Toy Inventor Recognized With Lifetime Achievement Award

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Toy Inventor Recognized With Lifetime Achievement Award

December 27, 2010 by Angela Shupe | 0 Comments

For the last six decades, Eddy Goldfarb’s toys have made their mark on the imaginations of many. According to Venture County Star, his toys have make just as much of an impact on Christmas morning as any other inventor.

Goldfarb has created so many toys he was recently given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Toy & Game Inventor Conference in Chicago. In 2003, he was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame.

The awards are well deserved for a man who is considered one of the giants in the toy industry, his contemporaries say.

“He’s like Jimmy Stewart; he’s an icon,” said Mary Couzin, president of the Chicago Toy and Game Group. “He is one of the fathers of the toy and game business.”

Though he’s in his 80s, he’s still making games and able to figure out what kids want.

“He’s able to see things through the eyes of a child,” said Mike Hirtle, head of product acquisition and inventor relations for Hasbro. “In the outside world, nobody probably knows who Eddy Goldfarb is, but in the toy industry, everyone knows him.”