Play-Doh Plus Variety Pack

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And here at The Entertainer, we offer a fantastic range of Play-Doh sets to inspire your little one's playtime. uk/browse/toys/art-and-creativity-toys/dough-and-modelling-toys/c:42641/brands:play%252Ddoh/" on this server. Tien Liu reduced Play-Doh's salt content (thus allowing models to dry without losing their color), and Play-Doh ads were telecast on Captain Kangaroo, Ding Dong School, and Romper Room. More than two billion cans of Play-Doh were sold between 1955 and 2005, [1] and, in 2005, Play-Doh was being sold in 75 countries at 95 million cans a year. Joe McVicker was the brother-in-law of nursery school teacher Kay Zufall, who had seen a newspaper article about making art projects with the wallpaper cleaning putty.

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Play-Doh Plus launched with the company’s Sweet Treats line, but is now available in multiple other lines as well. In the 1980s, its cardboard can (with a rust-prone metal bottom) was replaced with a more cost effective plastic container. From the Magical Mixer Playset to the Pizza Oven Set, if your child is a budding chef or just loves to play with Play-Doh, these toys are sure to provide hours of enjoyment! Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales.

Since its launch on the toy market in the mid-1950s, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as the Fun Factory. The film was eventually cancelled and rejected after the acquisition of Fox's parent company 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company. The non-toxic, non-staining, reusable modeling compound that came to be known as "Play-Doh" was a pliable, putty-like substance concocted by Noah McVicker of Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Products. With a wide range of sets and themes to choose from, you're sure to find a Play-Doh gift for any occasion here. When it was first developed in the 1950s, Play-Doh wasn’t a kids’ toy: It was made to clean wallpaper that had been dirtied by soot from home heating systems.

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Play-Doh's current manufacturer, Hasbro, says the compound is primarily a mixture of water, salt, and flour, [2] while its 2004 United States patent indicates it is composed of water, a starch-based binder, a retrogradation inhibitor, salt, lubricant, surfactant, preservative, hardener, humectant, fragrance, and color. As the chemistry department rolled out small batches of tweaked compound, they were then sent to the design department, which would play with the substance and assess things like its consistency and stickiness.Through the years we’ve made some evolutions of the traditional Play-Doh compound to make it a little bit softer and to make the colors brighter,” says Gregory Lombardo, Senior Global Marketing Director for Play-Doh and other brands at Hasbro. McVicker, "Plastic modeling composition of a soft, pliable working consistency," Archived 2017-12-30 at the Wayback Machine U. In 1971, Rainbow Crafts and Kenner Products merged, and, in 1987, the Tonka Corporation bought the two.

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Providing endless opportunities for creativity and imagination - it's a toy that can be enjoyed by kids of all ages. From themed Play-Doh such as Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol to Kitchen Creations, what will you choose to build today? In 1960, the Play-Doh Fun Factory (a toy press that extrudes the compound in various shapes) was invented by Bob Boggild and Bill Dale. Play-Doh contains some wheat and may cause allergic reactions in people who are allergic to wheat gluten.

Play-Doh was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1998. From classic pots of Play-Doh to interactive playsets, we have everything you need to create endless shapes, objects, and characters. It was really a back and forth between our chemistry department and our design department to make sure that [the compound was] getting the type of performance it needed without the side effects we didn't want,” Lombardo says. Play-Doh Kitchen Creations are designed to encourage kids to explore their creative side in the kitchen, making playtime more interactive and fun! Following World War II, with the transition from coal-based home heating to natural gas and the resulting decrease in internal soot, and the introduction of washable vinyl-based wallpaper, the market for wallpaper cleaning putty decreased substantially.