Headquartered in Forest Park, IL., Rocket USA is a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of quality made toys, games, gifts, and novelties. It was founded in 1997 by Michael Perry.

COMPANY PHILOSOPHY
Rocket USA was founded on the premise that consumers would welcome the opportunity to buy quality reproductions of tin toys, games, and gifts. Initially Rocket USA’s designs were patterned on what many consider to be America’s Space Age of Innocence. This was a time when space exploration and robotics were in the beginning stages and every man, woman and child was full of fanciful notions about robots, space travel and the galaxies beyond. This premise has been expanded to include a broader range of fun, imaginative and uniquely designed toys, games, gifts, and novelties.

“The challenge and the fun for Rocket USA is to come up with creative toys and games. As people fall in love with them and want them, the toys build equity for the company and evolve a history of their own”, says Michael Perry, Rocket USA President.

Rocket USA has developed a product and marketing philosophy to support its commitment to these classic values.

ROCKET USA PRODUCT LINES
Rocket USA’s product lines are especially appealing to those who remember the golden era of durably-built, wind-up, bump-n-go, all-tin toys of the 1950’s and 60’s. Although, Rocket USA has tapped into the current trend of retro nostalgia, it is not the only ingredient in its recipe for success.

Rocket USA’s ability to successfully combine a modern day twist to its nostalgic identity has also played an integral part in it’s continued growth. It was sought out by Twentieth Century Fox and Matt Groening to design and produce toys and gifts featuring characters from their hit animated TV shows Futurama™ and The Simpsons™. Rocket USA has gone on to obtain other top notch licenses such as The Family Guy™ and Bozo the Clown™. This ability to combine the old with the new has helped pave the way for the renewed interest in yesteryears toys for a new generation of children.

Self proprietary product lines include:

Within these categories, each product is packaged with Award-Winning box art and packaging designed by Rocket USA. It is made with high-quality materials and patterned after classic styles of the toy’s era. The packaging adds an aesthetic value that is attractive not only to collectors but anyone who enjoys quality graphics and substantive packaging.

Rocket USA prices all of its products competitively and markets them through catalogs, independent gift, toy, model, hobby, comic and specialty retailers and chains.