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...singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls, a DJ and the "$88 car." (Find that unmarked beater, discounted from $1,695, and you get to take it home for fourscore and change...
When James McLurkin was a high school junior on Long Island, N.Y., he built his first robot: a toy car that he rigged with a keypad, an LED display and a squirt gun. Then he programmed the unit to travel to the next room and "engage the target." His parents--the target in question--got a good soaking...
Searching for an excuse to play with toys without looking like a case of arrested development? Meet the urban toys. Like regular toys, they come in all materials, sizes, shapes and prices, but they're created by fashion designers, graffiti artists and underground illustrator--graphic artists like Michael Lau and Pete Fowler, and produced in limited quantities. "They are as much art as they are toys," says Paul Budnitz, owner of Kidrobot, an urban-toy boutique with outlets in San Francisco and New York City. Budnitz, whose two brick-and-mortar stores opened within a year of each other...
...Urban toys can be hard to track down. "You won't find them in traditional venues," says Budnitz. "They are too unique to be carried at mass-market outlets." But his audience isn't just pop-culture art collectors. Moms, dads, kids and stars including Robin Williams, Mike Myers and Christina Aguilera have been known to pick up quirky, irreverent and highly aesthetic dolls, teddy bears and the like at hip urban-toy stores such as Budnitz's. "Having graphic or graffiti artists involved makes these toys fresh looking and adds depth, but you don't need to go deep...
Principal David Samore was sued and suspended for pointing a toy gun at a student. Status: He has apologized, saying he was showing "even toy guns scare people...