TOYS

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada issued a voluntary recall on a Chinese company's children's toys after Guidecraft had received some complaints.

This year's 25th iteration of the industry-geared event is at the height of demand: promoters, labels, bands, partiers, punks, parasites, the pigeonholed, the plied-for, and the primped are all out in full force

The maker of the novelty desk toys known as Buckyballs is warning parents that the balls are hazards after a 3-year-old Oregon girl nearly died after ingesting 37 of the magnets.

Prince William and Kate Middleton have been reinvented as Ken and Barbie, in commemoration of their Royal Wedding last year.

The 109th American International Toy Fair 2012 kicked off this week at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, New York City. The fair is bringing together more than 1,100 exhibiting manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from around the globe to showcase their toys and entertainment products.

Hasbro--the multinational toy and board game company that owns brands such as Candyland, Play-Doh, Mr. Potato Head, NERF, Monopoly, Ouiji and more--will be partnering with the leading social media game creator, Zynga, in order to produce new toys.

Iranian officials have banned dolls based off the popular television series, The Simpsons, reported a local newspaper Monday. From Homer to Lisa, dolls of the Simpsons family join Barbie and other toys on a banned toylist as the Islamic Republic seeks to curtail the promotion of Western values.

Writing in her blog rantsfrommommyland.com, Julianna Miner describes the strange and cringe-worthy names her 3-year-old daughter conjures for her innocent looking toys. In the video 'The Island of Lost Toys' Miner shows viewers several examples such as the sweet looking dog called Damnnit or the pretty pink bunny called Crack Rabbit.

The big-screen adaptation of the flexible toy Stretch Armstrong will finally make its way to the big screen thanks to a new partnership between Hasbro and Relativity Media.

Prices of Mattel Inc toys like Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars have gone up as the company tries to compensate for increasing costs for materials like resin and rising wages in China.

The Iranian morality police are cracking down on a decades-old Barbie doll ban, claiming the classic American toy is threatening Islamic values.

A new campaign promoting the creation of a Bald and Beautiful Barbie has taken Mattel by storm. Fans of the Barbie meant for coping cancer patients or children of cancer patients are using a Facebook page to promote the idea, arguing that being bald can be beautiful and should be endorsed by Mattel. We take a look at seven other controversial Barbies that Mattel has produced in the past.

A top 5 of what has been showcased so far.

Some mother's give their young daughters Barbies for Christmas as presents. Sarah Burge, a woman known as the Human Barbie, didn't just give her daughter a Barbie doll, she gave her a liposuction voucher to help make her 7-year-old daughter, Poppy, into a Barbie.

Build-A-Bear, a toy retailer that sells custom-made stuffed animals, has issued a recall for approximately 300,000 of its teddy bears that could be a choking hazard to children. The store is now offering a coupon for a free bear in exchange for those recalled.

Build-A-Bear Workshop has issued a recall on 300,000 of its Colorful Hearts Teddy Bears sold in the U.S. and Canada after the Consumer Product Safety Commission deemed the product a choking hazard.

Toymaker Hasbro, who owns the Transformers toy line, is suing ASUS over the name of their new Android tablet called the Transformer Prime.

Toys R Us and Macy's will keep many of their stores open 24/7 in the days leading up to Christmas Eve, giving last minute shoppers a last-second savior for their tardiness.

For procrastinators, last-minute holiday shopping can be a pain, but Toys R Us is on your side. The toy giant has extended its store hours before Christmas so that shoppers can grab deals on toys with stores open 24-7 until late Christmas Eve.

Retailers are coming up with ways to make the gift card - that staple of holiday giving - more exciting to receive, from including a set of Lego blocks to putting images of popular paintings on the plastic cards.

It's that time of the year again when the pressure of playing Santa proves challenging for most parents. Your kid wants a very special toy, without which the world seems to fall apart.