My Little Pony has again made the list of finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame. Maybe the seventh time will be a charm.   The pastel toy horse with the silky mane is among this year’s 12 contenders, said the announcement Wednesday from the Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester, N.Y. Introduced in the early 1980s, My Little Pony became an immediate hit, for a time outselling Barbie and spawning movies and TV shows. The 2010 animated series “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” led to the baffling trend of “bronies,” a fandom of grown men. Despite the popularity, My Little Pony has always fallen short in the annual balloting for the Toy Hall of Fame — taking a backseat to not only Barbie, American Girl and Cabbage Patch Kids but a stick and a cardboard box. Another ’80s favorite, Transformers action figures, is also on the short list again after multiple fails. The hall of fame, launched in 1998, every year inducts a few toys based on voting by the public as well as input from an expert panel. This year’s finalists: The party game Apples to Apples Balloons Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks Hess Toy Trucks My Little Pony The card game Phase 10 Pokémon Trading Card Game Remote-controlled vehicles The board game Sequence Stick horse Trampoline Transformers (Trivia item from the museum’s press release: The trampoline was patented in 1945 under the name “Tumbling Device.”) The public can vote through Wednesday, Sept. 25, at toyhalloffame.org, and the winners will be announced in November. Toy Hall of Fame inductees: Full list through 2023 alphabet blocks American Girl Doll, Atari 2600 Game System baby doll Baby Nancy ball Barbie baseball cards bicycle Big Wheel blanket bubbles Cabbage Patch Kids Candy Land cardboard box checkers chess Clue coloring book Crayola Crayons dollhouse dominoes Duncan Yo-Yo Dungeons & Dragons Easy-Bake Oven Erector Set Etch A Sketch Fisher-Price Corn Popper Fisher-Price Little People Frisbee G.I. Joe The Game of Life Hot Wheels Hula Hoop jack-in-the-box jacks Jenga jigsaw puzzle jump rope kite LEGO Lincoln Logs Lionel Trains Lite-Brite little green army men Magic 8 Ball Magic: The Gathering marbles Masters of the Universe Matchbox Cars Monopoly Mr. Potato Head Nerf Nintendo Game Boy paper airplane pinball Play-Doh playing cards puppet Radio Flyer Wagon Raggedy Ann and Andy Risk rocking horse roller skates rubber duck Rubik’s Cube sand Scrabble sidewalk chalk Silly Putty skateboard Slinky Star Wars action figures stick Super Soaker swing teddy bear Tinkertoy Tonka Trucks top Twister Uno View-Master Wiffle Ball Related Articles Retail | Big Lots closing Apple Valley distribution hub, laying off all 349 employees Retail | Pocketbook issues front of mind as Target, Best Buy launch holiday retail season Retail | Iconic Tupperware Brands seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy Retail | Biggest question from Kroger-Albertsons trials: What’s a grocery store? Retail | Sam’s Club raises starting pay for store workers, taking on Costco