Desk Toys

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...

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...

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...

Puzzle Cube Craziness! This mini version is just as frustrating and the big one and it was all the rage in the late 70's...80's...90's...oh, heck with it they are still all the rage. This pocket sized mini version is great to hand out as freebies, kids...

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 moves...

Hi, My Name Is Mini Floppy! 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...

Radiometer Another oldie but goodie. Approximately 6" tall evacuated clear glass bulb mounted in a black stand, 3" in diameter at the top. A four bladed vane is balanced on a needle inside the sphere. Because opposite surfaces of the vanes are black and...

Swingin' Desk Toy Newtonian demonstrator for science teachers. Mindless play for the rest of us. These are shiny, nicely balanced, high-performance examples of the classic Newton's Cradle - a ball on one end of a row of (5)...

Time Is Running Out... Like the days of our lives, the sand in this glass timer is running out. This hourglass is a double teardrop shape with blue sand, and takes approx an hour to empty (nothing was certain in the pre-digital age, my friend), and...

You don’t need your therapist to know that you’re projecting again when you fire up this far-out Star Projection Lamp. Buttons control a multitude of lighting options: single color, dual color, tri-color or white with various added-color...

A real desktop mesmerizer. This 7"x 5" moving sand sculpture creates endless sand-dune vistas, and can be so easily flipped to start over that you need never go back to actually working. The sand is so fine it's nearly liquid; the current version is...

No, it doesn't; it runs out. See for yourself with this hourglass full of iron filings. The steel base has a magnet, so time flies when the glass is on it, and the filings make pretty stalagmites. Stick a magnet on the neck, however, and you can stop...

Rubber Soul? When your Faustian rubber duckies want to sell their rubber souls to the devil, this is the Devil Duck they call. In traditional devilish red, with black horns and tail, it measures 4-1/2” long x approx 3-1/2” from waterline to...

Are You A Thimble Or A Top Hat? Monopoly® fans—unite! No wait—everyone for themselves! However you see it, this (5)-piece Monopoly® surprise mystery box is right up your alley, the one behind Virginia Avenue. Boxes, which are...

Perpetual Motion\nSpin this spindle and watch it turn in perpetuity!!  Well, for a long time anyway.  Inside the 5-1/2" long colored plastic spindle are magnets which are repelled by magnets in the 5" x 3" black plastic base.  The...

See A Crystal Ball In Your Future? Well, if you had a crystal ball, you'd be able to see that there's a crystal ball in your future, and you'd know not to pass up this very, very nice glass gazing ball. It's 4-1/4" dia (and heavy) and comes with a footed...

DIAMONDS ARE EVERYBODY'S BEST FRIEND Our each is a dozen gorgeous, glimmering glass gems, in a round cut in (12) different colors, including pink, green, blue, red, golden, white, and various shades of each. Think diamond, ruby,...

Spirographic Madness 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...

Ever Wonder About Your Future? We can’t predict your future, but our Magic 8 Balls will take a crack at it. These are the classic toys that have predicted, or refused to predict, major life events of children everywhere since...

Ginormous Gem Bigger than a baseball across the top, this is one ginormous jewel. You pick a clear or translucent-sky-blue, 24% lead crystal, cut-glass gem. It’s 3-1/8” dia at the top, tapering to point 2-1/8”...

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...

Time was, these service bells were on every teacher's desk and the front desk of every hotel in the world. They're still a classically beautiful design, and they'll still bring folks running when you tap the little plunger on top. The shiny matte chrome...

Yes, your desktop is made of atoms (you, too) but this is a 7" dia chrome and black model of an atomic structure (Boronish, Paul says) that keeps on turning via the magic of electromagnetics, at least until the (4) AA batteries you put in it wear out...

Don’t be alarmed—this Inox® alarm clock won’t walk around your room while you’re sleeping. It’s a Robot Clock because it has a stylish robot look to it, round with (4) asymmetrical outcroppings, and it switches modes...

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...

Do you Hoberman? The Hoberman Mini multi-colored sphere expands and contracts with a magical motion so fluid and simple. Kids can’t help but play with it for hours. (And adults too!) A master of illusion, the sphere can be thrown, bounced, kicked,...

Waddling Walkers… 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,...

Packer Backers! You either love them, or you hate them, either way this piggy bank can help you save up for your stockholder share! Approx 7" x 7" plastic bank with a digital readout on the top, so you know how close you are to owning a piece of the...

If your heart or soul is currently closed for repairs, get a foam rubber hard hat and squeeze your stress away. Call it the stress helmet. Great for the construction worker in your life. Comes in bright yellow, in the accurate, detailed shape of a...