The Toys That Built America returns with the untold stories behind the most iconic toys in history! Tonight, after one of America’s biggest toy companies passes on a massive moneymaker, will a smaller rival force its hand?
The Toys That Built America
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Masters of Invention
42m | 2021 | TV-PG | CC
The incredible creations of some of the most iconic toys in history happened by chance. During World War II, a naval engineer accidentally creates an iconic spiral toy that walks down stairs, when he's trying to come up with a way to protect ship equipment from damage. At the same time, an engineer is trying to invent a synthetic rubber for the war effort and instead creates a strange putty that becomes another world-famous toy. It's the origin stories of these toys and more, and the genius entrepreneurs who brought them to the world.
