toys

Staff-free shopping. We’re not sure it’ll catch on.

Olympic mascot finds a cult following…

Christmas shopping becomes a pleasure at the Science Museum’s shop, with everything from robots to kinetic artwork to choose from. Perfect for unusual stocking fillers.

The famous clipper, currently under restoration in Greenwich, has been recreated in LEGO.

A troublingly regular series in which we highlight an important social issue that the mainstream media won’t touch: the plight of London’s increasingly neglected toy animals Yeah, yeah, Toy Story 3 is a proper tear-jerker. But have you noticed the real tragedy unfolding on the …

An occasional series in which we highlight an important social issue that the mainstream media won’t touch: the plight of London’s increasingly neglected toy animals. ‘Save me!’, implores this plump bunny, abandoned on the cobbles of Poplar Road, Loughborough Junction. “Clearly a victim of a …

An occasional series in which we highlight an important social issue that the mainstream media won’t touch: the plight of London’s increasingly neglected toy animals. We’re receiving an increasing number of reports of toy animal maltreatment in London. Three instances in the past week alone. …

With Toy Story 3 finally out in UK cinemas, we thought this would be an appropriate time to visit London’s very own toy museum, Pollock’s. Considering its central location, this enigmatic small museum and shop remains scandalously obscure. Pollock’s occupies two 18th century houses behind …

An occasional series In which we highlight an important social issue that the mainstream media won’t touch: the plight of London’s increasingly neglected toy animals. “It appears that faux-animal maltreatment runs deeper that just fuzzy carnivores,” says Caryn Tegtmeyer, who snapped this tragic happenstance at …

Reader ‘Lunar Raphael’ sends us this disturbing image of a child’s plaything recklessly abandoned in a London puddle. The head-down pose is strikingly similar to the recent Teletubby atrocity chronicled on these pages. The bespattered doll is a further tragic entry in our casebook of …