All novelty brands

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A toy and pop-culture gift inventor working with licensed brands, best known for its RealFX Puppetronic range of hand-operated animatronic characters. The company describes its mission as bringing great brands to life.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A yo-yo manufacturer covering everything from beginner responsive models up to unresponsive competition throws. It sponsors contest players and releases signature models alongside the entry-level range.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Sells high-tolerance neodymium magnet spheres and cubes for building sculptures, and is known for its long-running legal fight with the US CPSC over the category. The site includes a gallery of what people build.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Barcelona brand making whimsical home decor and gifts, often shaped like food, body parts or pop-culture references. The products are decorative objects that work as jokes in a nicely designed way.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Makes pixel-art displays and Bluetooth speakers, including the Pixoo photo frames, Ditoo retro-computer speaker and Timebox. Owners draw their own animations in an app and push them to the LED grid.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes silicone-based Thinking Putty in more than fifty colours and effects, including glow-in-the-dark, heat-sensitive, magnetic and scented versions. Made in the USA and formulated not to dry out.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

America's original kendama company, importing and designing the Japanese ball-and-cup skill toy and supplying a pro team of players. It has been building the US kendama scene since the early 2010s.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A UK wholesale supplier of giftware and homeware to independent gift shops, adding new novelty lines weekly with an eco-friendly range alongside. It supplies much of the British novelty gift shelf.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Builds officially licensed arcade cabinets at roughly three-quarter scale so a real Pac-Man or Street Fighter machine fits in a living room. Also makes countercade and head-to-head table versions.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makers of Shashibo, the magnetic cube that folds into more than seventy shapes, plus other shape-shifting puzzles and glow toys. The Shashibo is the brand's whole identity and a fixture on desks.

Party Novelties

A large online retailer of costumes, geeky gifts, collectibles and novelty products, operating the FUN.com and HalloweenCostumes.com storefronts. Also produces exclusive costume designs in-house.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A gift catalogue built around unusual clothing, jewellery, home decor and books, historically tied to public television audiences. Its strength is the literary-and-science-nerd corner of gifting.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes LED flow props for spinning and performance: glow poi, batons, juggling clubs and the levi-wand, plus rechargeable glowsticks they pioneered. Popular at festivals and in flow-arts circles.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes micro robotic creatures that skitter across a desk on vibrating legs, plus habitat sets and battling robot lines. The bugs are the toy that made cheap vibration-driven robotics mainstream.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Started with the widely mocked and widely bought head-enveloping nap pillow, and has grown into a range of travel and rest products. The original still looks like wearing a beanbag on your head.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Revives classic playthings and makes the NeeDoh squishy line, which comes in a growing catalogue of textures and fillings for stress-squeezing. Also known for tin toys and stretchy hand puppets.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A Portland sock company making bright, strange crew socks, knee-highs and slipper socks since 2004, with many designs carrying a visual pun. It runs an annual design contest for outside artists.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A New York-based speed cube and puzzle store supplying beginners and world champions alike, with its own tuning and lubricant lines. It is where competitive cubers buy and modify their hardware.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Thai design brand making playful household objects, often animal-shaped, with a stated sustainability angle. Items include desk organisers, hooks and containers that hide a small visual joke.

Party Novelties

A large toy company behind impulse and novelty lines including Bunch O Balloons, 5 Surprise capsule toys and Mini Brands miniature grocery collectibles. Built around fast, surprise-driven play.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Inventors of the Fidget Cube, the six-sided clicker-switch-and-dial block that became one of the biggest crowdfunding hits of its year. Also sells spinners and licensed Marvel and DC versions.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Designs and sells pop-culture collectibles, above all the big-headed Pop! vinyl figures that now cover essentially every licence in existence. Also makes plush, apparel and personalised Pops.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A speedcube manufacturer operating since 2014, making magnetised competition cubes and Bluetooth smart cubes that track your solves. Its cubes are standard equipment for world-record holders.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes round, oversized plush animals and objects designed purely for hugging, including a steady run of strange ones like plague doctors and cryptids. Many designs come from community voting.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

The yo-yo company that has carried the name since 1929 and made it a generic term for the toy. Its range runs from beginner throws to competition models, plus spin tops and other skill toys.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes enamel pins, keychains and charms built around pop-culture properties from games, anime and music, with frequent licensed drops. It helped turn the enamel pin into a fashion accessory.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A kendama brand producing its own models, strings, accessories and apparel, pitched around hand-eye coordination practice. It sponsors players and releases signature and limited-run designs.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A design studio specialising in kitchen gadgets with a character twist, like the Nessie ladle and spaghetti monster strainer. Each tool does a real job while looking like a small creature.

Party Novelties

A toy and game company whose brands include 5 Second Rule, Colorforms, Fashion Plates and the Ann Williams craft kits. It leans on reviving recognisable classics alongside new party games.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Publishes brainteaser and logic puzzles across difficulty levels, from metal disentanglement puzzles to wooden boxes that will not open. The range is aimed at desks and gift shops equally.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A clock that spells the time out in words on a grid of letters, lighting only the ones you need. The German design house makes wall and table versions in a range of finishes and languages.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A global toy designer and marketer that owns a shelf of classic and novelty brands, reissuing recognisable playthings alongside new items. It specialises in nostalgia-driven impulse toys.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Produces meticulously researched infographic posters that chart everything from beer styles to literary movements to spacecraft. The appeal is obsessive completeness rendered as wall art.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Hamburg design label that blends product design with storytelling to give ordinary objects an unexpected twist. Its lines cover playful housewares, drinking accessories and gift items.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Makes miniature playable retro gaming devices: Micro Players that are tiny working arcade cabinets, joystick players and pocket handhelds, licensed from PAC-MAN, Atari, Tetris and Sonic.

Party Novelties

A UK maker of officially licensed movie and gaming merchandise, including TUBBZ collectible rubber ducks styled as game and film characters. Also produces apparel, lamps and desk items.