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 ...

Bette Midler took to Twitter this week to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the Mr. Potato Head toy following Hasbro's decision to rebrand the line. Earlier this week, the classic toy brand, ...

Hasbro’s recent decision to drop the “Mr.” label from its Mr. Potato Head collectibles sparked debate over gender roles, political correctness, cancel culture and more, but Bette Midler isn’t seeing ...

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 ...

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 ...