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Big Wheel Finally Gets its Due
Watch out world – the Big Wheel is driving into the history books. The low ridin’ three-wheeler just earned its place in the National Toy Hall of Fame, along with two other inductees for 2009.
And the winners are . . .
The ball and the Nintendo Game Boy (along with that easy rider that’s surprisingly hard to pedal). Runners up included Cabbage Patch Kids, Game of Life, Hot Wheels, Paper Airplane, Playing Cards, Rubik’s Cube, Sidewalk Chalk, Toy Tea Set, and Transformers.
Housed at the Strong Museum of Play, the National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted forty-four faves since it opened up in 1998.
The Big Wheel is also celebrating its fortieth birthday this year – launched in 1969 at the New York City Toy Fair, it’s been low riding all over America ever since.
Did you ride one?
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Toys’ Pasts - Sordid and Not - Revealed | Strollerderby commented on Dec 05 09 at 11:30 amBrett Singer commented on Nov 12 09 at 3:58 pmI loved Big Wheel. I think they stopped making it for safety reasons, although I’m too lazy to look it up.
jeannesager commented on Nov 12 09 at 3:59 pmNope – it’s still very much alive. Although it freaks out my Dad who says he can’t see the kids down low on the road when he’s driving.
Mistress_Scorpio commented on Nov 13 09 at 8:13 amI remember being a Fresh Air Fund kid, sent to a farm in NJ. I would join the farm kids on riding our Big Wheels down a grassy hill and then slamming on the brake as hard as we could so we would be pitched over the handlebars and tumble over and over down the hill. It was awesome. I (stupidly) attempted this stunt when I was back home in the South Bronx and just ended up with skinned knees and elbows.
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