Movers, Shakers & Growers

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 shapes, colors and...

Halloween's not complete without a pumpkin race! These wind-up walking pumpkins are the perfect way to add some spooky fun to your party. Just wind them up and watch them waddle their way across the finish line. It's a hilarious and festive activity...

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 add a "AA" battery and...

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 part is that it...

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, 4-1/2” when folded...

Yo, you might look at this classic yo-yo, which measures a little over 2" dia and think, yeah, it’s a classic yo-yo—nothing special. But then you might look further and notice that it lights up! Move over, kid—let an old pro show you...

Introducing the Aeromax 2000. This update of the classic parachute toy has mesh under the canopy instead of lines, so it's tangle-free. Big 20" chute floats the little 3-1/2" tall trooper gently to the ground. In assorted colors, which we'll pick because...

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 strangely compelling...

Meet mini floppy! (AKA wacky waver) You know floppy. You see his larger family members all over the place, promoting sales and events of all kinds. Floppy measures a mini 12" tall, has a battery operated fan in the base, and operates on a single 9-volt...

Rattlebacks are plastic semi-elliptical shapes, 3-7/8" long, that illustrate Newton's laws of motion, while mystifying kids. Set them down (the rattlebacks, not the kids) and their offset center of gravity makes them spin. Spin them in one direction and...

From France comes this fun mechanical plastic bird that really flies by flapping its wings. Officially known as an ornithopter, it's humbly called Tim by it's friends. It is about 8" long and has a wingspan of 16" tip to tip. Snap the wings in place,...

THE American classic novelty item (even ahead of the whoopee cushion and rubber vomit, we think) is a set of chattering choppers. Auto-dentures. Invented by Eddy Goldfarb in 1949, a man who made the Toy Industry Hall of Fame ahead of Milton Bradley,...

Spin the ribbed 7" handle of this hand-powered prop between your palms, and watch it take off. (If it lands instead of flying off into the wild blue yonder, reverse the spin!) Neon handle, bright, metallic-flaked 8" propeller, and a lift so high we...

Freeze—it’s a money gun! This “gun” looks more like the one the fuzz uses to check your speed than the one they keep in their holsters. In metallic gold (what else?) with the words “Money Gun” on the side, it spits out...

We don’t know where to start with this fidget spinner that’s also an ultra-bright LED flashlight and a laser pointer! We think we’ll just start with the spinner feature and think about the other things one-by-one. That’s what...

Shoot one of these little plastic arrow-helicopter-rotor gismos straight up with the included rubber band launcher and watch it soar as far as 300 feet! A fun outdoor toy that grows in sophistication as you learn how to adjust the arrowcopter for wind...

We love these classic wooden toys for their simplicity and deceptively life-like motion. Sticks measure 13” long with a slider handle in the middle and a 4” tall painted figurine with moveable arms and legs on top. Push the slider up, and the...

Even if you're not a female flamingo yourself, you can still hatch an adorable hot pink flamingo. You’ll get an equally hot pink, 4-1/4" egg, which you immerse in water and wait a couple-three days while it hatches and grows to 8”+ tall. But...

AKA hand boiler. An exotic bit of hand blown glass with a bulb at top and bottom connected by some zippy tubing that spirals, loops, and/or jogs. In the closed system is some colored liquid (methylene chloride) that is very light. Hold the lower bulb in...

Go fly a kite. We highly recommend this rainbow-colored nylon parafoil version, measures 20" x 23" at its widest with a 14-foot tail (over three times longer than a tiger's) on a spindle with a couple hundred feet of string. Includes a carrying pouch,...

If Werner Von Braun had used these, Londonwould have just gotten wet. Have somegood clean fun with this Hydrotech"Aquazone" rocket set. You get (2) 5-3/4" tall water rockets and (1) 8-3/4" rocket, plus (2) filling funnelsand a piston pump for power...

It's the classic Spirograph®, which is a lot of intricate round mandala-like designs floating around out there. Celebrate with one of our spirographic specials. You pick: the Travel Spirograph® in a flip-lid case with a 2-3/8" ID ring in the lid...

While everyone seems to have lost a few, American Science & Surplus has a literal surplus of them! Whether you need new ones for a game, can't craft without them or just like something shiny, we've got an amazing deal for you. You'll receive a clear,...

We think it’s a missed opportunity to not name a Soaring Unicorn, so we call ours Eunice. The mythical creature measures approx 3” x 3” and is attached to a tangle-free rainbow parachute that allows her to float down gently, magically,...

Hold the bottom onion-shaped bulb of this 4" glass toy in your hand and watch the liquid (green, red, blue or purple, we'll pick) magically bubble up into the top chamber and keep on bubbling like the dickens, as your grandmother used to say. The magic...

Get these vehicles that go, and go get some fun. We have (2) deliciously colorful plastic vehicles—(1) if by land and (1) if by sea, and a kid you love with love them. You pick: the 4” x 4-1/2” press-and-go Carrot Car, orange with a...

Soldiers always get stretched thin, but they got nothing on this guy, who starts off 6” tall and can stretch to more than 2 feet! That’s right, this half-foot-long brown rubber soldier, filled with sand for a satisfying squeeze, more than...

Great balls of air! The mighty AIRZOOKA is back--and as cool as ever! Looking like a plastic bucket with a handle and a flip-up gun sight, it blasts a puff of air up to 50 feet. Blow out candles from across the room (and avoid spitting on birthday...

From Insect Lore, these rubber band-powered, wind-up butterfly toys will delight any child of wonder, and probably some adults, too. Measure approx 5” x 5” each, and actually fly. For extra fun, wind one up and place it inside a greeting card...

There’s a reason these are called IQ Gears—because they put your brain in high gear. And no caffeine required! It’s an IQ logic game that challenges you to fit all the gears on the game board by connecting the side wheels so they spin...

We believe, deep down in our hearts, that this is the world's smallest remote-control helicopter. (This world, anyway.) Measures approx 3-1/2" long and stands 2" tall from landing pads to rotors. Stores in 3-1/4" x 3-3/4" plastic box that doubles as the...

It's real name is the Rock Dove, and it ought to be the national bird. Doesn't fly south for the winter like those wimpy geese, never swoops out of the sky to eat unsuspecting bunnies like bald eagles, just minds its own business and eats whatever you...

Can a toy get any cuter, even when it’s a truck? These micro metal single-pack assorted Tonka® vehicles come nestled in a plastic toolbox that measures 2” x 1” x 1-1/2”. Your random and unknown style of Tonka® truck will...

Walking Dead lasted 12 years and ended in 2022, but that is what surplus is for isn’t it? For fans of the show, we have a treat for you. Wind-up dead folks. All the gang is here. Andrea, Daryl, Glenn, Governor, Michonne, Rick and Walker (who is a...

You know how you’ve been looking for some pull-back toys of Cats in Boxes for that racing league you’re going to start? You just found them. We’ll send you (4) different ones, and when your league expands, just drop us a line and...

When the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, you'll need a gyroscope. This “Avengers: Age of Ultron” gyro includes a stand and has a cord that you feed through the top and yank to spin it. Lights up briefly, but probably longer than James...

From the awesome Thames & Kosmos, this Gecko Run Marble Run Starter Set is kind of like a hott wheelz track, but for marbles, and way more innovative. Your kid uses the more than (60) total parts to intuitively build countless combinations of unique...

Just stick these 2-3/4" long rubber feet on your fingers and patter away. They’re puppet feet that have lost their puppets, and are super-accurate, with toenails, ankle bones and that little vein on the arch. You get (2) right feet, and (2) left...