Squeeze Play: 9 Weird & Bizarre Stress Relief Balls
Life's stressful enough without our stress relief balls freaking us out yet the more we squeeze these creepy stress aids, the more anxious we get. Caomaru means "round face" in Japanese, ...
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Toy Boxed: 10 Closed & Abandoned Toys R Us Stores
It took 60 years for Toys 'R' Us to rise to a Category Killer corporation... and fall victim to bankruptcy when economics told it to put the toys away. Toys 'R' Us can trace its roots back ...
Playful Kirigami: Touch-Activated Paper Animals Pop into Action
Acting out scenes from storybooks or animating real activities, these deceptively simple-looking, folded-paper toys leap, bounce, roll and hatch into action when played with. Japanese ...
Huge Color-Coded ‘LEGO House’ Designed by BIG Now Open in Denmark
Designed by architects from BIG, the new LEGO House is itself huge: a 130,000-square-foot 'experience center' welcoming people of all ages to play with and appreciate this ubiquitous ...
Lego’s Largest and Most Expensive Kit Ever is an $800 Millennium Falcon
You don’t get a sense of just how large and complex Lego’s latest kit really is until you see it someone’s arms, or taking up the entire table surface in front of them. A gift for true ...
Play On, LEGO Layer: 14 Complex & Creative Toy Brick-Inspired Projects
Play on, LEGO brick layer, 'cause the projects adults are coming up with using these little plastic toy bricks are totally incredible. Some amazing recent creations either made from or inspired ...
LEGO-Compatible Tape Lets You Build Gravity-Defying Inception-Style Models
Are plain old LEGO bricks gonna be ruined for you forever now that you’ve seen this flexible, cuttable, reusable LEGO-compatible adhesive tape? ‘Nimuno Loops’ is a crowdfunded creation that ...
Build-A-Bug: Mini VW Beetle Model Made of LEGO Blocks
Assemble a miniature model of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle with a new kit from LEGO, reproducing the car in minuscule detail from a surfboard-holding roof rack to a four-cylinder air-cooled ...
Mini Modernists: 15 Designer Toys for Young Architecture Fans
Foster an appreciation for fine modernist architecture and design from an early age with Bauhaus dollhouses, Eames block sets, mini Corbusier lounge chairs and urban planning board games. There's ...
Not Your Average Model Train: Self-Propelled Mechanical Toys
There are no batteries or power cords needed to propel this steam train and a series of other mechanical models, which come in kits of laser-cut plywood so you can assemble them yourself. UGEARS ...
