Matchbox Cars. My Little Pony. Transformers. These are three of the 12 finalists for the 2017 National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong Museum in Rochester, NY.

In the article The Real Santa Claus Was An Eccentric Millionaire Toymaker, OZY.com takes a look at Louis Marx, the man behind Big Wheel, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, and a myriad of play sets and tin toys.

Dungeons & Dragons. Fisher-Price Little People. Swing. These are the newly-minted 2016 inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong Museum in Rochester, NY.

Puppet, Super Soaker, and Twister were named 2015 National Toy Hall of Fame inductees.

Interested in LEGO? Check out Creations for Charity, an annual fundraising event that provides new LEGO building sets to underprivileged children during the holidays.

Dubbed “the online treasure map for collectors”, CompleteSet is an web-based application that offers a nostalgia/collectors museum, user community, and an online marketplace to help you buy that special item needed to round out your collection.

A recent story by Marilen Cawad on TheStreet website identifies play pets as one of this season’s most popular holiday toys and provides insight into their enduring appeal.

Are pretend pets the perfect pets? In this article on The Street, Toy Tales Editor-in-Chief Todd Coopee talks with Marilen Cawad about why pretend pets are perennial favourites with children.

Interested in LEGO? Check out Creations for Charity, an annual fundraising event that provides new LEGO building sets to underprivileged children during the holidays.

A recent story by Laura Bliss on the CityLab website pitches Play-Doh as a logical choice for inclusion in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) curriculum and blended learning approach that has become a working mandate in many schools in the United States.

Is Play-Doh the next big thing in the educational toy market? In this article from The Atlantic’s CityLab, Editor-in-Chief Todd Coopee contributes insight about how and why Play-Doh’s value as an educational toy is not so farfetched.