Popular toys of the last 100 years

It’s hard to imagine how demand was generated for toys before $100 million ad campaigns, or even before the Sears-Roebuck catalog. But it would have been equally hard for people back then to imagine shoppers crashing through doors and hurting one another over videogame consoles. Anyway, here’s a Forbes list of the 20th century’s most popular toys, the Xboxes of their day (except delivered as promised to the local dry-goods store). It’s too bad the Raggedy Ann doll isn’t still popular—TV stations could use them to mock-illustrate crazed shoppers tearing one another limb from limb.