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Following World War II, with the transition from coal-based home heating to natural gas and the resulting decrease in internal soot, and the introduction of washable vinyl-based wallpaper, the market for wallpaper cleaning putty decreased substantially. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. Looking at key consumer insights over the past couple of years, we have seen a growing desire for new ways for children to express their creativity, and cultural trends, like the viral sensation slime has become amongst today’s kids and tweens, helped inspire the launch for this year,” Adam Kleinman, Hasbro’s vice president of global brand marketing, told the HuffPost in September. On the most popular children’s television show of its time, Captain Kangaroo catapulted Play-Doh into the national spotlight. It’s interesting to think that a product that started off as a popular wallpaper cleaner has become one of history’s most iconic toys.

McVicker wanted his product to reach a larger audience, not just schools, but he lacked a substantial advertising budget. In the early 1930s, Noah McVicker was working for theCinncinati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Products, whichwas asked by Kroger Grocery to develop something that would clean coal residue from wallpaper. Like the play-doh story, and the story of this iconic toy, who would have thought at the time a product that started off as a popular wallpaper cleaner would become one of history’s most well-recognized and memorable toys? The original Play-Doh was sold in one-pound cans and came in just three colors: red, yellow, and blue. When the Great Depression hit and wallpaper sales declined, Kutol Products had to find a new use for their product.Let’s talk about the history of play-doh or playdough, and how the play-doh story is not much different from the story of many other popular items we are familiar with today. In this report, we will discuss the history of Play-Doh, from its invention to its popularity today. Do you think play-doh would be the popular and iconic toy it is today if not for Bob Keeshan, also known as Captain Kangaroo?

Keeshan loved the product and made an arrangement with McVicker to use Play-Doh at least once a week on his show. To preserve its proprietary pungency, Hasbro filed for trademark protection in 2017, claiming the product had “a unique scent formed through the combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough. Around this time, in 1955, McVicker’s sister-in-law, Kay Zufall, a school teacher, convinced him to think about their product as a handicraft and play object. In the 1980s, its cardboard can (with a rust-prone metal bottom) was replaced with a more cost effective plastic container.Sales skyrocketed, and Rainbow Crafts struggled to keep up with the overwhelming demand for this new toy. More than two billion cans of Play-Doh were sold between 1955 and 2005, [1] and, in 2005, Play-Doh was being sold in 75 countries at 95 million cans a year.