It’s hard to imagine the holiday season without toy commercials flooding the airwaves. But in the mid-20th century, advertising products to children was still a relatively new concept. To get a better ...

It’s hard to imagine it now, but the earliest ads for toys weren’t meant for kids. The target audience was adults. Major toy companies rationale was that grown-ups were the ones spending their ...

Mr. Potato Head's most famous companion is his wife of 70 years, the red-lipped Mrs. Potato Head. But way back in the '60s, he hung out with a motley crew of plastic vegetables and fruits that are now ...

Which Mr. Potato Head toy is best? There’s nothing like a classic toy, and Mr. Potato Head toys are nothing if not that. They’ve been around since the 1950s and remain a popular children’s toy even ...

Potato Head has dropped the prefix. The plastic spud formerly known as Mr. Potato Head is going gender-neutral in a reintroduction. Hasbro announced Thursday that the company is officially dropping ...

The Mr. Potato Head brand is going gender neutral, the company that makes the popular plastic toy announced Thursday. Hasbro said in a statement it was dropping the honorific from the logo and ...

Mr. Potato Head, the classic Hasbro toy brand which includes the mustachioed Mr. Potato Head and clean-shaven Mrs. Potato Head, will soon be rebranded as the gender-neutral "Potato Head" toy line. The ...