Toys

Greenberg's Guides Lionel Trains Pocket Price Guide 2008 (Greenberg's Pocket Price Guide Lionel Trains)

Lionel Pocket Price Guide 1901-2008

Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll 2008: Identification & Values (Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Doll Collector's Editions)

Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994

Introduced in the 1980s, the 3 3/4-inch G.I. Joe became an instant hit. Today, the first run of these action figures (1982-1994) has become one of the hottest collectibles in the toy-collecting hobby. The Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994 is the must-have resource for enthusiasts, with more coverage than any other book available.

This comprehensive, full-color reference features 1,000 brilliant photos, identification information and current collector pricing for 350 action figures and 240 vehicles and accessories.

-The most comprehensive coverage available anywhere -1,000 full color, detailed photos -Coverage of 350 action figures and 240 vehicles and accessories, with current pricing and identification information

Breyer Animal Collector's Guide: Identification and Values (Breyer Animal Collector's Guide)

This second edition will prove popular, with a gallery of over 500 colour photos, dates, value ranges, and other vital information about virtually every Breyer animal made to date, including special run models. It also gives the collector information on the hobby, the company, molds, and showing horses in contests.

Beckett Price Guide to Hot Wheels, 2008 Edition

I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion

In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly inventive designer creations.

I Am Plastic provides a colorful visual history of the phenomenon, which has energized not only the toy world but the global art community as well. Fashion designers, comic book artists, underground illustrators, graffiti and fine artists now lend their creativity to the task of coming up with innovative and striking new toy designs. Artists and toys featured in this stunning overview include Frank Kozik, Dalek, Gary Baseman, Bounty Hunter, Junko Mizuno, Jason Siu, Devilrobots, and Pete Fowler.

Ty Beanies Tracker Third Edition

Ty Beanies Tracker 2nd Edition has sold out and is now out of print! By popular demand we are expanding our Beanies book once again.

Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s that Rocked

In this fond trip down memory lane, Just CanÂ’t Get Enough celebrates all the awesome products kids collected, begged their parents for, threw tantrums about, and obsessed over in the 1980s. From Hit Stix to Hungry, Hungry Hippos, My Little Pony to My Buddy, this book has all the toys and games that made the Â’80s one of the gnarliest decades of the century.

Packed with colorful photographs and illustrations and written in an entertaining, irreverent style, Just CanÂ’t Get Enough is filled with personal anecdotes, funny facts, and random trivia, along with special features like the Redonkulous Meter, which measures how beyond ridiculous each product truly was. Hilarious and original, this book is a must-have for anyone who ever snuggled with their Care Bear, staged epic battles between He-Man and Skeletor, played with their Lite-Brite for hours, or all of the above.

The Way Toys Work: The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch A Sketch, Boomerang, and More

Profiling 50 of the world’s most popular playthings—including their history, trivia, and the technology involved—this guide uncovers the hidden science of toys. Discover how an Etch A Sketch writes on its gray screen, why a boomerang returns after it is thrown, and how an RC car responds to a remote control device. Leaving no detail unrevealed, the guide includes original patent-application blueprints and photos of the “guts” of several devices. Inventors and museum curators also offer their observations of favorite gizmos while dispelling (or confirming) several toy legends. Complete with explanations of do-it-yourself experiments and tips on reverse engineering old toys to observe their interior mechanics, this entertaining and informative reference even provides pointers on how budding toy makers can build their own toys using only recycled materials and a little ingenuity.

Mego 8" Super-Heroes: World's Greatest Toys!

Lavishly illustrated with thousands of charts, checklists and color photographs, Mego 8" Super-Heroes is an obsessive examination of legendary toy company Mego (pronounced "ME-go"), and the extraordinary line of super-hero action figures that dominated the toy industry throughout the 1970s. Featuring a chronological history of Mego, interviews with former employees and Mego vendors, fascinating discoveries never revealed elsewhere, and thorough coverage of each figure and packaging variant, this full-color hardcover is the definitive guide to Mego. Brad Meltzer, New York Times-bestselling author and writer of DC's Justice League of America raves, "I've waited thirty years for this magical, beautiful book." And Chip Kidd, internationally-recognized graphic designer and author of Batman Collected, deemed it "a stunning visual experience." Written by Benjamin Holcomb.