Toys

A new wave of Pokémon fever is hitting adults hard who played the game as kids in the '90s and are now willing to shell out investor-level prices for a single playing card or unopened box from their youth.

Extremely rare and extremely expensive, these five Pokémon cards are the most coveted cards on the market. Here's why.

Lovingly assembled over decades, the vast and storied collection contains some of the rarest and most-prized toys and banks ever to reach the market.

Collaboration played a critical role in the legacy of View-Master, which was first introduced at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, the Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Illinois, was the largest kite maker in North America, and if you were a kid every breeze seemed to whisper fun.

For about sixty years, the Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Illinois, had the world on a string, making more kites than anyone else. The last Hi-Flier kite flew out of Decatur in 1981.

The U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, featuring jars of uranium, instructions on how to split an atom, and 150 nifty Cold War experiments, promised 1950s kids big fun with radioactive materials. What could go wrong?!!

Collecting world stunned as Super Mario Bros. video game smashes world record, becoming the first video game to sell for more than a million dollars

Introduced in 1960, the Etch A Sketch, with its TV stylings and power of instant reinvention, was the perfect toy for a fast emerging modern world.