Are you Ready for movies about Slip 'N Slide, Frisbees and Hula Hoops?

This whole business of making toys into movies is really starting to get out of hand. The Wham-O toy company has just signed a deal with ICM for representation to help in the process of bringing their toy products to the big screen. This is the same toy compnay that brought the world classic toys such as  Frisbee, Hula Hoops, Super Ball, Slip 'N Slide, Hacky Sack, Boogie boards and several others.

THR brings up the fact that Wham-O also developed a ton of interesting toys that never really went anywhere, "such as a do-it-yourself bomb shelter (created during the time when backyard bomb shelters where de rigeur) and the “instant fish” idea that consisted of selling mud with eggs from a unique species of African fish (they wouldn’t mate in America)." I would have loved to play in a do-it-yourself bomb shelter!

It's not surprising that Wham-O would want to try and capitalize on the toys they have developed, after all every other major toy company is doing it right now. I guess they'd be stupid not to try. But I seriously doubt any good movie or TV series will come from it. 

ICM also represents Atari and has made deals at studios to develop films for Asteroids at Universal, Rollercoaster Tycoon with Sony Pictures Animation and Missile Command at 20th Century Fox. It wont be long before we see a Slip 'N Slide movie go into production.