New LEGO skyscraper exhibit at Seattle’s MOHAI shows off some impressive building blocks The most impressive skyline view in Seattle is coming to the inside of the city’s Museum of History and Industry.… Read More
Seattle startup Peeka releases Barbie virtual reality kids’ book experience Seattle-based virtual reality startup Peeka is tapping into the hype around Barbie and releasing a collection of storybooks featuring the… Read More
Inside BrickCon 2023, where serious LEGO geeks have been building for this moment If you build it, they will come. Especially if you build a train, roller coaster, coral reef, space station, warship,… Read More
Inside the ultimate Star Wars house, where two fans built a galaxy-sized collection of toys and more On a piece of wooded property not that far, far away from Seattle, a life-size C-3PO figure is visible through… Read More
Funko acquires Mondo, a pop culture company with focus on records, posters and more Everett, Wash.-based Funko, sellers of pop culture toys and collectibles, has acquired Mondo, an Austin-based company that makes vinyl records,… Read More
T-Mobile’s latest bright idea is a magenta-infused Lite-Brite toy to promote its 5G network T-Mobile is tapping into a bit of toy nostalgia to shine a light on its unending quest to let everyone… Read More
Funko gets into NFTs by combining physical and digital pop culture products and acquiring key app Funko is taking the popularity of its pop-culture collectibles into the future and embracing the hysteria around NFTs. The Everett,… Read More
How I became a ‘Pop’ icon: Testing Funko’s new personalized figurine-building experience Move over Captain America, Hulk, Princess Leia, Russell Wilson and every other pop culture icon in Funko’s world of Pop!… Read More
Pre-orders start for LEGO and Nintendo ‘Super Mario’ set that interacts with the physical world A new partnership between LEGO and Nintendo promises to take the colorful bricks to a whole new level as the… Read More
Lego celebrates 20 years of the International Space Station with an out-of-this-world new model Lego is aiming high again with a new model for space geeks, this time celebrating the more than 20 years… Read More
Funko is making a Baby Yoda from Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’ — but not in time for Christmas Star Wars fans looking to stuff a little extra cuteness in someone’s stocking this holiday season will have to wait.… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lander proposed … as Lego toys Which will go into commercial service first: Blue Origin’s orbital-class New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lunar lander, or the… Read More
Funko goes Hollywood with large new retail location in heart of pop-culture world it celebrates Funko has always been a bit Hollywood, with a product line nodding to some of the biggest franchises in pop… Read More
Baseball is coming: Forget winter, spring will bring unique ‘Game of Thrones’ MLB bobbleheads Winter is leaving, and with that will come a new season of Major League Baseball and the final season of… Read More
My kids sat in front of Amazon’s first-ever printed toy catalog: ‘Whoa! … Is everything in here free?’ Forty or so years after I did the same thing with a Sears holiday catalog, and about a month after… Read More
Magical! Lego conjures up a 6,000-piece Hogwarts Castle for Harry Potter fans Find the Lego wizard in your house. You’re gonna need some help with this new set from the famed toymaker.… Read More
Funko lands another huge partner and will produce ‘Fortnite’ toys and collectibles Make room, Marvel and Star Wars and many more. Funko, the pop culture consumer products company with a stable of… Read More
Get some Pop!corn: ‘Making Fun — The Story of Funko’ to premiere on Netflix next week You’ve probably seen “Toy Story.” Now, you’ll want to see a different type of story about toys. “Making Fun —… Read More
Star Wars fans spend $3.85M to back Jabba’s Barge, Hasbro’s biggest Star Wars toy vehicle ever Fire up the R2-D2 drink cart! Star Wars geeks are going to get Jabba’s Sail Barge, a nearly 4-foot-long replica… Read More
How Funko pops out a Pop! Inside the process of creating collectible figures, from idea to product Alana and Marko are interspecies lovers. They erupt onto comic book panels amid scenes of childbirth, intense battles, and robot… Read More
Reports: Longtime retail giant Toys R Us to close more than 800 U.S. stores; 30,000 jobs likely lost Toys R Us, the chain that grew to become the best-known toy retailer in the United States over a span… Read More
Hey, sad internet, use your imagination! If Toys R Us goes bust, pick a smaller box to shop in Commentary: Reports suggesting that Toys R Us and its 800 remaining stores may not be long for this retail world… Read More
‘Hidden Figures’ no more: New Barbie dolls honor NASA’s Katherine Johnson and 16 other women “Hidden Figures” mathematician Katherine Johnson may have missed out on the Lego toy treatment, but she and 16 other women… Read More
Doll of the year: 2018’s top American Girl is an aspiring astronaut named Luciana Vega American Girl put a Space Age spin on the centuries-old tradition of dress-up dolls today by unveiling a spacesuit-clad character… Read More
Melinda Gates wants curious kids to unwrap their full STEM potential with these holiday gift ideas If the holiday gift tag is signed “Melinda,” chances are pretty good that that gift will be an inspiring one… Read More
Long-legged Teddy bear that creeped out the internet spotted in Seattle-area Goodwill — 88% off! UPDATE, Nov. 17: This story has been updated to reflect that the bear above is not a Joyfay Teddy bear.… Read More
Lego shows off its ‘Women of NASA’ toy set, without ‘Hidden Figures’ star Seven and a half months after its selection, Lego unveiled a set of minifigures celebrating NASA women researchers and explorers,… Read More
Watch astronauts flip when they get to play with a fidget spinner on the space station We’re not entirely sure if fidget spinners are still a thing on Earth. But judging by a new video from… Read More
Giant Chewbacca, Harry Potter, Batgirl and more Funko figurines added to new HQ building If you ever want to pop on by the new headquarters and flagship store for Funko in Everett, Wash., giant… Read More
Researchers run the numbers on cutting the cost of toys by 3-D printing them at home “The Lego Movie” had parents and kids singing “Everything Is Awesome” all the way to the toy stores, which boosted… Read More
