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Chris Byrne
The Playground Podcast
Join Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy® as he presents a series of interviews with industry experts will tackle the topics of the toys, culture, toy history and talk with some of the leading people in the business of toys and children’s entertainment. Designed for anyone interested in toys, play and great stories, each weekly episode will feature engaging, entertaining conversation, useful information, insights, tales of the toys that we’ll never forget and so much more.
As they say, if it concerns toys and play, we’ll be kicking it around in The Playground.
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4.8 stars from 13 ratings
A Window Into the Toy Business
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“I absolutely love this podcast! Richard, Chris and their guests consistently offer information about recent trends in the toy business while reaching back through history to inform and entertain listeners about the impact that vintage toys and toy pioneers have had over the years.
I especially...”Read full review »
AndrewDarlow via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/28/21
“Making my way through all of Richard’s and Chris’ podcasts! Learning so much from their guests and getting huge chuckles from their sense of humor!”
3 team via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/17/20
Fun and informative
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“Just listened to the Eggmazing story and found it both entertaining and enlightening (just like the best toys!).”
Engineer+teacher+gardener via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/07/20
Recent Episodes
In this episode Chris talks to Nelo Lucich, one of the co-founders of Skyrocket Toys about the company and notably their introduction of Poe: The AI Storytelling Bear.
Nelo and Chris talk about the process, the underlying structure and a little bit about the future of AI in the toy business....
Published 11/03/24
Published 11/03/24
Designing effective and engaging learning toys for children is always a challenge. It's one that Dr. Ben Miller has embraced. He's a learning scientist and senior learning designer for LeapFrog.
He talks with Chris about the concept of purposeful play, designing for learning, the opportunities...
Published 10/20/24
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