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The Magic Horn Toy Theatre

The Magic Horn or Sleeping Beauty in the Wood ‘A play you can play to help save the day’ is a push out and slot together theatre to make and play. Be director, performer, audience member in the Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop 21st Century interactive version of Sleeping Beauty for all the family. “Who will defeat…

Fourpenny Theatre

A magnificent and fanciful stage front originally designed by Victorian toy theatre publisher W.G.Webb from the archive of Peter Baldwin. This paper theatre to cut out and make, complete with boxes for your audience, orchestra pit and a curtain from Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop. Beautifully presented in a printed envelope with name plate. The Fourpenny Theatre comes…

Music Box

A hand crank music box from Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop. Turn the handle and remind yourself of a visit to Covent Garden with a music box rendition of Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’. Theatre and music combine in a miniature box decorated with a Pollock’s Theatre.

Pantomime Theatre with Cinderella

One of our best selling theatres, this Pantomime Toy Theatre is a timeless classic. Complete with all the characters, scenery and script to stage the classic tale of pantomime favourite Cinderella, you can ensure that she does get to the ball. As no cutting or gluing are required, with each piece simply pushed straight from…

Wooden Pollock’s Theatre Model with Characters

A charming decorative Pollock’s Theatre in fret-worked wood. Hand made in Italy for us this theatre is a reproduction of the Neptune Theatre and comes with individual London characters from an original Pollock’s play that can be moved around the stage with a scene of London shops from Victorian Times. This model is intended as a…

Magnetic Play Theatre

Expand young imaginations with this delightful magnetic toy theatre. Super easy to use and assemble, it is constructed from sturdy card and wood to include characters, reversible side-wings and backdrop. Once ready slide the actors around the stage for hours of creative fun! A fully playable wooden toy theatre. This is a traditional toy made…

Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop Pop-Up Card

Bringing Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop to life, Claire Fletcher’s illustrations feature our iconic red door and the window arches of Covent Garden’s market building. It’s filled with theatrical and storybook characters who populate our shelves and it folds flat for mailing. With a Harlequin and Colombine large message tag it is a wonderful reminder of your…

Gaspard the Fox Plush Toy

Handsome Gaspard the Fox with his quality plush fur and his distinctive torn right ear is an endearing keepsake or comforting bedtime companion for years to come. Gaspard is the star of the best-selling series of children’s books by Zeb Soanes and the award-winning illustrator James Mayhew. Acclaimed for their warmth and humour, the stories celebrate…

Shakespeare’s Toy Theatre with Midsummer Night’s Dream

Recreate one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays in your own home… This inventive model of London’s Elizabethan theatre is easy to build, with all the Midsummer Night’s Dream characters and scenery pushed out of the book, ready to perform the script. An wonderful gift for aspiring thespians, and potential producers! No cutting or glueing needed.

Pollock’s Theatre Diorama Card

Based on one of Pollock’s oldest toy theatres, on opening the envelope, this enchanting card pops-up into a 3-dimensional scene from Harlequin and Colombine. Perfect as a gift, for theatrical invitations and first night wishes. Please note that we have improved the card in the latest reprint so that it differs slightly than the image. It does…

The Little Mischiefs and the Gang Book

The third book by best friend to the shop Eileen Lam who is known to her fans as Dolly Treasures. If you have seen Eileen’s window displays at Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop or listened to her on our podcast ‘Holding Up the Queue’ then you will definitely want to see the gang of Little Mischiefs in…

The Little Mischiefs – Up to no Good

The second book by best friend to the shop Eileen Lam who is known to her fans as Dolly Treasures. If you have seen Eileen’s window displays at Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop or listened to her on our podcast ‘Holding Up the Queue’ then you will definitely want to see the gang of Little Mischiefs in…