Obit: The man who invented Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots, popular back in the 1960s and thereafter, as died at the age of 99. Burt Meyer was also responsible for MouseTrap, another product that was heavily advertised in the 1960s.
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Born in 1926 as Burton Carpenter Meyer, he enlisted in the Navy and served for two years as an aircraft mechanic. After retiring from toy making, he moved to Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, where he built small planes and could be seen deftly steering them aloft from a nearby private airfield well into his 80s.
In interviews, Meyer often drew parallels between aerospace engineering and toy design, saying both required ingenutity and teamwork.
“When you’re flying the airplane, use every resource that you have in there. That’s why we were able to turn out so many successful products,” Meyer said, crediting his success to the highly collaborative environment at Marvin Glass & Associates.
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