When Lego announced earlier this year that it would be releasing a series of Simpsons minifigures, most fans of the show (or of Legos) figured they’d just be putting Homer or Apu or Nelson Muntz in a generic brick-based environment, or recreating a scene from the Lego episode of the show, or maybe just sticking them on a keychain.

Model Celso Santebanes is bringing out his own doll, after spending around £30,000 to look like his idol, Ken. The 20-year-old 'model and actor' has so far had four operations on his nose, chin and jaw, silicone implants in his chest and various 'aesthetic interventions'. He even 'behaves like a puppet' to emulate his hero, according to reports. And now he is bringing out his own Celso doll. He posted this picture of the prototype to his Instagram account.

As of last week, Buckyballs are dead. The magnetic toy has been officially recalled following a two-year battle with the government regulators who sought to ban them. Here's how a seemingly wonderful amusement became plaything non grata in the span of just a few short years.

Cube, which can be easily transformed

We love LEGO. You love LEGO. Everyone loves LEGO. But when LEGO's halo effect is being used to sell propaganda to children, especially by an unethical corporation who are busy destroying the natural world our children will inherit, we have to do something.

Playtime is over.

15 Kids Toys What Can Kill You is a list of toys made around the world what has the ability to end your life the toys in this list are banned and not for sale any more. Gaming channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/pnf7

Before Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011, his lingering influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan remained a pressing concern for the CIA. So in 2005, the agency seriously considered a plan that would demonize al Qaeda's leader in the eyes of children everywhere. The plan was to fight bin Laden and his evil ideology with toys.

With Lego Fusion, the toy giant for the first time is mixing its plastic bricks with the virtual world. Think of it as multidimensional SimCity, for kids.

Today, Mattel launched the career of Entrepreneur Barbie, a perfectly coiffed, pink-clad, still impossibly-proportioned doll who is somehow supposed to help fuel the corporate ambition of little girls.

Rejoice, happy-go-lucky and environmentally conscious Coca-Cola-lovers. Thanks to this new "2nd Lives" kit from the brand, you can now transform your Coke into something even more delightful. Is that just an empty soda bottle? Nope, it's a squirt gun. Useless piece of trash?

As Rubik's cube celebrates its 40th birthday with a Google Doodle, Harry Wallop looks back at one of the unlikeliest hits in the toy world

The reclusive Chicago billionaire built an empire on stuffed toys—and now he’s narrowly escaped a prison sentence. For an intensely private billionaire, one who had spent much of his adult life behind an impenetrable wall of plush, January 14 had to have been as agonizing as a bolt-up-in-bed naked-in-the-classroom night terror.

IT Media reports that adult goods company Tenga is releasing a ballsy new product called "Pocket Tenga Wave Line." In short, it's a disposable masturbation sleeve that is bundled with lubrication. There's a sticker on the outside that allows users to put the finished sleeve back into the package and seal it up and throw it away in the most sanitary way possible.

Caught on camera in the "pink aisle" of a U.S. toy store, 5-year-old Riley posed a multibillion-dollar question: "Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different colored stuff?" Her impassioned critique of profit-boosting gendered toy marketing has been viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube. She isn't a lone voice.

Top Christmas toys for 2015 available from fastsellers.com. Check out the new releases, top tech toys for Kids and must have products for 2015.

The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in "Tiny Worlds", a trilogy of micro-shorts with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking.

Sixty-five years ago, deep in the basement of a Billund, Denmark carpentry workshop, Ole Kirk Christiansen conceived Lego; 560 billion pieces later, the company has defined childhood for millions of kids across the globe. But for some, the fun doesn’t stop at puberty. Adult fans of Lego -- or AFOL (pronounced “awful”) -- is a small but passionate confederacy of builders who refuse to believe Lego is just for kids.

How to make a mini bow and arrow out of household items (lolly pop popsicle stick, dental floss and a cotton bud q-tip). Great fun craft idea for kids and childrens parties. Also shows how to make flaming arrows not suitable for children.

It does one thing, but does it beautifully. And that's how the Danish company unseated Mattel to become No. 1.