Toy Fair Frighteners: don’t bring your kids

New York’s Toy Fair, one of the industry’s biggest annual conferences, doesn’t let children attend. Even reporters under the age of 21 are banned. The assumed reason is that it’s a trade show, not a theme park, and crowds of kids would turn it into a chaotic waste of time. Another reason, however, could be that there’s a new glass-eyed horror around every corner, waiting for night to fall so that it may help you see forever.

1. [Art]

   Ah…. TOY FAIR!

   I was a designer @ Mego from 1975 to 1977 and Toy Fair meant working 18 days in preparation.

   The ‘good old days’? Not really

2. [Art]

   Meant: 18 HOUR days. (sorry)

3. [el_beardo]

   glad to see that MADBALLS are coming back!

4. [Enochrewt]

   #3: Yeah, Woooo! Madballs! Such a glorious waste of money for a child, along with all those Garbage Pail Kids cards I used to collect.

5. [RICKER2011]

   Great Keyboard – if you like a quite house. But wait a minute the screetch of a terrified child is much worse than the noise of a child beating up a keyboard.

   Thanks for posting the pics, thats a great show -haven’t been for a few years now, but I remember it was fun.

6. [hectorinwa]

   Better yet, the keyboard makes cat sounds too, so you can really do the Meow Mix song some justice. (or terrorize your dog)