APPLETON - If you're headed to an awkward Christmas gathering, here's a sure-fire way to break the ice. Ask the people next to you what their favorite Christmas toy was as a child. It won't take long ...

Mattel had a ton of hit toys in the 20th century. In the early 1970s, the VertiBird was one of them, letting kids pretend to fly a helicopter in circles on their loungeroom floor. An original ...

For many of us who grew up in the 1970s, “VertiBird”, the fly-it-yourself indoor helicopter, was a toy that was begged for often enough that it eventually appeared under the Christmas tree. And more ...