If you’re looking for ways to keep your kids entertained while helping them develop new skills, Five Below is the perfect ...

What was your favorite toy when you were a kid? Was it a car or Barbie doll? One local store has been offering these for ...

This story appears in Birmingham magazine's December 2016 issue. Subscribe today! When Homewood Toy and Hobby opened in 1950, it didn't sell dolls or building blocks; there were no puzzles or books.

MARTINS FERRY, Ohio -- The U.S. toy industry is expected to have its strongest year in at least a decade. Annual toy sales are projected to rise 6.2 percent to $19.9 billion in 2015. The co-owner of a ...

More than a century after they were invented, toy trains remain popular Christmas toys. Showing a Lionel train set in motion with smoke and train sounds at the Pittston Train Shop, owner John Merlino ...

CHRISTIANSBURG -- In a time when many businesses are cutting back, Adventure Hobbies in Christiansburg has been growing. Recently, store owners found reason to expand both their space and their ...

SOMERSWORTH — Sometimes going through the worst moments brings out the best in others. When a pair of local hobby shops were broken into in recent weeks, it brought the card-collecting community ...

MINNETONKA — The empty store space left by the closure of the Minnetonka Toys R Us will be filled when a Hobby Lobby arts-and-crafts store opens next year. The toy store at 14100 Wayzata Blvd. closed ...

SPRINGFIELD, MO- A store that caters to kids of all ages is making a big move and expansion on the city’s south side. In 2018, OzarksFirst’s Mike Landis spoke with local HobbyTown owner Tim Weyers ...

Hobby Lobby, a popular craft and home decor chain, is set to open a new store in Knoxville at a site formerly occupied by Toys “R” Us. Construction is underway on the 53,000 square-foot building ...

Almost a year after Knoxville’s only Toys R Us store closed — along with the chain’s 800 other locations — Hobby Lobby announced it will take over the space in Suburban Plaza shopping center. The ...

When Ed and Ruth Schock opened their little toy and hobby shop in the couple’s two-story Broad Ripple home in 1947, it was the start of what would become one of Indianapolis’ most beloved institutions ...