Hand in hand with the Goops came Palmer Cox's Brownies, who were a huge hit in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. These accident-prone, irrepressible pixies kept running off for more adventure no matter what mishaps they had recently endured. Their illustrated antics appeared in Ladies' Home Journal and children's magazines, and also spawned a series of books, puzzles, games, and toys. (An old-fashioned multimedia platform.) The Brownie Blocks, for instance, were a set of 20 cubes, covered with lithographed images that could be arranged to depict reproductions of six scenes of Brownie havoc. In this depiction of "a typically blundering group effort," as Young writes in Drawn To Enchant, some of the Brownies were supposed to be cutting ice but wound up in need of an ill-conceived rescue. Like their (sort of) heirs the Smurfs, the Brownies did everything en masse, maximizing opportunities for mayhem but also demonstrating the virtues of friendship and loyalty.