The 1980s were an unforgettable era for kids, packed with toys that fired up imaginations and sparked endless hours of play. But while some became cultural icons, others were just plain bizarre.

We were doing our daily harvest of YouTube for fresh hacks when we stumbled on a video that eventually led us to this conversion of a 1980s Armatron ... Shack Armatron toy. Expecting a mess ...

Toyland, toyland, little girl and boy land, while you dwell within it you are ever happy there,” so says the famous lines from Victor Herbert’s children’s operetta “Babes in Toyland.” ...

Then in the 1960s, toys made from plastic, like dolls, building blocks and cars, became popular. By the 1980s, there we many more toys to play with, including figures based on favourite films and ...