toys

When we outgrow our toys, we tend to shove them into a drawer and forget about them. But not everyone does that.

Everybody remembers their favorite Christmas presents from their childhood, whether they were toy trains or  pretty dolls, or, if not the specific toy, just how much fun they where to play with. I still remember my gifts from the past and how much fun they brought to me, even if they did eventually stop functioning. In the spirit of the holidays, this is my list of my top five favorite Christmas p

The National Toy Hall of Fame is awfully fond of these toys.

Remember Madballs and Popples? If you, like us, managed to successfully block out most of your childhood, the answer is a resounding "no"!

The search for Mr. Gold -- a recently-released LEGO Minifigure -- has collectors opening their wallets wide, with the average 1.5-inch figurine bringing in about $800 in eBay auctions.

Andre Cassagnes, the man responsible for inventing the venerable Etch A Sketch, a toy that inspired countless children ever since it was introduced in 1960, has died at age 86 in France.

You can always spot a parent around the holiday season. Their hair is a frazzled mesh of cow licks and stray strands as if it’s been pulled by a crowd of frantic people. Their eyes dart around in all directions desperately seeking something that could suddenly appear at a moment’s notice. They break down and cry during commercials that advertise “the hottest toy of the holiday season.”

Thirteen year-old McKenna Pope is fighting mad at Hasbro, and this little activist wants some positive changes now. The eighth grader, who hails from Garfield, New Jersey, has started a petition on Change.org asking Hasbro to make their Easy Bake Ovens more gender-neutral.

Scandinavian Toys"R"Us licensee Top-Toy has taken a new approach to making sure kids get what they really want for Christmas: a fully gender-blind catalog that erases the line between boys' and girls' toys.

In a pleasantly surprising move, a Swedish toy company called Top Toy has made a giant leap for gender equality amongst children. Top Toy's Christmas catalog features an interesting twist: the boys are the ones who are playing with dollhouses and the girls are happily playing with the Nerf guns.

This is not technically called the BoogieBot. It's a hexapod robot called the PhantomX built from a kit and controlled via radio that you can buy from Trossen Robotics' website. But you've got admit, this robot has some moves in that opening...