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Colorforms

Gumby Colorforms
Inventor(s)	Harry and Patricia Kislevitz
Company	Colorforms Brand, LLC (9 Story Media Group)
Country	United States
Availability	1951–present
Materials	Vinyl sheet, glossy paperboard
Slogan	It's more fun to play the Colorforms way

Colorforms is a creative toy named for the simple shapes and forms cut from colored vinyl sheeting that cling to a smooth backing surface without adhesives. These pieces are used to create picture graphics and designs, which can then be changed countless times by repositioning the removable color forms. The name also refers to the specific registered trademark brand these products are produced under, as well as the company that manufactures the toys, Colorforms Brand, LLC.

Sets initially featured basic geometric shapes and bright primary colors on black or white backgrounds. Eventually, however, the Colorforms line evolved to include full-color illustrated playsets, games and puzzles, interactive books and creative activity sets for children of all ages. The licensing of media properties related to contemporary pop culture became integral to the product and company's success. Since its inception, more than a billion Colorforms playsets have been produced and sold.

Company timeline[edit]

• 1951 - Harry and Patricia Kislevitz experiment with new flexibly vinyl sheeting material to decorate their apartment by cutting out shapes and affixing them to smooth surfaces; they realize that this could be applied to an activity toy set, thus beginning the Colorforms concept.
• 1957 - Popeye becomes Colorforms' first licensed character applied to its products.
• 1959 - Graphic designer Paul Rand creates the Colorforms logo.
• 1968 - The Outer Space Men carded action figures are released.
• 1962 - Miss Weather, a Colorforms character featuring a wardrobe that changed with the weather, makes her debut.
• 1981 - Colorforms acquires licensing rights to Shrinky Dinks kits; during its licensing period, Colorforms created and marketed more than 50 different Shrinky Dinks toy activity and creativity kits.
• 1997 - Toy Biz acquires Colorforms.
• 1998 - University Games acquires Toy Biz.
• 2000 - Colorforms listed among the Top 10 Toys of the Century by the Toy Industry of America (TIA).
• 2011 - Colorforms named one of the Top 100 Toys of All Time by Time magazine.
• 2014 - Out of the Blue Enterprises acquires Colorforms
• 2018 - 9 Story Media Group acquires Out of the Blue Enterprises

Peanuts
The Peanuts gang Top row left to right: Woodstock, Snoopy, Charlie Brown Bottom row left to right: Franklin, Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, Sally Brown
Author(s)	Charles M. Schulz
Website	www.peanuts.com
Current status/schedule	Concluded, in reruns
Launch date	October 2, 1950 (dailies) January 6, 1952 (Sundays)
End date	January 3, 2000 (dailies) February 13, 2000 (Sundays)
Syndicate(s)	United Feature Syndicate (October 2, 1950 – February 26, 2011) Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (February 27, 2011 – present)
Genre(s)	Humor, gag-a-day, satire, children

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all,^[1] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".^[2][3] At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.^[4] It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States,^[5] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.^[1]

Peanuts focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are never seen and rarely heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant.^[6] Peanuts is a literate strip with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones, which was innovative in the 1950s.^[7] Its humor is psychologically complex and driven by the characters' interactions and relationships.

Peanuts achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas^[8] and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,^[9] won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The Peanuts holiday specials remain popular and had been broadcast on network television for over 50 years before moving to the Apple TV+ streaming service in 2020.^[10] In addition, the specials occasionally rerun on PBS and PBS Kids since 2020.^[11] Peanuts also had successful adaptations in theatre, with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown an oft-performed production. In 2013, TV Guide ranked the Peanuts television specials the fourth-greatest TV cartoon of all time.^[12] A computer-animated feature film based on the franchise was released in 2015.

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