The business of toys is one of endless reincarnation. Barbie will always totter on slender legs and permanently arched heels. Transformers will always be more than meets the eye. Monopoly will always teach families the inherent conflict in the landlord / tenant relationship. But times change. In 2014, you can print Instagram photos for that Monopoly board, and Mattel is building new dolls whose torsos light up to express emotions...

Ghostbusters will make its Lego debut in early June. Fans will have the chance to build brick versions of Ecto-1, the ghost-fighting team's classic vehicle, and play with minifigure versions of Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore.

Nathan Sawaya was a corporate lawyer. Now he blows minds on a daily basis with his massive sculptures created entirely of Lego bricks. Here’s his wild story.

Lego today: Crushing the toy industry under its interlocking feet, having overtaken Mattel and Hasbro as the most profitable toymaker in the world. That's partially due to licensing deals, which, starting in 1999, added icons like Darth Vader and Batman to the mix.

Barbie's unrealistic proportions are a standard talking point around body image. For the first time Barbie's lead designer fires back.

This is my Warlock boomerang. Handcrafted and ready to fly from some of the best finish birch on the market. I make them all with 10 ply 5mm birch. Hope you like it

FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862, making it the oldest toy retailer in the US. Now, thanks to the Internet Archive, a brochure published in 1911 by the company's New York store — the inspiration for Home Alone 2's Duncan's Toy Chest — has been digitized.

"Plus-size" models (or any models above the super-skinny norm, for that matter) serve a dual purpose: They showcase plus-size clothing for a growing market... and they also provide women with a more diverse range of bodies to look up to. So if we have plus-size women modeling clothes, why not have plus-size Barbies? That's the question posed recently by Plus-Size-Modeling.com on Facebook, when the group posted an illustration of a plus-size Barbie-like doll

Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday.

PowerUp 3.0, a device that lets you control paper airplanes with a smartphone app, is becoming the must-have new toy.

A look back at some of the most popular holiday toys in the past 50 years.

These “confiscation cabinets,” assembled by veteran teacher and artist Guy Tarrant, are an unusual archive: toys taken from London schoolchildren in 150 different schools, over thirty years.

Send mail to kids' toys from your phone. Our toys will speak them back in their funny voice, or yours. Kids can reply too!

The Walking Dead edition of the Monopoly board game by Hasbro has been unleashed. This time you’ll want to get sent to jail for safety. It is available to purchase online from ThinkGeek.

McDonalds is considering installing 3D printers in its stores to produce the pocket-sized toys which are a key part of their Happy Meals.

Retailers are starting to gear up to sell the latest generation of Christmas toys, but some campaigners are advocating a change in attitude. Do some Western children have too many toys, asks Joanne Furniss.

Before Pez settled on its iconic flip top dispenser, they experimented with different ways to put candy in kids’ mouths, including designs shaped like pistols. Tykes in the 1950s would load a sheath of strawberry flavored bricks into the gun’s magazine like bullets, put the barrel in their mouth, and pull the trigger to enjoy a sugar rush while simulating suicide. Insane, right?

Ann Arbor based Backyard Brains has developed a Kickstarter project, the RoboRoach, that allows one to cut live cockroaches and implant electrodes to control the insect's movements.

Architecture-with-a-capital-A isn’t always regarded as one of the more playful creative fields, but give the pros a good cause and they just might surprise you. London-based developers Cathedral Group enlisted the star-studded talents of 20 top UK architects and firms to make a custom dollhouse for an upcoming auction benefiting Kids, a charity dedicated to disabled kids and their families.

A new book from artist Mike Doyle shows the amazing things you can do with just a couple thousand LEGOs. "Beautiful LEGO" features beautiful, hi-def photos of sculptures built entirely out of the miniature building blocks. From replicas of everyday objects to mini versions of famous monuments, the artwork shown here is sure to amaze.