of Masters of the Universe begins in 1979 when Ray Wagner of Mattel formed a Male Action Team to explore creation of the company’s next big action

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