toys

A playful design company has created a delightful set of wooden playthings. The Dream Car by Huzi Design was a successful Kickstarter campaign for a set of interchangeable wooden blocks that can be used to create any kind of car – no, not just a car, any kind of thing on wheels. Now ...

Hot Wheels has rolled out a new series of die-cast toys aimed directly at our nostalgic hearts. The Retro Entertainment Series plucks iconic cars from movie and television past, shrinks them down to 1:64 scale and packages them up for your buying enjoyment. The collection includes machines like ...

Citroen has taken their DS3 - the car they modify to contend the World Rally Championship - and made it green in a very unconventional way. No hybrid drive here folks - no green paint either. No, Citroen has taken a unique stab at commemorating Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena's nine WRC wins. ...

You mean to tell me you created a time machine... out of Lego bricks? So, we may have taken a bit of poetic license with that line, but still – as a group of automotive-obsessed children of the '80s, there could hardly be a better toy with which to relive our childhoods than a Lego Back to ...

Automoblox, the little and terrifically simple wooden cars, are always a treat for car guys around the world. And every single year, tonnes of of us get them as gifts. So even though scale-model cars are as detailed as the real thing, R/C cars can go faster than and do things that real cars ...

If idle hands are the devil's playground, idle engineers are a field day of awesome! Gareth Jones is a mechanical engineer with a penchant for slot cars, and when his child grew to an age to appreciate scale cars whirring around a plastic track, he did what any responsible father would do: he ...

Yeah, yeah, you liked to build with Lego bricks when you were a kid. But could you build a go-kart large enough and sturdy enough to carry your own weight? Don't answer yet. Could you then make this monster kart actually move under its own power, albeit slowly, like the real thing? We thought ...

Time to get creative folks. The minds behind Lego are making a new movie, Lego: The Motion Picture, and they need your help in populating the big screen with custom-created vehicles. Cars, planes, boats, boat-cars, truck-planes. They're all fair game if they can provide transportation to those ...

People were riveted by Roger Penske's deep blue Sunoco Camaros driven by Mark Donohue in the 1968 and '69 Trans-Am series. Spectators were fascinated because the cars were big winners, and rivals couldn't figure out how Penske's Camaros were so dominant. The 1969 Camaro you see above above pays ...

GreenLight Toys has unveiled a series of foam-paper car puzles for 2012, five American muscle cars and one muscle truck. The MotoBuildz aren't exactly models, they're more like those 500-piece landscape puzzles you find at educational toy stores, only with fewer pieces and less ...