"Potter" puts model trains back on track
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Sales of model trains are picking up steam again thanks to deals linking them to the "Harry Potter" and "The Polar Express" movies, along with a new approach to marketing the old-fashioned toys.
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EMMELOORD, Netherlands  - Motorists nostalgic for  the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept  garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady  days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.
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Wallace and Gromit, the quirky plasticine stars of British cinema, are on the comeback trail.
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As the Harry Potter series wraps up this summer, we can look back at two remarkable narratives: Potter the boy wizard and Potter the cultural phenomenon.
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Longer, faster hi-tech trains are planned to end delays and overcrowding.
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Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen.
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Harry Potter is all grown up. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's best-sellers, sheds his magician's robes &#151; and everything else &#151; for his West End stage debut as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
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Lev Grossman looks at J.K. Rowling's loose ends and why the book's closing chapter might leave a few Harry Potter fans unsatisfied
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Author J.K. Rowling says that writing the last of her seven Harry Potter books is proving to be "fun in a way that it hasn't been before."
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Cedar Fair's new coaster is both early and late.
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A cartoon classic from the 1960âs gets a makeover to suit  the tastes of 21st-Century kids.
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Lionel LLC, a maker of model trains for more than 100 years, has filed for bankruptcy protection after a US jury found the company used designs for toy locomotives stolen from a rival.
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Imagine âFamily Guyâ with an espionage subplot and a big dose of magical realism, and you have âPhineas and Ferb,â Disneyâs new animated childrenâs series.
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U.S. toy makers may have trotted out a laughing Elmo, a life-sized miniature pony and a digital camera for 3-year-olds this year, but the new products may not be enough to pull the industry out of a slump.
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Wallace and Gromit, the quirky  plasticine stars of British cinema, are on the comeback trail.
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More trains will run across south Wales and to London as part of a revamp of rail timetables from Sunday.
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Network Rail, the owner of the UK rail infrastructure, announces a move back into profit and a reduction in rail delays.