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1st May 1952: Mr Potato Head goes on sale for the first time
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-04-30 21:05:47
Description: On the 1st May 1952, Mr Potato Head first went on sale.  The idea for making a “funny face man” using a vegetable and plastic body parts was first proposed by George Lerner from Brooklyn in the 1940s.  In 1951 he successfully sold the idea to a breakfast cereal manufacturer who planned to include the accessories in their cereal packets, but when the Hassenfeld brothers – the founders of Hasbro – met with Lerner later that year they agreed to buy the concept back off the cereal company and to produce and market Mr Potato Head as a toy. The ...
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