The new Mothman plush from Build-A-Bear appeared to sell out within hours of its announcement. The plush toy is inspired by a West Virginia legend.

The first "Teddy bear" was put on sale on this day in history, Feb. 15, 1903. Created by Morris and Rose Michtom, the bear toy, inspired by the president, was a huge success.

The toy company’s new collection can be found in the “Bear Cave” — asking users to pledge that they are over the age of 18 before clicking in to the site.

By 1908, the bear had become such a popular toy that a Michigan minister warned that replacing dolls with toy bears would destroy the maternal instincts in little girls. In 1963, Benjamin Michtom, at ...

Around the same time, the German toy company Steiff made its own stuffed bears, shipping 3000 of them to U.S. toy stores. Soon, the cuddly toys were going by “Teddy Bears.” Teddy Bear With ...

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Teddy bears are now an internationally beloved children’s toy. But few remember the presidential hunting trip and state boundary dispute that led to the sale of the first such bear on this date ...

A U.S. judge rejected Build-A-Bear Workshop's effort to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that its Skoosherz plush toys were unauthorized knockoffs of Squishmallows, the popular plush toys made by a unit ...

This subspecies of black bear is behind the origin of the legend of the famed child's stuffed animal, the Teddy Bear from President Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 hunt in Mississippi. Roosevelt ...

In the era of the Beanie Baby Bubble, the Doodle Bear was a refreshing addition to the toy aisle. Instead of feeling pressure to shrink-wrap the stuffed animals and keep them as collector's items ...