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They Did It: Hasbro Is Officially Producing Its Largest Star Wars Toy Ever
Star Wars toy collectors have been keeping a close eye on a special crowdfunding project over the past few weeks. It’s by none other than Hasbro and it’s for a giant (two feet long and over a foot high and wide) replica of Jabba the Hutt’s sail barge from Return of the Jedi. The hope was that 5,000 people would pledge $500 to make it—and they did.
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Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus dies days after chain's announced shutdown
Charles P. Lazarus, the World War II veteran who founded Toys R Us, has died at age 94, a week after the iconic chain he started six decades ago announced it will shut down its stores across the United States. Toys R Us confirmed Lazarus' death in a statement Thursday.
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The LEGO® Story
As The LEGO Group celebrates its 80th Birthday (2012), we take a look back at its history with this short animated film.
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Why poop toys for kids are flying off the shelves
This year’s forecast for the toy industry is in the toilet — literally. A new game called “Pull My Finger” — in which players compete to pull a purple monkey’s finger without releasing a noisy fart…
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Man Redefines Horror By Building a Singing Furby Organ
As if the fear of a looming nuclear war wasn’t enough, Sam Battle, the hacker-musician behind the YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer, hacked together 44 Furby toys to build the world’s first (and hopefully last) singing Furby organ, introducing a whole new element to your nightmares.
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Ancient kids’ toys have been hiding in the archaeological record
Some unusual finds from thousands of years ago are actually toys and children’s attempts at mimicking adult craftwork.
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Magical new 4,500 year old finds add to 'oldest toy collection in the world'
An ancient doll and a mythical animal were buried with a child from the Okunev culture in the Bronze Age.
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2,000-year-old toys discovered inside children's tombs in Turkey's Çanakkale
2,000-year-old ancient toys from the Hellenistic Period have been discovered inside tombs belonging to children in the ancient seaport city of Parion
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Toys ‘R’ Us Files for Bankruptcy, Crippled by Competition and Debt
The toy store chain will get $3 billion in financing to continue paying employees and suppliers as it deals with Chapter 11.
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21 Lego artists designing wonders.
LEGO-centric artists who are redefining a new era of creative artwork:
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New Millennium Falcon is Lego’s biggest set ever
And Luke said it was a piece of junk
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The Rise of the Fidget Spinner and the Fall of the Well-Managed Fad
Earlier this year, when Christine Osborne first realized that fidget spinners — those small devices that have, seemingly overnight, colonized playgrounds and classrooms — were going to become a huge hit, she felt a deep anxiety. This was surprising, because Osborne owns multiple toy stores in South Carolina. Twenty years ago, she would have greeted a new fad like fidget spinners with glee.
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FBI Issues Warning: Are Your Children's Toys Spying On You?
Parents have been urged to steer clear of “spy toys” designed to snoop on innocent kids’ lives in terrifying detail. The FBI has issued an urgent notice concerning toys that are packed full of sensors, cameras and microphones to record a child’s words and GPS locators to track their whereabouts. “Smart toys and entertainment devices for children are increasingly incorporating technologies that learn and tailor their behaviors based on user interactions,” it wrote in a statement.
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Evolution of the LEGO logo
The red, white, yellow, and black LEGO logo is synonymous with one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers, but it didn’t always look so familiar.
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How I Built an AI to Sort 2 Tons of Lego Pieces
A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego
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The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial
For decades, Barbie’s boy achieved icon status by being a basic, buff, blue-eyed bro. But as Caity Weaver discovered, he’s a whole new man. (Well, men.)
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German officials confiscate 35 tons of fidget spinners and will crush them out of existence
It sounds like a dream come true for teachers, coaches, parents or anyone else who has had to deal with distracted kids playing with this year’s must-have toy, the fidget spinner. Frankfurt airport customs authorities said Friday they confiscated 35 metric tons of the tiny twirling gadgets in May alone and plan on crushing them out of existence.
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How Lego clicked: the brand that reinvented itself | Johnny Davis
The revival of Lego has been hailed as the greatest turnaround in corporate history, ousting Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand. Johnny Davis reports
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From controversy to empowerment: the history of black dolls
A landmark collection of black dolls showcases troubling stereotypes but also reveals how children have seen themselves reflected in the toys they played with
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Parents In Germany Face $26,500 Fine If They Don’t Destroy Controversial ‘My Friend Cayla’ Dolls
After researchers found that My Friend Cayla dolls were recording users’ and sending this information out to a third party specializing in voice-recognition for police and military forces, officials in Germany told parents to get rid of the toys. In case families didn’t take that request seriously, the country’s telecommunications regulator has since clarified that parents who don’t destroy their Cayla dolls could face more than $25,000 in fines.
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