Vintage Toys

16/08/2019

Brilliant new vid from our buddies over at Yarn Hub - do you know this story? Keep your eye out for the cat!

If a stove begins talking what do you do? The family began hearing strange screams, laughter, and demonic voices coming from their stove. In 1934 the police ...

02/12/2017

Lavinia Warren’s wedding to Tom Thumb attended by 10,000 in Civil War-era NYC

One of the preferred forms of entertainment throughout the Victorian period was the exhibition of so-called freaks, the monstrosities or marvels of nature.

24/11/2017

Nostalgia alert Bandai celebrates 20 years of Tamagotchi with re-release

21/11/2017

In the original story, Pinocchio is hanged by the Fox and the Cat on a branch of an oak tree.

In 1940, Disney released a family-friendly cartoon about Geppetto, an impoverished elderly carpenter who in all of his loneliness decides to craft a wooden

04/11/2017

Directed and written by Walter Murch, Return to Oz was loosely based on The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, the second and third books in the series.

The 1939 Technicolor musical The Wizard of Oz is one of the most culturally significant and arguably the most watched Hollywood film ever made. Nominated f

31/10/2017

Disney whitewashed the story of Pinocchio, originally that of an ungrateful and “wretched boy,” hanged for his mistakes

In 1940, Disney released a family-friendly cartoon about Geppetto, an impoverished elderly carpenter who in all of his loneliness decides to craft a wooden

30/10/2017

The suite was originally intended to be an apartment for Walt Disney

Everyone recognizes Cinderella Castle, the fairytale palace that exists in two Disney theme parks: the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida and Tokyo Disneyla

29/10/2017

" Who's that I see walkin' in these woods? -Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood. "

Childhood memorabilia can hold many fond memories, whether it's the favorite teddy or the fluffy, irreplaceable blanket that we once snuggled with at bedti

27/10/2017

A 15-year-old Danish Boy Scout named P***e Huld

In the overcrowded world of fictional characters, there are few faces as adorable as Tintin's. Unlike Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman, Tintin, the young

26/10/2017

Barbie’s predecessor, Lilli, was a brazen German woman who liked to have a good time

Barbie, the doll which many young girls have played with and may have shaped their perceptions of female beauty, was inspired by a doll that may have seeme

25/10/2017

He also voiced Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in The Muppet Show, and Bert, and Grover in Sesame Street.

A puppeteer who performed with Jim Henson's Muppets, the actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter Frank Oz, is a man of clearly many talents. Altho