The National Toy Hall of Fame revealed the 12 finalists for its 2025 class:
- The board games Battleship
- Catan
- Trivial Pursuit
- Connect Four
- Cornhole
- Furbies
- The scooter
- Slime
- Snow
- The Spirograph
- "Star Wars" lightsaber
- Tickle Me Elmo
The winners will be voted on by toy industry experts, plus public voting at MuseumOfPlay.org throughout the next week. The inductees will be announced in November.
Battleship, slime, and Connect Four were all nominated two years ago, but they didn't make the cut. The three toys that were inducted last year:
My Little Pony
Transformers
The card game Phase 10
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