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Sales skyrocketed, and Rainbow Crafts struggled to keep up with the overwhelming demand for this new toy. After World War II, families often converted coal-based home furnaces to oil and gas, thus reducing the soot residue issues that many homeowners previously battled. Accidental Brands" Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine, from Under the Influence, by Terry O'Reilly, on CBC. Keeshan loved the product and made an arrangement with McVicker to use Play-Doh at least once a week on his show.

Bob Keeshan, who portrayed the Captain, would talk about the product twice a week on his show, earning 2 percent of sales.

Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales. His creativity prevailed once again when he introduced his new line of Play-Doh to Bob Keeshan, otherwise known to the television world as Captain Kangaroo. They have released a number of different themes, including movie and television tie-ins, as well as a variety of tools and accessories. 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. At one point it was accompanied by an elf mascot, which was replaced in 1960 by Play-Doh Pete, a boy wearing a beret.

Fox Molding 'Play-Doh' Film With Paul Feig Circling; Another Hasbro Toy Brand Making Movie Transfer".McVicker traveled to Kay’s school to see the Kutol Products “clay” designs that her classroom had made and was happy with what he saw. In 1972, General Mills placed Play-Doh under the Kenner brand name, and Kenner continued to manufacture Play-Doh until the company was acquired by Hasbro in 1991. It has come a long way since its inception in 1955, and it is still beloved by children and adults alike. 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. The product line branched out in 1960 with the introduction of the Play-Doh Fun Factory, a toy press that allowed the compound to be pumped out in different shapes.

Children of all ages enjoy a fresh whiff of that inviting aroma emanating from a nontoxic mixture of flour, water, salt, borax and mineral oil. A struggling family-run company transforms a popular wall cleaning product, known as Kutol Wall Cleaner, and re-invents it, turning it into the iconic toy we all know as play-doh today, or sometimes referred to as playdough with the homemade versions. Rainbow Crafts repackaged the product, now known as Play-Doh and marketed it to elementary schools in the greater Cincinnati area.They would open them and you could see this furtive look in their eyes as the aroma hit them,” Bensch says. McVicker wanted his product to reach a larger audience, not just schools, but he lacked a substantial advertising budget.