On a cold, drizzly morning last October, a school teacher and a small group of parents and kids waited beside the train tracks in Mapleton, an unincorporated community of about 500 people just east of ...

The Reading Fire Department hosted its annual Toy Drive Breakfast on Friday at Trooper Thorn’s Irish Beef House. In addition to collecting toys, this year’s drive honored the memory of retired Reading ...

An upscale Connecticut town is finally getting the old-fashioned style toy store residents have been craving. The owners are a surprising trio who will definitely keep their day jobs, but also stay ...

AI-powered toys for young children are flooding online marketplaces, promising to provide young minds with a never-ending supply of bedtime stories and companionship around the clock. But anybody ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

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As told in Tarpley Hitt’s rollicking “Barbieland,” the rise of America’s doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie. By Amanda Hess Amanda Hess is a critic at large for the ...

In Ireland, The Late Late Toy Show on RTÉ is the unofficial kickoff ot the Christmas season - and one of the biggest television events of the year. Not in Ireland? Not to worry! You can watch Toy Show ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...

Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear going back all the way to 1995’s Toy Story, took to social media over the weekend to open up about progress on the sequel. Allen, who has voiced the character ...