"Toys" Blogs & Blog Posts

Here's a new interview with 102-year-old toy inventor Eddy Goldfarb. He's easily my favorite toy designer (for inventing the Mattel Vac•U•Form), but maybe you have a different favorite classic toy? Eddie also invented wind-up Chattering Teeth, Ba...

After a bump up in sales to families at home during COVID times, toys and games are now flat or even slightly own. The February issue of the toy industry's trade rag The Toy Book shows the latest trends as toy makers look ahead with their new product...

The Wheel of Features is a retro toy that can make over 10,000 silly faces. In the days before kids were glued to screens, mixing and matching facial features on a paper wheel was enthralling to many. Just spin the mouth, nose, eye sections of the wh...

Artist Tee Ken Ng created awesome zoetrope automata. This sculpture becomes animated when rotated, making a little wooden person look like they're walking around.  Atlas Obscura: "By using a Geneva wheel the zoetrope can be rotated in steps (frame...

The headlines say "$30 million worth of Funko Pops are headed to the landfill," but isn't the point that they are in fact worth nothing, which is why they're off to the landfill? Funko's stock "fell off a cliff" after revealing the news in its latest...

BrokeDeck creation makes awesome robots and gadgets out of recycled skateboard bits. I love watching these fighting robot toys in action. They're beautifully constructed. The point of this particular game is to pop your opponents balloon-head before...

Recently, Netflix announced that Cobra Kai, the absurdly popular Karate Kid spin-off series, would be coming to a close. Although it's hard to imagine — given the series' insane success — the idea of a Karate Kid television show that follows...