May 10, 2026 · 10 min · 12 segments
For nearly 100 years, PEZ has quietly travelled through childhoods, collections, road trips, kitchen drawers, and pop culture history. Now… something extraordinary is happening. On opposite sides of…
Over in the United States, the National Toy Hall of Fame is housed inside the legendary Strong National Museum of Play.
The museum began back in 1968, founded by Margaret Woodbury Strong, a wealthy collector with enormous passion for dolls, toys, and everyday objects connected to childhood and imagination.
She had amassed hundreds of thousands of items, dolls, toys, miniatures, games, household items, even advertising pieces.
Basically, if it sparked nostalgia or playfulness, there was a good chance Margaret Strong had tucked it away somewhere.
After her passing, her collection became the foundation for it to eventually grow into one of the world's most respected museums dedicated entirely to play.
It's interactive, a living celebration of play culture, video games, board games, comics, pop culture, educational exhibits, and of course, massive archives of toy history.
And in 1998, the National Toy Hall of Fame moved there, turning Rochester, New York, into the spiritual capital of toy nostalgia.
Over in the United States, the National Toy Hall of Fame is housed inside the legendary Strong National Museum of Play.
The museum began back in 1968, founded by Margaret Woodbury Strong, a wealthy collector with enormous passion for dolls, toys, and everyday objects connected to childhood and imagination.
She had amassed hundreds of thousands of items, dolls, toys, miniatures, games, household items, even advertising pieces.
Basically, if it sparked nostalgia or playfulness, there was a good chance Margaret Strong had tucked it away somewhere.
After her passing, her collection became the foundation for it to eventually grow into one of the world's most respected museums dedicated entirely to play.
It's interactive, a living celebration of play culture, video games, board games, comics, pop culture, educational exhibits, and of course, massive archives of toy history.
And in 1998, the National Toy Hall of Fame moved there, turning Rochester, New York, into the spiritual capital of toy nostalgia.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
