toys

Earlier this week Time magazine asked toy historians what the most influential toys are of all time.

A lot of YouTube celebrities start making hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time they're 18 or 19. But here's an even MORE extreme example of how you can hit it big super early being a YouTuber.

Next month the National Toy Hall of Fame will be inducting two new toys. There are 12 nominees, but I wonder why some of these toys aren't all ready in the Hall of Fame?

We've all heard the saying that the only difference between boys and men is that their toys get bigger. Well, this has got to be one of the coolest toys ever!

Kid's these days are smart. Sometimes to smart, and too cute, for their own good. This little girl, for example, bargains or more correctly 'extorts' her dad to get the toy she so badly wants.

Barbie has some monster-sized competition.

Oh, the good old days! When kids could be kids and play with dangerous toys!

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.

Ever since it was introduced in 1963, the Easy-Bake Oven has been marketed exclusively to girls, leaving aspiring boy chefs out in the cold. But that's about to change thanks to a campaign led by a teen girl on behalf of her four-year-old brother, who loves to cook.

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.

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.”

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.