From hairstyles to music, nearly everything about the ’80s was louder and bolder than today — and that included holidays.

Each year, there's an "it" toy — the thing every kid sees in a TV commercial and then wants to see under the Christmas tree.This whole phenomenon may have started ...

Toys with microchips moved to the top of Christmas lists in 1986. Talking stuffed animal Teddy Ruxpin was quite popular, and ...

Talking stuffed animal Teddy Ruxpin was quite popular, and so was Laser Tag. Popular electronic gadgets included VCRs, camcorders and CD players. One salesman said CDs as selling "hot as a ...

Who was Santa, really? Aged eight, I devised a cunning plan to catch him in the act, involving a booby trap and a camera. Unfortunately, the joke was on me ...

The year was 1987 and the hot toys were Teddy Ruxpin, the Tyco Turbo Hopper and talking Cabbage Patch Kids. Watch the video ...

FoloToy paused sales of its AI teddy bear Kumma after a safety group found the toy gave risky and inappropriate responses during testing. Now the company says it has restored sales after a week of ...

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that’s a ...