During World War II, a naval engineer accidentally creates an iconic spiral toy that walks downstair...

As the post-war baby boom creates unprecedented demand for toys, Ruth Handler turns her greatest gam...

As car culture cranks up in the early 1950s, a young machinist in England invents one of the world's...

After failing to make a living selling lithographs, Milton Bradley creates one of America's first bo...

After passing on the biggest deal in toy industry history, Mattel President Ray Wagner finds himself...

Defense contractor Ralph Baer invents the world's first home video game console. But it is soon ecli...

A visionary named Marvin Glass oversees the creation of many of the most iconic toys of the 20th Cen...

At the height of the industrial age, as America's cities go vertical for the first time, a Yale educ...

Hungarian professor, Erno Rubik, ignites "Cube Mania" with his 3-D puzzle that takes the world by st...

In the midst of the 1970s folk art movement, art student Martha Nelson creates a one-of-a-kind doll...

In the 1980s, groundbreaking technology doesn't just improve adult life, it redefines classic toys....

After the U.S. videogame crash of 1983, a Japanese electronics company single-handedly resurrects th...

The Christmas crazes that helped transform holiday shopping into the frantic, no-holds-barred $1.1 t...

Gross-out humor is as old as human society itself, and so are the toys designed to capitalize on it....

In 1983, underdog company Tonka sets out to bring a game-changing toy from Japan to America: the tra...

Before World War II, board games are mostly simple, but postwar peace and prosperity reveals a deman...

Thanks to the industry-defining innovations of three men through the creation of games like Super Ma...

In the 1970s, the board game industry was aimed almost entirely at children, until a literal game ch...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles high kick their way into the action figure market in the late 1980s...

As toys become increasingly complex in the early 1970s, two unconventional inventors risk their home...

Two chance discoveries in the 1950s turn mundane industrial materials into legendary toys; Etch A Sk...

Santa Claus is one of the most beloved figures -- and famous faces -- on Earth, a symbol of hope and...

From Furbys to Pogs, the 1990s were full of unforgettable fad toys; it was a decade where old school...

From the velocipede to the Schwinn Stingray, or even pedal cars to Power Wheels, viewers will roll t...

For six decades two silly, but savvy entrepreneurs--S.S. Adams and H. Fishlove--turned their love of...

From Lionel Trains to video games, for the right collector our cherished childhood toys can be worth...