Toys

This is a timelapse video of the process involved in taking the "Success Kid" meme and turning it into a tiny sandstone statue. Don't you want a tiny "success kid" you can keep in your pocket like a lucky rabbit foot?

Toys in the '70s sure were awesome, but let's face it -- they weren't always well-thought-out. In that spirit, we present 'Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces,' a large plastic doll that surely qualifies as one of the most disturbing toys of all time. If you owned one, you have our sympathy.

G.I Joe has been selected the best toy of the last century, according to the people who voted online at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis’s webpage. The poll, which ranked the best toys for the last 100 years, was set up by staff at this fun museum in order to see which childhood plaything would come out on top.

It's pretty obvious what this guy likes to do with his spare time. This enormous K'Nex ball machine has over 41,000 pieces, 21 different paths, 450 feet of track, eight motors, five lifts, and a computer-controlled crane. It's like watching the world's most elaborate game of Mousetrap...

Peter Dragos, a native of Detroit, Michigan, gets a lot of strange looks from carnival barkers when he walks down the midway. That's because he's a natural at carnival games. In fact, he regularly has to bring plastic bags and shopping carts with him to carry home all of the stuffed toys and trinkets he wins.

We're going to be blunt with you: the Woody you've grown to love over the years since the first 'Toy Story' movie isn't all that you see on the screen. There's more to him. The dude has a secret lifestyle which this creative photographer has brought out.

To survive war, you've got to become war. As this video shows, it also helps if you're tiny and made of hard plastic!

You might think that in zero gravity a yo-yo would be a totally worthless toy. Thanks to astronaut Don Pettit, currently orbiting Earth in the Internatinal Space Station, we get to see why it's actually a hundred times more fun.

The Furby is coming back. All the rage in 1998, toy maker Hasbro promises the new version of the animatronic furball is even better than before.

Sometimes we think our favorite celebrities only exist on this planet for our own amusement. In fact, many of them do have lives away from the limelight. When they’re not acting, singing, dancing or just being fabulously rich and famous, some of your favorite stars take part in some pretty interesting extracurricular activities. Here...

If you can't afford to buy the village where 'The Hunger Games' was filmed, here's a piece of memorabilia that's far more affordable. Mattel, the makers of Barbie, has unveiled a collector's edition doll of Katniss, the franchise's lead protagonist.

Last week, Mitt Romney's campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, likened his candidate's plan to retool and change message once he secured the GOP nomination to the classic toy the Etch-A-Sketch. "You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again," Fehrnstrom said during the now notorious CNN interview. While changing courses for a general election is pretty standard practice, it's not

Given the massive success of 'The Hunger Games' film adaptation -- it raked in $155 million over the weekend, making it the third biggest opening of all time -- internet parodies are already starting to stack up. But perhaps the funniest of all is a recreation of the film starring adorable Beanie Babies. Remember those?

Imagine all your favorite childhood memories combined into one awesome toy. That's exactly what LEGO fan Julius von Brunk did when he created the 'Domaster & Tetrawing' - an amalgamation of the Nintendo Game Boy, the game 'Tetris' and Transformers - that is actually a transforming "Nintendobot." Check out how the Tetris cartridge transforms into the 'Tetrawing' robot below. It'll put

In this clever video by Tom Jenkins, Google Maps is used to free a toy car from the desk top and take it on a road trip across the country. Check out the innovative short below.