The toy is estimated to go for £3,000-£5,000 at the auction on 26 July. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. A stretch toy figure of a Marvel character, said to ...

A stretch figure of Marvel character the Hulk, said to be “one of the rarest stretch toys in existence”, is to go under the hammer at auction. Excalibur Auctions said the toy is one of only 30 known ...

(AP Photo/Helena Alves) It’s a “celebration of energy, a celebration of what the city of Porto is,” resident Joao Sousa said, moments after being clubbed with a toy hammer.

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking ...

Tourists took part in festivities, too. Helni Turtaea, a 21-year-old from Finland, said the hammer hitting startled her at first but she quickly saw its charm.

In the 1960s, a local businessman introduced the playful plastic hammer, which has since become the most famous symbol of the Iberian city's raucous summer solstice celebration. It's a “celebration of ...

People rest their plastic hammers on a wall while watching flying lanterns soaring above the Douro river as the northern Portugal city of Porto, gears up to celebrate Saint John feast, Monday ...

It's a “celebration of energy, a celebration of what the city of Porto is,” resident Joao Sousa said, moments after being clubbed with a toy hammer.

On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking friends and strangers alike with toy hammers ...

The festival's essence lies in having the freedom to use a plastic hammer on friends and strangers without starting a fight. Not even Portugal's Prime Minister Luís Montenegro was spared.