Stefanie Eskander has been designing toys for most of the main toy companies, including Mattel, Tonka and Playskool for more ...

Akron native Renée Rosen says that her novel “Let’s Call Her Barbie” was “in the works long before the Barbie movie came out,” and the timing could hardly be better. The story of an American icon is ...

Regardless of whether it's toys, cars, or high-tech gadgets, many U.S. companies have outsourced what they manufacture to ...

It's time to dust off your old toys you may have stashed away in a cupboard as they could make you a fortune. Experts say ...

As it did for most early-2000s babies, Polly Pocket reigned supreme as my childhood toy of choice. Of course, my Barbie and ...

While Barbie and the like may have continued to be popular throughout the 90s, youngsters and doll collectors also snapped up ...

If you have some old toys lurking in your home, you could be sitting on a small, or rather large, fortune. These six 90s toys ...

AFP Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945 ... after noticing that her young daughter preferred playing with paper dolls of adult women rather than baby dolls. This made ...