Because of ongoing wars, children became more interested in the vehicles that were used. This led to the manufacture of toy ...

As Americans become more aware of the risks posed by microplastics, one question remains: what about the hidden impact on our pets? The American Veterinary Medical Association reports that 59.8 ...

NEW HOPE, Minn. — If life were fair, children would be spared from the worst battles. But life is not. “He was three years old," Justine Zirbes says, "and he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic ...

He shuffled by them, giving them a glance and a smile. The two plastic toy soldiers stood proudly as they peered out of Sabrina Rohr’s glass kitchen cabinet. Stephen Rohr’s patriotism was given a jolt ...

Yes, there is. Or there was. Santa was Louis Marx, a chubby, cigar-chomping captain of industry who created the Marx toy company, once the largest manufacturer of toys in the world. With his wife, ...

Green Hawk Platoon is an action-packed, multi-player FPS where you fight in the smallest army in the world as you team up with other plastic toy soldiers and wage war against other teams for control ...

Six months after being sold to a new platform company, American Plastic Toys Inc. is closing a plant in Olive Branch, Miss. Scott Campbell, vice president of administration at Orchard Creek Capital ...

My early “trainhood” was 1955 to 1968. I had an uncle who gave me a train the year I was born, and he added to the Lionel fleet on birthdays and Christmas for many years. All the trains were Lionel, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — If you’re heading to the Oceanfront this Memorial Day weekend, you may notice new colorfully decorated wooden boxes filled with beach toys near several beach entrances. It’s a new ...

Marx Toys became a staple of Erie manufacturing not long after its founding by Louis Marx in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Marx had worked for the Ferdinand J. Strauss Company, a toy manufacturer in ...

Did you find Rock'em Sock'em Robots under the tree one Christmas morning back when? Did you race a Big Wheel around the neighborhood before graduating to two wheels? Or maybe you worked at the Erie or ...

Nearly six in ten children (57%) are eager to get their hands on the latest games and toys – but 19% are unaware of how much damage their plastic playthings cause to the environment, research has ...