Cardboard Box Joins Toys Enshrined in Hall of Fame ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - The National Toy Hall of Fame, headquartered at Rochester's Strong Museum, announces its latest inductees. And perhaps most prominent among them is something that doesn't start life as a toy at all, but as the box it might have come in.

The cardboard box is itself among the enshrined toys in the hall of fame, according to the museum's Chris Bensch, because it so often becomes a vehicle for a child's imagination.

Other toys honored this year are the jack-in-the-box and the board game Candy Land, which has been a childhood favorite since 1949.

Bensch points out that the jack-in-the-box has wowed children ever since it first appeared 600 years ago.

The Strong Museum's Patricia Hogan says CandyLand broke ground for games directed at pre-schoolers.
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