KIDS TO PLAY HUMAN VERSION OF `CANDY LAND'

KIDS TO PLAY HUMAN VERSION OF `CANDY LAND'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Here's a sweet anniversary for the kids: the board game "Candy Land" will turn 50 tomorrow (Sept. 28). San Diego resident Eleanor Abbott created the classic kids' game in 1949 while recovering from polio, and thought it would be a good game for bored, bed-ridden children. She submitted the idea to Milton Bradley, and since then, more than 40 million Candy Land games have been sold. The new owner of Candy Land is Hasbro, and to celebrate the game's golden anniversary, it will stage a life-size version of the game at the FAO Schwartz toy store in New York City tomorrow. Dozens of nursery school kids will dress up like gingerbread men and move along an oversized game board, complete with a towering Candy Castle.