Spotted Online – A History of Coleco
A news station posted a segment on the history of Coleco for Christmas, and now Action Figure Insider has shared the video so that we can all see how the people of a Connecticut news station view the past.
As we should expect this two-minutish segment hits the highlights, but what surprised me is that they failed to mention that Coleco ultimately collapsed in the eighties and that some of their properties (Cabbage Patch Kids!) went on to become a part of Hasbro. Anyway, watch the video and then check the Wikipedia entry on Coleco . . . and don’t miss the Coleco Museum website for looks at just some of the Coleco products of the past.
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