There was a special kind of magic in growing up with toy commercials that felt more like blockbuster movies. These were the action figures, dollhouses, plastic monstrosities, and neon-hued gadgets ...

From Changeables to McNugget Buddies, these 1980s McDonald’s Happy Meal toys have turned into valuable collectibles worth ...

There's just something satisfying about toy commercials from the '80s. A couple of kids are actually playing with the product being sold and shouting out one-liners while some wicked guitar riff plays ...

1.Teddy Ruxpin. Okay, Teddy was a little creepy...but, I mean, come on, he TALKED! Also, nothing was better than putting on a cassette by Madonna and watching him sing the songs. James Keyser / Getty ...

Every year during the holidays from 1982 to 1991, McDonald’s would air a commercial that, thanks to its consistency, has become as synonymous with Christmas as candy canes and reindeer. In it, a group ...

With last week’s release of Midsommar, a film we hailed as, “…awash with tension“, one would think that the marketing would focus on critics and audience responses. Nope. Instead, A24 went the quirky ...

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Last month, I ran a tiny media experiment in my own home: I recorded all of the toy commercials that my 3-year-old daughter watched in a one-week period, looking for patterns in how she was being ...