Readers have voted and now, after more than 32,000 votes have been cast across four rounds of the March of the Toys Madness, we are down to the Final Four.
How Rubik's Cube pulled away from Legos, 421 to 239, is a mystery to editors. Then again, in-house various reporters and editors had been pulling for toys that have long been left in the dust, such as the Cardboard Box, the Easy-Bake Oven, Lincoln Logs and Crayons. The rest of the Elite 8 match-ups were all landslides, with the Etch A Sketch pulling the stuffing out of the Care Bears, 526 to 109; Matchbox Cars leaving Transformers in the dust, 583 to 72; and Monopoly saying "game over" to the Wii, 546 to 76.
The Final Four means two match-ups (Etch a Sketch vs. Matchbox Cars; and Rubik's Cube vs. Monopoly) in Round 5 of the March of the Toys Madness, a March Madness style bracket competition that began in mid-November and lets readers vote to determine the No. 1 toy of all time in the Capital Region.