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+28 +1Bastian Schweinsteiger to sue toy company over Nazi lookalike figurine
The captain of Germany's national football team, Bastian Schweinsteiger, is pursuing legal action against a Hong Kong-based toy company, his management team confirmed on Thursday. The suit alleges that manufacturer DiD is selling Nazi figurines that bear a clear resemblance to the Manchester United midfielder. The figure, sold as "WWII Army Supply Duty," has a steel helmet, a "Wehrmacht" uniform complete with swastika insignia and a name - Bastian.
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+18 +1Ooh! I want one of these!
2015 HYPER-RACING 1500w 48v Electric Scooter (Red) W/Street Tires
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+20 +1Star Wars toys revealed in Times Square for Force Friday
We went looking for Star Wars toys at the crack of Force Friday, and boy, did we find them.
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+20 +1Force Friday: 5 toys my inner-geek wants now
From a Pottery Barn Millennium Falcon bed to a working BB-8 patrol droid, the holiday season has come early for 'Star Wars' fans.
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+1 +1Fox News anchor demands $5m after toy hamster was named after her
Harris Faulkner, pictured, has launched a lawsuit against Hasbro after discovering a hamster toy with her name, pictured, which she claims even bears a physical resemblance to her.
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+26 +1Target will stop separating toys and bedding into girls’ and boys’ sections
After a photo of the gender-based aisle organization went viral, the mega-retailer is making a move to please its customers. But some are just rolling their eyes.
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+17 +1The Chemicals in a Plastic Doll
A mother’s difficult quest to discover what her children's playthings are made of—and whether they are safe and environmentally friendly. By Jamie Passaro.
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+14 +1Photos From Children Around the World with Their Most Prized Possessions
Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti's project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, “at their age, they are pretty all much the same; they just want to play.”
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+13 +1Honest Trailers - Toy Story (feat. Will Sasso)
Pixar's latest film Inside Out is about to hit theaters, so it's time to relive the very FIRST Pixar film ever - Toy Story!
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+19 +2Legoizer Turns Any Image Into A Lego Kit
In the future, everything will be made of Lego if the Legoizer has anything to say about it. This system, really a piece of pixelation software, turns images into Lego creations by breaking them into block-sized chunks and supplying a shopping list and list of instructions. For example, the image above takes 34 rows of Lego to build and requires a few hundred pieces of various colors, including lots of white pieces.
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+14 +2Bazinga! Lego announces 'Big Bang Theory' set
'The Big Bang Theory' is getting its very own Lego set.
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+23 +2A Short History of Unnecessarily Terrifying Toy Patents
Google does a lot. Search, email, translation, browsers, phones, chat, docs and much, much more. And if its most recently published patent application is any indication, it’s thinking about getting in on the high-tech, creepy toy game. Said patent is for a connected “anthropomorphic device” that will respond to “social cues” to control media devices in the home, likely with the intention of becoming an integral part of the Internet of Things.
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+16 +2Rubik's Cube - Making The World's Most Popular Puzzle
Invented by a Hungarian architect, the Rubik's Cube has captivated the world for the past 40 years. This is the story of how it was created.
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+10 +2Father and daughter recreated Jurassic Park with $100,000 worth of Lego
It's official: this video is the most adorable way to relive the best moments from the original Jurassic Park. A father and his young daughter — along with the help of a few very talented friends —...
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+18 +1These People Spend Thousands of Dollars Buying 'Haunted Dolls' from eBay
The purportedly possessed children's toys can sell for as little as $45 and for more than $1,500.
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+1 +1New Barbie Sends Kids' Private Thoughts To The Cloud
You can brush her hair, surveillance everywhere
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+1 +1'Eavesdropping' new Barbie has parents group worried
Parents who pick up a new “Hello Barbie” for their kids could be bidding "adieu" to their privacy -- at least that's what a U.S.-based children’s advocacy group is warning. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has launched a petition calling on the Mattel toy company to dump its plans to begin selling the "Hello Barbie" in the fall. It says it doesn't like the idea that the "creepy" doll will be able to "eavesdrop" on kids by listening and recording their conversations.
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+18 +1Child advocates: Halt production of ‘creepy’ interactive Barbie doll
Child advocates want toymaker Mattel to pull the plug on a new interactive Barbie doll that records children’s voices and uploads them to a cloud server.
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+18 +1Jealousy, Greed, and Soccer Moms: Exploring the 'Great Beanie Baby Bubble' of the 90s
Somewhere in your parents' basement, there's a plastic Rubbermaid bin filled with worthless plush toys that once promised riches. The Beanie Baby frenzy of the 90s spread from suburban Chicago across the United States, creating a mass speculative bubble, with sales reaching $1 billion at their peak. Ty Warner, creator of the Beanie Baby, was an "obsessive" perfectionist, slaving over the minute details of each toy even after they had gone to market.
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+17 +1Lego not just for kids anymore: After-hours parties and speed-building competitions cater to toy's older fans
Crossing back into Canada from the U.S. with a car full of nondescript boxes, Simon Liu, an IT professional from Toronto, was curtly told to proceed to secondary inspection. As four border officers closed in on him, he uttered a few words of explanation, but along one of the busiest cross-border shopping corridors in the country at Niagara Falls, inspectors weren’t buying his farfetched story; they wanted to take a look for themselves.
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