Classic Toys

LEGO® is the premiere building toy, preferred by kids and adults (AFOLs) everywhere. We're no exception, we love them too. We happened across some brand new, sealed, retired, Master Builder Academy™ 20214 Adventure Designer sets and we couldn't...

Kids love trains—don’t ask us why. We just know certain things. Here, we have a (137)-piece erector-type kit that’s mostly metal, and as colorful as the stories trains have provided for centuries. Your kid can piece it together to make...

It’s never too early to start thinking about Halloween, at least not around here. This is why we’ve been so obsessed lately with this Vampire Fangs False Teeth Kit from Spooktacular Creations. Includes (3) little bottles of denture glue, (16)...

Oh, it’s Bozo! Then again, who else would be on a Bozo the Clown Pen? Features a (4)- blade windmill with Bozo himself on each of the blades. Wind up the propeller and it spins so fast and efficiently it actually throws a little breeze. You can...

Compress your own air, then let this emergency air horn rip. Why pay for cans of compressed (it’s air, for Pete’s sake) that will probably be empty when you need them anyway. This 5-1/4” tall x 2-3/16” dia pump mates with a red...

It’s not a new channel devoted to captive animals—it’s a fun assortment of (12) plastic zoo animal figurines and (1) tree in a 9” long x 2” dia reusable, clear plastic storage tube with a rope carry handle. Animals have nice...

We’re making them right at you—so you can make something googly and goofy with them. Bags come in assorted sizes, and colors of pupil and is just as jiggly as a good googly eye should be. You already know what to do with them.

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 angled pieces, and can be...

You love the classics, and Professor Puzzle brings them together in this handheld tabletop baseball pinball game. Measures 10" x 5" with a spring-loaded ball launcher and wheels that spin and bounce the (5) plastic balls around, sending them in the...

Say hello to some of the coolest toys we’ve seen in a while. These lacquered wooden beauties are multi-segmented, flexible and wiggleable, and just as beautiful as they are fun to play with. You pick: the 6" tall squirrel with the (7) hinged body...

Glass marbles...all of them are glass! Yipee! 500 marbles in assorted colors. Some bags will be all the same designs, some bags will be very assorted. Here is the catch, we choose. Hey, what do you want for $25 bucks? 500 per bag, which is about 5Lbs...

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 probably good for...

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...

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 the little ball on its cord...

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. But this one is definitely...

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” Memory Maze,...

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 instructions along the way). You...

This goldenesque rubber chicken can talk! Actually, squawk. Known as the Shrilling Chicken, it’s 11” long, in chicken-skin goldish color, complete with goose bumps, a squish me tag and don't forget the gaping mouth. Squeeze it for hours of...

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...

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 Harmonica from the folks at...

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, 32-page handbook, life insurance...

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,...

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!

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 tightropes, and...

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 6-1/2” x 2-1/4” x...

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. We'll pick one that plays...

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 assorted cups, balls, cards and...

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 the care, feeding watering and...

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 actual laser guns, and...

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 will come alive, we say!...

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 the top 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'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 condenses from the...

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 1-1/2”...

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, you pick the...

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 shown plucked and as...

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...

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 of gum with a mousetrap...

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...

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 football), medical (nurse in blue...