Every year another piece of our childhoods are enshrined in The National Toy Hall of Fame as their inductee class for that year.
Created in 1998 by Ed Sobey, it was originally housed at A. C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village in Salem, Oregon, United States, but was moved to the Strong National Museum of Play (now The Strong) in Rochester, New York, in 2002 after it outgrew its original home.
As of 2023, eighty-five toys have been enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame.
This year’s finalists for the 2024 inductee class are sure to drum up some of your memories!
The finalists this year are:
- The board game Apples to Apples
- The board game Sequence
- The card came Phase 10
- The Pokémon trading card game
- ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books
- Hess Toy Trucks
- My Little Pony
- Remote-controlled vehicles
- The Stick Horse (a.k.a. Hobbyhorse)
- Trampolines
- Transformers
- Balloons
While the winners will be voted on by toy industry experts, there is a fan vote at MuseumOfPlay.org throughout the next week.
Three of the 12 toys will wind up getting inducted. They’ll be announced in November.
If you really want to go down the rabbit hole on this, TIME keeps an extremely comprehensive list of the greatest toys of all-time.
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