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Eddy Goldfarb, born in 1921, served as the chief radio technician of the USS Batfish in World War II. As a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland, Eddy Goldfarb Goldfarb's childhood was not much different from that of other children, but he was constantly thinking, tinkering, and reading Popular Science.

His first three toys—the Yakity-Yak Talking Teeth, the Busy Biddy Chicken, and the Merry Go Sip—were successfully exhibited at the 1949 New York Toy Industry Annual Exposition. Thus began his career as a toy inventor. In his early years, because of life difficulties, Eddy Goldfarb had to sell his toy ideas directly to certain toy companies, such as Revell Toys, but then he realized that this This approach would not bring him commercial success, nor would it allow him to become an independent toy inventor.

Eddy Goldfarb _ _   Patent drawings of the first three toy designs, from left to right: Yakity-Yak talk teeth , Busy Biddy and Merry Go Sip

Subsequently, he successively submitted multiple invention applications to the USPTO, and then licensed more than 50 products to Ideal Toy Company through patent authorization, including Snake's Alive!, Roy Rogers Quick Shooter Hat and Marblehead et al. In the early 1960s, Goldfarb licensed a plastic molding kit, the Vac-U-Form, to Mattel, which became a success.

Eddy Goldfarb's representative works include Talking Teeth, KerPlunk, Stompers, Bubble Guns, Vacuum U-Shapes and Battle Tops. KerPlunk is a game consisting of plastic tubes, sticks, and marbles created by Goldfarb and Rene Soriano and originally marketed by the Ideal Toy Company. This toy has been on the market since its launch in 1967. The bubble gun is the most iconic work of Eddy Goldfarb. Now, in addition to being a popular children's toy, the bubble gun is also used as a screening method for autism in some children. Tool of. Stompers, a truck and track game, was quickly returned by the company that originally licensed the electric truck and track set, but a small toy company called Schaper Toys found Eddy Goldfarb. , hoping he would offer a product that would help them avoid bankruptcy. Eddy Goldfarb took the truck and track rig out of the closet and provided them with team support and engineering expertise as part of the licensing agreement. Under the creative direction of Goldfarb and lead designer Del Everitt, Stompers was a huge commercial success, selling millions of units and now becoming a rare collector's item.

A giant in the toy industry, Goldfarb was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame in 2003 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Toys and Games Group in 2010. Across the pond at the London Toy Fair, he became the first American to win the International Toy Designer and Inventor Award.

Despite holding nearly 300 patents and creating more than 800 toy products, Eddy Goldfarb credits his three children, two grandchildren, and his creations for millions of other children. His impact is his true legacy - as a family man, Goldfarb believes that true success is "when one of our games sells a million copies... we know that there are a million families playing this together." games,” adding that his inventions are all about “the education of children and the unity of families.”

Today, at the age of 102, Eddy Goldfarb continues to handcraft new objects in his studio.