Classic Toys

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This hard-plastic ducky is like a rubber ducky, but with a pull-back mechanism that makes it roll on its own. Who doesn’t love a pull-back duck? In authentic rubber-ducky yellow with (2) rubber wheels on the bottom, independent suspension and no...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

is best done with the sacred mother of all novelty items, the original Whoopee Cushion. Marlon Brando owned one. Of course he did, they're both American classics, except the cushion was born in Toronto. Ours is the classic 8" version.

Or the Swanee whistle. Whatever you call it, this little slide whistle (just consider it the smallest trombone in the universe) has an outsized musical history. No elevator has ever fallen in a cartoon without its accompaniment, and no jug band is...

It could have been called an Alabama Buzzer after Alabama Vest, the man who invented it. Or a Clegghorn, after Thaddeus Von Clegg, the clock master who fabricated the first one. But the hand-crafted 4-3/4" long steel instrument was a simple amusement,...

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...

Imagine the family competitions you could have with this floating ball game. Hours of fun, minutes at a time! The wooden pipe is approx 6” long, and the 1-3/8” Styrofoam balls are yours to levitate through the magic of steady breath 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!...

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...

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...

Us too, but then who doesn’t kazoo? These 5" long classic steel kazoos have 1-1/8” resonators, and you'll get (1) out of a possible (16) festive patterns. They come in sealed blind-box packaging so even our warehouse elves don't know which...

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...

Back in the days when technology was a good guy, and cereal boxes came with real toys, kids got diving submarines that they charged with baking powder and played with in the bath tub. Now kids can have the same fun again. We have found a (gray!)...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Picture yourself on a boat in a river: tangerine trees, marmalade skies, the whole deal. Sound good? Now give that view to a child with the Dabble Lab™ Rainbow Prism Kaleidoscope kit. Lucy wishes she had this STEAM kit with (3) markers, (1)...

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...

There's optical science and high school physics, and then there's making pretty colors with this little 4-1/2" x about 1" equilateral acrylic prism. It makes the same rainbows that the beveled edges on the glass in the French doors to your grandmother's...

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 moves the nags along...

Marionettes are great until you have to operate them yourself. We choose the finger variety for our puppetry exploits, and we have (2) styles ready to hop on your digits and perform! You pick: the 4-1/2” long x 1” wide wiggly snakes in colors...

That’s what it says on the package of our Thunder Shaker, and that’s what we’ve been doing since we busted it out. It’s a metal tube that measures 6" tall x 2" dia with a 16” long metal spring coming out of the bottom. Shake...

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...

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...

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...

A company called Supreme Party and Novelties™ gets credit for this supreme party novelty, an LED light-flashing helicopter toy with an included battery. Includes (1) whirly-style helicopter toy that lights up in different colors as it flies...

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...

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...