Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cell phone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on TV. Now.

In 1964, Mattel introduced the first ever ThingMaker, which was more popularly known as "Creepy Crawlers". The ability to cook up, literally, toys of your own, albeit limited to said crawlers, might ...

The designers of the Free Art and Technology collective have come up with a set of nearly 80 free 3D models for adapter bricks to connect pieces from several popular construction toys, enabling anyone ...

At New York’s Toy Fair trade show over the weekend, Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home. The device works in ...

Did you know that originally Mr. Potato Head was just a box full of random body parts that kids were supposed to jab into actual potatoes? It sounds like a crazy idea, but Mr. Potato Head went on to ...

Mattel has announced an easy-to-use 3D printing eco-system for families – ThingMaker Design App and the ThingMaker 3D Printer. Through a collaboration with Autodesk, ThingMaker is designed to “hand ...

It’s easy to assume that traditional kid’s toys are taking a beating due to the sky-high popularity of tablets and smartphones among the younger generation. But toy-maker Mattel is attempting to ...

You may have heard about 3-D printing, a technological phenomenon that uses a robotic arm to build objects one layer at a time. As people get imaginative and create items in a one-stop-shop fashion, ...