Honey Toy Industries obtained the rights to Von Braunhut’s kit and began marketing it in 1960 as “Instant Life”. He saw their potential as a “pet” and developed a simple, three-step kit that allowed aspiring young marine biologists to raise their own brine shrimp in a container of water. To be specific, they are Artemia Salina (brine shrimp) which were thought of as mere fish food for many years until Harold von Braunhut – a man who is famous among toy enthusiasts for inventing X-Ray Specs – discovered these marvels of the sea.
Sea Monkeys are not actually monkeys, but they do come from the sea and are real living things – contrary to popular belief and urban legend. With the help of elaborate ads that seemed to appear in every comic book released during the late 1960s and 1970s, the scientific marvels known as Sea Monkeys became one of the most popular toys of all time. Sea Monkeys took this process one step further and allowed more enterprising youngsters to actually create life. Lego, Erector sets, and countless other similar items let kids build elaborate kingdoms and complex machines to satisfy the need to create. There have been plenty of toys that allowed children to put their natural creative energies to work.
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