Classic Toys

Push The Yogi, Surpie... For all you Surpies who like the idea of yoga but don’t want to do it yourself, your ship has come in! We have a 6" tall, all-wooden marionette push puppet that’s hinged at all the major joints, which means it’s...

Our Silliest Toy Ever... And we say that with a history of silly that’s virtually unmatched. You slip on this pair of lens-less glasses with the tiny bucket and ball on a string attached, and try, while looking like a demented chipmunk, to swing...

Classic Rock, Not Ballerinas... We love to crank the classic rock—no matter how loud or quiet. That’s why we love these classic, hand-crank music boxes from Kikkerland®, a brand that rocks, in our opinion. These boxes (actually steel...

This Toy Slinks Down Steps...It's a magical 2-1/2" dia, radial, spiral-ish, plastic, rainbow-design, stair-walking toy that most definitely does not make the classic, zippy, jangly, metal slinkish sounds you may or may not have experienced in another toy...

Remember Memory? We had something really clever to say about this Memory Maze electronic brain teaser, but in all the commotion, we forgot. To keep our memory sharp, we should probably do more brain teaser exercises, like this 2-1/2” x 2-1/2”...

No Haircut, Just A Comb... You can’t cut your hair, or anything, with this switchblade-like device because when the “blade” flips out, West Side Story-like, it’s actually a comb. Measures 9” overall when the comb is out,...

The Science of Exercise... Coolest science exercise toy ever! A (blue) ball is mounted on an axle inside of a (2-3/4") transparent sphere. Start the inner ball whirling with the included string (getting a great laugh out of the poorly translated...

Metalpecker... Behold our version of the gravity-fed sliding woodpecker. Ours is a 1-3/4" standard black woodpecker, not counting his cute red plume, slowly pecking his way down a 16-1/2" tall metal rod. His super-rapid, lifelike pecking action is...

Hialeah At Home... Ten furlongs are condensed to (7) inches, with very small horses, in the Desktop Derby, a 6-horse straight track that lets you win money while you teach the children the evils of pari-mutuel betting. The electric track pulsates and...

Little Walter Would Approve... He was born Marion Walter Jacobs, and in his sweet home Chicago he changed the way the harmonica was played. They called him Little Walter, and his blues harps were standard size, but oh, how he would have loved this Little...

A Better Way To Fidget... This fidget toy doesn’t spin, and that’s the appeal. It’s a Magnetic Magic Cube that measures 2-1/2” on all sides, it being a cube and all. But it’s changeable since it’s made up of lots of...

Sea Monkeys, Do Monkeys... Yes, we have The Amazing Live Sea Monkey® aquarium kit, just like the ones from the comic books. The (9) piece ocean zoo includes brine shrimp eggs, growth food, water purifier, plus an official plastic feeding spoon,...

This wacky, green-ish 20" long glow-in-the-dark rubber chicken is permanently in the missile position with an open mouth, as if he or she is rocketing through space and loving it. The body is somewhere in the neighborhood of chartreuse, and the feet,...

Gyroscope... 2" flywheel in a well-made metal frame. The trick is the same as it has been for 100 years. Wind the string through the spindle, pull it firmly to set the flywheel spinning, and perform effortless balancing magic on pencil tips, string...

Dominoes For Those On The Go... Say yes to these dominoes. You may need a magnifying glass to read the instructions on the back of the wooden box, but the bones themselves, the actual dominoes, are as easy to read as a large-print novel. Box measures...

Feeling A Little Cranky? Here's a little music box to crank. These are really cute, with a very nice sound, and they're in clear acrylic cases so you, or impressionable youngsters, can watch them work. They measure 2-1/4"x 2" x 1-1/4" with a 7/8" crank...

Poof-You’re A Magician! You can’t start fooling people too early. This box of tricks is for budding magicians, and includes the props and instructions for (77) tricks. Includes a magic wand, without which you can’t be a magician, plus...

Keep Your Ants Down On The Farm... A Classic 6" x 8-1/2" x 3/8" Ant Farm. The ants will live between two parallel sheets of clear plastic and you will be able to watch them build their tunnels and chambers. Complete with sand and instruction booklet on...

Tiny Laser Guns... When someone asks you to bring out the big guns, leave these in the drawer. Called the World’s Smallest Laser Guns, these (2) space blaster-looking guns have white bodies and either blue or red highlights. They’re not...

Throwin’ Shadows... With the help of these (12) beautifully illustrated instructional cards from the 1859 bestselling book Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill, you’ll amuse and amaze your friends with your newfound hand-puppet artistry. The walls...

Shut Your Box! This is a travel-sized version of that classic wooden game of skill and lucky dice commonly known as Shut The Box. Measures 5-1/4" x 3-1/4" x 1"—perfect for road trips, airplanes and campers—with hinged wooden tiles numbered on...

Original Slinky Does anyone really need to be told what a Slinky® is?? Okay, it is a very slack spring, 2-7/8" dia x 2-1/2" long, compressed. It will stretch out to about 5 or 6 feet long without deforming. That's the boring part. The interesting...

Drinking Bird... You're buying the drinks and this wacky, yet debonair, bird with a top hat and plastic base (7" tall OA) can't get his fill of water. Get him started, and he dips his beak into your glass repeatedly. How? Fluid inside his glass body...

New Gen X Fun... Gen Xers will remember hours of fun spent with the original Like-Brite before the Millennials ruined everything. Well, it’s back and like the cereals you used to eat, it’s New and Improved, with LEDs behind the 8-3/4” x...

Your Chicken! Actually, your chickens, plural, since our each is multiples of lovely, plucked and naked chickens in full chicken color. And unlike the real thing, these are small enough to carry in your pocket, because you never know. In molded plastic,...

No Joke! Silly Putty is Back! The real deal. 2-1/2" long red egg-shaped container with a blob of Silly PuttyTM inside. Does anyone need me to explain all the fun you'll have with Silly Putty? I thought not. Just get some today!

Boneless Chickens... You may well have wondered where the boneless chicken breasts in your local supermarket come from. The answer is from boneless chickens. And we have some life sized rubber models of the birds to prove it. Modeled from life, they are...

Toy Train In A Tin Can More fun than a canned ham, this flip-top storage tin has a train set inside, with a plastic steam engine, tender, boxcar and caboose, as well as a 12-piece track that forms a 10" x 22" oval. Tin and train car colors may vary. You...

A Week's Worth Of Whoopee A gallimaufry of gags, the prankster's pantheon. Our seven-day selection of sophomoric stupidity includes a joy buzzer, a fake ketchup spill that is perfect for a laptop or tablet, wrapped candy thats more bug than treat, a pack...

Fidget With The Sizes Here’s a fidget toy you can fidget with while you’re fidgeting! This bright, multi-colored ring expands and retracts, from 5" dia to just under 10”, and works well as a flying disc or halo-like headpiece. Its...

No—You’re The One! We’re talking to you, rubber ducky, and all your friends, too. These assorted rubber duckies measure 2-1/4" dia x 1-3/4" tall, and come in a variety of themes, including sports (basketball, baseball, soccer and...

Need A Hand? Or Five? They're supposed to be finger puppets, but they could be hands in search of a mini mannequin. Wherever they came from, they're 2-5/8" long in a variety of lighter and darker toned flexible rubber, and remarkably life-like in a...

3-D Mirascope... You've seen everybody's favorite desk toy. The one that makes you swear you can pick up the coin that's right inside it. Too bad it's really a hologram you're looking at! Now you can own this petite version of the popular "illusion" toy...

Yo! Yo-Yo-Yo! These classic wooden yo-yos are 2-1/8" dia x 1-3/8" high. Sides have a painted circle with multiple, different-colored rings around it. Nice action, with a pre-tied finger loop in the string, and you can’t get much more old-school-toy...

Smart Enough To Open The Box? Want to prove how smart you are or go batty trying? We’re still going batty trying. Join us—it’s fun! We’ll send you (1) of our (4) wooden Mysterious Puzzle Boxes, 6" x 2" x 2-5/8," rated as either...

It’s Cribbage, Not Cabbage... You know what that means? This game doesn’t stink! And that’s why it’s so great for traveling, along with the fact that the included instructions, deck of cards and folding wooden score board with...

An Alien in the Hand is Worth Two... These 2-3/4" Alien puppets are modeled after real alien hands. No Joke. They even glow in the dark just like real aliens. Your get a set of (4), one for each finger on one hand. Buy two for all your fingers! (Sorry...

A S.T.E.M. Of A Puzzle... This excellent STEM Explorers™ Geomakers™ 3D building challenge kit/puzzle from Learning Resources® reminds us of tinkerer’s toys from days past. Allows kids to connect (58) pieces in many configurations,...

You Can’t Eat These Gyros... We love when science and play come together, and this precision gyroscope is our latest obsession in that department. Constructed mainly out of durable plastic with rubberized tips, this Cyclone Gyroscope® was...

Stick Your Finger In One Of These Nothing says compact fun like rubber finger puppets. We recommend these for adding a touch of whimsy to parental or grandparental reading of bedtime stories. You pick a quartet of rubber cats or squirrels, in four...