WASHINGTON - Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys — including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters — because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The ...

Remember a few years ago when a talking Elmo potty-training book malfunctioned and cheerfully queried an unsuspecting family with the rhetorical question "Who wants ...

NEW YORK – Eyes still glazed over from those assault-on-the-senses trips to the toy store during the holidays? Better splash some cold water on your face, because the industry is already back with its ...

WASHINGTON — Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys — including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters — because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. The ...

Ron Dubren is living the fantasy of anyone who ever dreamed of hitting it big. Dubren, a New Yorker to the core, is the toy inventor behind the hottest-selling item of the holiday shopping season. He ...

Twelve years ago, a mechanized version of a red plushy “Sesame Street” co-star became the unofficial face of obnoxious Christmas consumerism. Retailing for $28.99, “Tickle Me Elmo” resold for as much ...

Each holiday season, a new crop of must-have toys suddenly pops up on store shelves and then almost as quickly sell out. Then, a holiday frenzy takes hold and otherwise sane shoppers end up trampling ...