Fisher-Price Toy Minivan, 1985-1990
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When Fisher-Price introduced this toy minibus in the late 1960s, it was designed to look like the small VW bus popular at the time. By the mid-1980s, when the minivan began to replace the station wagon as the family car of choice, Fisher-Price simply renamed this toy the mini-van -- though they didn't change the toy's design.
When Fisher-Price introduced this toy minibus in the late 1960s, it was designed to look like the small VW bus popular at the time. By the mid-1980s, when the minivan began to replace the station wagon as the family car of choice, Fisher-Price simply renamed this toy the mini-van -- though they didn't change the toy's design.
Artifact
Toy (Recreational artifact)
Date Made
1985-1990
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, New York, East Aurora
Creator Notes
Assembled in Mexico for Fisher-Price, East Aurora, New York.
On Exhibit
at Henry Ford Museum in Driving America
Object ID
2010.100.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Plastic
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in (of minivan)
Width: 3.75 in (of minivan)
Length: 6 in (of minivan)
Height: 5.75 in (of box)
Width: 3.75 in (of box)
Length: 9 in (of box)
Inscriptions
license plate decal on front of minivan: FP-141 decals on both sides of minivan body: MINI VAN decal on rear of minivan: FISHER-PRICE / '69 FISHER-PRICE TOYS EAST AURORA, N. Y. / ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO on box: FISHER-PRICE / LITTLE / PEOPLE / MINI VAN / AGES 2-6 / U.S. PATENT 3,708,912
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