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The National Toy Hall of Fame class of 2025 is out. Some of your favorite toys get the honor of living on forever. Most of us have seen Toy Story and know this is a big deal lol. But who gets the honor this year?
Going into the HOF this year are slime, Battleship, and Trivial Pursuit. All are solid toys, most of us spent a LOT of time with these.
Battleship and Trivial Pursuit have each sold over 100 million copies during their decades-long runs. Many of fights were had over cheating with these.
Milton Bradley’s plastic Battleship edition from 1967 transformed the 1930s pencil-and-paper game into a hit, later inspiring a 2012 Universal Pictures movie.
Slime, commercially introduced in 1976, remains popular as both store-bought and homemade versions using ingredients like baking soda and glue, and this is how most of us have made the messes of our kitchens for years. The inductees beat finalists including Catan, Connect Four, and Tickle Me Elmo.
What toy do you think needs to be in the HOF next year?