Chapter 1: What is the cultural significance of the Easy Bake Oven?
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Chapter 2: How did Kenner revolutionize children's cooking toys?
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Chapter 3: What safety concerns were associated with the Easy Bake Oven?
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Chapter 4: How did the Easy Bake Oven evolve through the decades?
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Chapter 5: What marketing strategies were used for the Easy Bake Oven?
Hodgman. Yeah, we've done a few toys. Play-Doh, Slinkies, right? What else? Does a boomerang count as a toy? It's a way of life, mate. We've done tons. We did Silly Putty. Silly Putty, sure. We did, you know, a bunch.
Chapter 6: How did gender roles influence the Easy Bake Oven's branding?
The balls. Yeah, the balls. The balls episode. How balls work. They round and they bounce. We did balls like a million times in that episode. Yeah, this one's kind of cool, though. The Easy Bake Oven, which I never had one. Did you ever have one in your home? I don't think so, no.
Chapter 7: What changes were made to the Easy Bake Oven in the early 2000s?
I don't think my sister had one either. Although I was a pretty tubby kid, so it's possible that my mom was like, make sure your brother doesn't know you have one of those. Do not feed your brother anything from there. But it's interesting that this is one where sort of a very simple idea – And you never can tell what's going to hit toy-wise.
Nothing super complex about this other than you could literally bake food and sort of pretend to be an adult in the kitchen. That was the basis of it, being an adult. That was kind of Kenner's thing. And Kenner, the people who made Star Wars toys, were the ones behind this. And they were very much into toys that let kids pretend they were grown-ups.
Chapter 8: What is the legacy of the Easy Bake Oven today?
Yeah. That was their bag. Yeah. I have a new neighbor, actually. Shout out to Rick, Kathy. Hey, guys. Boy, they really got under your skin, huh? What? Rick and Kathy got a shout out on the podcast and their new neighbors? Geez. Yeah, because he worked for, I was talking to him and I was like, he seems like a good guy. And I was like, what do you do, Rick? He's retired now. What did you do?
And he's like, I was a toy and action figure designer for Kenner. And I was like, whoa. What years? He came on after his first, the first thing he worked on was the Tim Burton Batman movies. Nice. And he stayed on for a long time, like his whole career, like after they were sold and everything. Wow. Pretty neat. That is very cool. Yeah. Good for him. Yeah. He still does wonderful sculpture.
Oh, I'll bet. Just go after Rick Watkins Art online and check it out. I'm going to check it out. But, I mean, Kenner is such a big deal to people our age and of many ages, but I didn't realize their origin as a company.
Yeah.
Remember in the – we did a whole action figures episode. Remember? Oh, yeah. And we talked a lot about Kenner. Was that a two-part episode or was it just like an hour and a half long? I feel like it was just long. It was very long. But Kenner almost didn't do the Star Wars ones if I remember. But for us at least, that put Kenner on the map.
What I didn't realize is that Kenner was already on the map as far as toys go.
Yeah.
And one of the ways that they got there was from the Easy Bake Oven. which debuted in November of 1963, right around the time that John Kennedy was shot. Yeah, but Kenner had been around since the 1940s. Albert Phillip and Joseph Steiner formed the company after, as legend goes, one of them saw a bubble, you know, maker, bubble wand or whatever you call them. Yeah. And was like, hey...
If I could do a gun that shoots bubbles, we might be on to something. And that was their very first product is the bubblematic gun.
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