Toy Fair, a staggeringly large collection of playtime gadgets for kiddos and immature adults, has come to an end.…
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Barbie, at once a gender pioneer and enabler of countless anorexic, has found her newest role: human-machine…
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Will we ever feel too old to love Nerf guns? No, I doubt it. What about Super Soakers? Oh hush, of course not.…
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You might think you can explain where Colombia-based Aracataca got these giant pens, pencils, crayons, and markers…
Toy Fair is full of lame jigsaw puzzles, toy horses, and other antique things nobody cares about anymore. But!…
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Boo, an animal so impossibly cute as to make physicists question our understanding of the cosmos, is now available…
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I am completely jealous that Micaël Reynaud still has all the toys he grew up with. Seriously! Watch this video…
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The Max Force Shadow Hawk (deep breath) 100 is a sort of hybrid between Nerf and Super Soaker, flinging spitball-ish…
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It's lacking the staples of Tiny Dancer, Don't Stop Believin', and Hollaback Girl (am I right?), but if you're…
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I've noticed an increasing number of can't-be-bothered parents handing over an iPhone or iPad to their screaming…
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If you're already in the habit of slapping and poking your friends (IRL, not Facebook), you might as well get some…
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When last we saw Fijit, it was part of a giant swarm of its cutesy-robo prototype sisters, unsettlingly singing…
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Yes, totally, I would love to wear one of those crazy robo-suits, like the HULC exoskeleton, that basically turns…
Jakks Pacific's SpyNet line of toys, comprising functioning audio bugs, night vision googles, and video-recording…
Printers, I think we can agree with some relief, are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Still, plenty of people…
Hot wheel sets are a staple of many a childhood, but they're also a staple of creating a huge sprawling mess that…
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One weird thing about Toy Fair is all of the stringent gender norms that are pushed in marketing-speak. Trucks are…
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Playing with toys alone is pretty fun I guess, but any kind of amusement is at its most amusing when you're…
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Shoving your iPhone at your screaming kid in the backseat is kinda lowest common denominator parenting. But once you…
Drop a pack of Mentos in a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke and you get yourself a nice soda geyser. It's fun! It's also…