Decades before his star role in the 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story, Mr. Potato Head was a business trailblazer. As the first toy to be marketed on television, Mr. Potato Head broke new ground with ads ...

“Any fruit or vegetable makes a funny face man,” reads the package to the original Mr. Potato Head, first marketed nationally in 1952. That’s right, you didn’t even need to stick those ...

Unlike regular dolls, a Mr. Potato head kit wasn’t self-explanatory. Hasbro decided it was worth investing in TV ads for the product—a first for the toy industry. The historic marketing move ...

Mr. Potato Head, the classic Hasbro toy brand which includes ... (Consumers would provide their own vegetables to jab the pieces into.) He first sold the idea to a cereal company, which planned ...

When Mr. Potato Head first appeared on the market in 1952, the toy was very different from the smiling plastic orb we see in the "Toy Story" movie. The original Mr. Potato Head was basically a box of ...

And American Girl is now selling a boy doll. Mr. Potato Head first hit the toy scene in 1952, when it didn’t even come with a plastic potato — kids had to supply their own vegetable to poke ...

Profitable for Hasbro, as people are thinking (and talking) about Mr. Potato Head for the first time in decades. Profitable for the media ecosystem, which lit up with all the hot takes about how ...

The Potato Heads were the first toys to be marketed directly to ... into this tendency to create families. It has sold Mr. Potato Head family sets, with a male and a female character, along ...

Decades before his star role in the 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story, Mr. Potato Head was a business trailblazer. As the first toy to be marketed on television, Mr. Potato Head broke new ground with ads ...