In 1990 I called Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and asked them if they were interested in new toys to sell at their circus. This was a time when the circus had received terrible reviews regarding their toys. Ringling interviewed me along with other independent toy inventors to decide who would be commissioned to invent exclusively for them. After a process of elimination, I became the only independent inventor working for Ringling and they licensed many of my toys.
I was also influential in changing the method in which cotton candy was sold. Instead of the traditional paper cone, I devised a new type of packaging and merchandising. I came up with plastic buckets. The cotton candy was placed inside a polybag, which was then inserted into the bucket. I developed a fixture consisting of a long, hollow pole onto which several buckets could be hung. The vendors moved through the audience with the pole. Today in most arenas cotton candy is sold in polybags.