History Ch. - The Toys that Built America Series 1 (2021) Part 3 Toy Car Wars

The Toys That Built America Series 1

The Toys That Built America chronicles the stories & rivalries that gave rise to the modern toy industry. Against the backdrop of events like the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Vietnam War, visionaries like Milton Bradley, the Parker Brothers, Ruth and Elliott Handler, and Merrill Hassenfeld all courted failure and ruin at every turn on their way to building billion-dollar empires.

Part 3 Toy Car Wars

As car culture cranks up in the early 1950s, a young machinist in England invents one of the world's most successful toys when he creates a toy car small enough to fit inside a matchbox for his daughter to take to school. In Los Angeles, Elliot Handler creates one of the biggest toy rivalries in history when he brings on a former missile designer to make a toy car behemoth of his own.

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