Toy Stories

Long before video games, tablets and battery powered toys filled playrooms, there was a simple wooden construction set that encouraged kids to dream big. Tinkertoy arrived in 1914 and quickly became one of the most

When video games like Pong began lighting up bars, basements, and rec rooms in the 1970s, the toy industry felt the tremors. Electronics were no longer the domain of hobbyists and engineers; they were becoming

In the mid-1980s, when board games were branching into three-dimensional designs and Halloween-themed fun was creeping into toy aisles, Ghost Castle emerged as a standout. Released by MB Games in 1985, Ghost Castle was more

In the wild and weird landscape of 1970s toy culture, where slime, monsters, and DIY kits reigned supreme, few products captured the spooky spirit of the era quite like the Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit.

At some point, anyone who had a stuffed animal wished that it could talk. Kids look upon these toys as friends and companions, so it’s only natural for them to wish they could come to

There was never enough Simon to go around. This was one of those toys that could languish alone in the corner of a kid’s room, in desperate need of a battery or a good dusting-off,

There are a variety of things a person can dream about while he or she is putting transmissions together, one after the other, day after day, on a Cincinnati car factory assembly line. If it