Cross a Beanie Baby with a Neopet and what do you get? The answer is Webkinz, an extensive line of plush pets with lives in an online world. Each Webkinz sold comes with a unique ID that gives its owner access to the Webkinz online community. There owners and their pets can play games, earn Webkinz cash and IM others "safely" using pre-scripted messages, among …
Collecting toys, like those made by Japanese company Medicom, can be pricey, so during a lean January you can instead have fun for free with the Readymech series. Put together by the industrious Portland-based design studio Fwis, who are also responsible for Squarewolf tees, the second series of paper Mechs have just gone up on the website. A printer, decent paper, double-sided tape and about …
Hug them, love them, give them funny names. The toys at Acorn (the latest gift spot picked by Refinery29 for CH) might make you momentarily regress, and that's why you know they're great gifts. The soft knit Rainbow Ring Stacker ($56) and the jungle and farm animal sets ($74) by I Golfini della Nonna are as loveable as they are affordable. To order, call Acorn …