AND THE WINNERS ARE
1. Baseball cards. They've been around since the 1860s.
2. Cabbage Patch Kids. They debuted in 1982.
3. Nerf. The first Nerf product was a four-inch foam ball Parker Brothers sold in 1970. They billed it as the "world's first official INDOOR ball."
4. The Fisher-Price Corn Popper that toddlers push around. It wasn't actually nominated. They inducted it as a bonus in honor of the Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary. (It beat out four other "forgotten" toys.)
9 OTHER Finalists didn't get enough votes to make it in, including two toys that had a big year otherwise: Ken dolls and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The other toys that didn't make the cut are: Battleship . . . Bingo . . . Bop-It . . . slime . . . Choose Your Own Adventure . . . Connect 4 . . . and the Little Tikes red car.
Last year's inductees were: Lite-Brite, spinning tops, and Masters of the Universe.