Pixar’s 1988 short animated film Tin Toy follows the adventure of Tinny, a one-man band tin toy, who tries to escape from a curious and playful baby. One of the earliest animated shorts produced by ...

In the world of collectible figures, Marvin Chan stands out for his love of mechanical tin toys — a passion that is also a compelling reminder of China's baby steps to becoming a manufacturing giant.

During the rebuilding of Japan after World War II, a Japanese toy designer took a discarded tin can and molded it into an intricate model car. Just inches in length, it created a phenomenon in the ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Children’s toys reflect life, so it is not surprising that many of the battery-operated toys made in Japan just after World War II represented Americans doing their jobs. The Japanese used scrap metal ...

Click to open image viewer. This friction-operated toy "Space Rocket Ship" is an example of the space-themed tin toys that were popular in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Although ...