I have a box of broken ones and no idea how to actually get rid of them. Like, can you throw them out with your normal household waste or what? I’ve got almost 12 years worth of dead or damaged stuff and no idea what to do with them!
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Ha, that’s a fun one. Really it depends what they are. Non-electrical items (or battery-powered with no batteries in them)? Unfortunately yes. they do usually land up in landfill. Anything rechargeable should technically be recycled, and in England, you run the risk of a fine if your battery-powered boyfriend should start a waste lorry fire because you threw it in general waste instead. Also, rome recycling firms are just generally finicky. Here in Bristol, for example, I’ve had bags of clothes left, even if they were left folded over but not tied, as requested. Understandably you don’t want your old friend left out looking sad and abandoned, wrapped in plastic and left in a kerbside collection bin. So what to do with them? To be honest, your guess is as good as mine 
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If they were electric toys, battery operated or rechargeable, they need to go a the small electrical section of your local tip.
You can simply bag them, and dump the bag in the correct skip and go home.
Everything else can be binned. I suppose scrap metal merchant might accept steel toys…… 
Glass toys can be recycled either, they just want glass jar/bottles.
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