Great list! I had one of my own I published a while back, mine was more tech focused but we did have some overlaps.

https://mad-ned.medium.com/the-70s-toys-that-were-stand-ins-for-computers-to-come-472282809804

not sure why any of these were so popular. my take on it was that we didn't have computers then so the bar was low for what constituted fun lol.