Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Winter is coming. We put together this list of figures and facts because nothing makes toys more fun than cold, hard data.

Collision Toolbox, our store for people who make stuff, will be opening soon! In addition to some really incredible vector resources, illustrations and type, we’ll also be offering all of the Holiday & Christmas Illustrations you see used in this graphic. Robots, sleighs, lights, trees, snowflakes and more! You can download these holiday illustrations for free! Right now!

If you’re interested in finding even more random facts about annual toy sales, model trains, old board games and Santa Claus, our sources are listed below:

Under the Tree: Toys that Made Christmas Special, 1930-1970 by Susan Waggoner

http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/PDFs/Research/RollingData.pdf

http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1983/12/shorrock.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-02-20/business/9402200071_1_toy-fair-toy-industry-toy-manufacturers

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Thanksgiving comes but once a year (or occasionally twice as stated in the illustration above). Now is a time for us all to reflect inward, and give thanks for our shortened work week. We hope these random Thanksgiving facts and anecdotes will shock and entertain your aunts and uncles as you attmpt to hide how drunk you are.

Illustrations and random facts for this ‘sort-of-infographic’ post were put together by everyone here at Collision in Chicago. So Happy Thanksgiving from Rob, Lisa, Albert, and Zach!

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