Mr Potato head is a really cool toy that I loved from my childhood and one that I still have for my kids to play with today. My parents recently moved house and so had a big clear out and gave me a whole load of my old toys and this was one of them which I was really pleased to find again. According to an article I read Mr Potato head was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949 and was produced by Hasbro in 1952. It was originally produced as separate plastic parts that were meant to be stuck into actual real potatoes so I guess hence the name, Mr Potato head but government regulations ...
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