Classic Toys

An Alien in the Hand is Worth Two... These 2-3/4" Alien puppets are modeled after real alien hands. No Joke. They even glow in the dark just like real aliens. Your get a set of (4), one for each finger on one hand. Buy two for all your fingers! (Sorry...

A S.T.E.M. Of A Puzzle... This excellent STEM Explorers™ Geomakers™ 3D building challenge kit/puzzle from Learning Resources® reminds us of tinkerer’s toys from days past. Allows kids to connect (58) pieces in many configurations,...

You Can’t Eat These Gyros... We love when science and play come together, and this precision gyroscope is our latest obsession in that department. Constructed mainly out of durable plastic with rubberized tips, this Cyclone Gyroscope® was...

Stick Your Finger In One Of These Nothing says compact fun like rubber finger puppets. We recommend these for adding a touch of whimsy to parental or grandparental reading of bedtime stories. You pick a quartet of rubber cats or squirrels, in four...

Or maybe a little fling zing, oft described as a Chinese yo-yo, although that’s not a name we’d use, being sensitive and enlightened, which you can tell by reading our catalog. A fling zing is a roll of colorful waxed paper on a stick. Snap...

Excellent spinners, these 2-1/4” dia tin tops. Painted in assorted pretty geometric patterns that become equally pretty color circles when spinning, which they’ll do for a very long time. Kids could have contests. Adults could, too...

Stick Your Finger In One Of These Nothing says compact fun like rubber finger puppets. We recommend these for adding a touch of whimsy to parental or grandparental reading of bedtime stories. You pick a quartet of rubber cats or squirrels, in four...

T-t-t-t-toothy Fun THE American classic novelty item (even ahead of the whoopee cushion and rubber vomit, we think) is a set of chattering choppers. Auto-dentures. Invented by Eddy Goldfarb in 1949, a man who made the Toy Industry Hall of Fame ahead of...

Renaissance Kaleidoscope Forget that the 6-3/4" long body is festooned with Latin phrases and old maps. The stones/beads/glass inside the tube would make designing windows in cathedrals a snap. And hey, that's good work if you can get it. A nice gift for...

Back To Basics It could have been called an Alabama Buzzer after Alabama Vest, the man who invented it. Or a Clegghorn, after Thaddeus Von Clegg, the clock master who fabricated the first one. But the hand-crafted 4-3/4" long steel instrument was a...

You Kazoo? Us too, but then who doesn’t kazoo? These 5" long classic steel kazoos have 1-1/8” resonators, and come in (16) festive patterns. They come in sealed blind-box packaging so even our warehouse elves don't know which style you'll...

Play The Piston Flute Or the Swanee whistle. Whatever you call it, this little slide whistle (just consider it the smallest trombone in the universe) has an outsized musical history. No elevator has ever fallen in a cartoon without its accompaniment, and...

The original Joy Buzzer was called the Joke Buzzer (1932 U.S. patent #1845735, Soren Adams) and it replaced the more dangerous Zapper, which is lost to time, more's the pity. Our standard wind-up model is a 1-3/8" dia circle of perennial vibrating fun,...

These Little Balls Are Super! Technically, these balls aren’t Super Balls, just like all tissue isn’t Kleenex. But they’re super in our eyes. With cool, colorful marbleized designs, they measure approx 1-1/16” dia each, or 27mm...

Byzantine Spinners from AS&S A tiny touch of whimsy from your local scientific and surplus monger. You get a trio of 1-3/4" dia x approx 2-5/8" tall plastic tops in assorted colors, with the American Science & Surplus logo on the disc. The tops...

Makin' Whoopee... is best done with the sacred mother of all novelty items, the original Whoopee Cushion. Marlon Brando owned one. Of course he did, they're both American classics, except the cushion was born in Toronto. Ours is the classic 8" version.

Diving Submarine Back in the days when technology was a good guy, and cereal boxes came with real toys, kids got diving submarines that they charged with baking powder and played with in the bath tub. Now kids can have the same fun again. We have found a...

Flying Bird From France comes this fun mechanical plastic bird that really flies by flapping its wings. Officially known as an ornithopter, it's humbly called Tim by it's friends. It is about 8" long and has a wingspan of 16" tip to tip. Snap the wings...

Get More Out Of Your Jigsaw... Sometimes a regular jigsaw puzzle isn’t enough. That’s when you turn to these 2-in-1, double-sided Jigsaw Puzzles with word puzzle patterns on one side and blank Sudoku and number puzzles on the other. Solve...

The Better Butterfly Puzzle... This was a really fun & challenging puzzle. The colors are beautiful and pieces are neatly cut & fit together well with many different shapes. This would be a great puzzle to work on as a group because you can...

Puppet Show for the Rest of Us. These monsters decided to try and improve themselves through genetic manipulation experimentation and mutated into strange new forms. These new, superior monsters have tails, scales, and nails to impale. Each monster...

Lucy In The Sky With Acrylic Gemstones Picture yourself on a boat in a river: tangerine trees, marmalade skies, the whole deal. Sound good? Now give that view to a child with the Dabble Lab™ Rainbow Prism Kaleidoscope kit. Lucy wishes she had this...

Ducky With A Twist This hard-plastic ducky is like a rubber ducky, but with a pull-back mechanism that makes it roll on its own. Who doesn’t love a pull-back duck? In authentic rubber-ducky yellow with (2) rubber wheels on the bottom, independent...

Stay Balanced When the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, you'll need a gyroscope. This “Avengers: Age of Ultron” gyro includes a stand and has a cord that you feed through the top and yank to spin it. Lights up briefly, but probably...

Double The Whoopee We’re proud as can be to offer the world’s largest whoopee cushion--twice as big as the original for a nation whose bottom line has doubled since the original cushion was invented nearly 100 years ago. We call that progress...

Imagine the family competitions you could have with this floating ball game. Hours of fun, minutes at a time! The wooden pipe is approx 6” long, and the 1-3/8” Styrofoam balls are yours to levitate through the magic of steady breath and...

The Classic View This reincarnation of the classic View-Master® is called (wait for it) the View-Master Classic®. As much fun as ever, and still battery-free. Comes with (3) reels with (21) 3-D images, including Age of Dinosaurs, Safari Adventure...

Bend Light For the Memories There's optical science and high school physics, and then there's making pretty colors with this little 4-1/2" x about 1" equilateral acrylic prism. It makes the same rainbows that the beveled edges on the glass in the French...

Rubber Chicken With Report... This goldenesque rubber chicken can talk! Actually, squawk. Known as the Shrilling Chicken, it’s 11” long, in chicken-skin goldish color, complete with goose bumps, a squish me tag and don't forget the gaping...