ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The little green army men, Rubik's Cube and bubbles were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame this week, beating out the American Girl dolls, Fisher-Price Little People, My Little Pony, Operation Skill Game, paper airplanes, pots and pans, Slip‘N Slide, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and--in an upset for the gas station and convenience store industry--the Hess toy truck.
To date, the following 56 toys have made it into the National Toy Hall of Fame: alphabet blocks, Atari 2600 Game System, baby doll, ball, Barbie, bicycle, Big Wheel, blanket, bubbles, Candy Land, cardboard box, checkers, chess, Crayola Crayons, dollhouse, dominoes, Duncan Yo-Yo, Easy-Bake Oven, Erector Set, Etch A Sketch, Frisbee, The Game of Life, G. I. Joe, Hot Wheels, hula hoop, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jigsaw puzzle, jump rope, kite, LEGO, Lincoln Logs, Lionel Trains, little green army men, marbles, Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head, Nintendo Game Boy, Play-Doh, playing cards, Radio Flyer Wagon, Raggedy Ann and Andy, rocking horse, roller skates, rubber duck, Rubik’s Cube, Scrabble, Silly Putty, skateboard, Slinky, Star Wars action figures, stick, teddy bear, Tinkertoy, Tonka Trucks and View-Master.
The defeat for Hess Corp., which has offered a truck annually since 1964, comes as it announced the newest addition to its line--the 2014 Hess Toy Truck & Space Cruiser with Scout, the official 50th anniversary truck.
It is also offering the first limited-edition, individually numbered Collector's Edition Hess Toy Truck, a green tanker truck that includes a replica of the 1964 truck.
New York City-based Hess is a leading independent gasoline convenience store marketer on the East Coast, with branded sites in 16 East Coast states from New Hampshire to Florida. Hess is the largest operator of convenience stores along the East Coast and the fifth largest in the United States by number of company-operated sites, with 1,256 stores located in 16 states. On Sept. 30, 2014, Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) subsidiary Speedway LLC closed its acquisition of Hess Corp.'s retail operations and related assets in a $2.82 billion transaction.
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