When I was a kid, in the 1980's, I entered a toy store contest to 'invent' a new villain character for the He-Man cartoon,' Curl said. 'I mocked-up a 'Lizard Man', entered it , and won.

We were doing our daily harvest of YouTube for fresh hacks when we stumbled on a video that eventually led us to this conversion of a 1980s Armatron ... Shack Armatron toy. Expecting a mess ...

Toyland, toyland, little girl and boy land, while you dwell within it you are ever happy there,” so says the famous lines from Victor Herbert’s children’s operetta “Babes in Toyland.” ...

A designer is auctioning off a collection reflecting his decades of work creating and managing "iconic" toys. Bob Brechin was chief designer at Palitoy between the 1960s and 1980s and played a ...

Then in the 1960s, toys made from plastic, like dolls, building blocks and cars, became popular. By the 1980s, there we many more toys to play with, including figures based on favourite films and ...