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 Water
Talkies: BKFK Kids Advisory Board Member, Richie Stachowski
began inventing at the age of 11. He invented a megaphone-like device
to use underwater to communicate with his friends. His underwater
Water Talkies were a big success selling at major retailers like
Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart and Toys"R"Us in over 13 countries.
Rich continued to invent more water toys and he developed his own
company to market his inventions. At the age of 13 he sold his company
for over $1 million dollars!
 Cabbage
Patch Kids: Xavier Roberts invented Cabbage Patch Kids. Xavier
was only a teenager when he started the Babyland General Hospital
where people could adopt a baby (the hand sewn dolls were never
called dolls) complete with adoption papers. Roberts and five friends
started a company to produce the dolls. The Coleco toy company liked
Xavier’s ideas and began selling them under the new name of
'Cabbage Patch Kids.'
 Lincoln
Logs: Lincoln Logs were designed and developed by John Lloyd
Wright, son of one of America's most famous architects, Frank Lloyd
Wright. The younger Wright came up with his idea for Lincoln Logs
when he was traveling with his father in Tokyo and became inspired
by the construction techniques used in the foundation of the earthquake-proof
Imperial Hotel, which his father designed.
 Jenga:
You know JENGA! right? It's the second best selling game in the
world and it was invented by a kid! Leslie Scott invented a game
played with stackable wooden blocks. Leslie, a British Citizen,
came up with the idea while living in Africa as a teenager. The
word JENGA is Swahili for "build".
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