Abstract: A recovery and storage device suitable for picking up children's toys and placing them in a storage container has an appearance of a novelty animal, primarily an elephant, including an anatomical frame member with a vacuum motor integrated with a vacuum housing including a flexible hose, which picks up the toys through the flexible hose and directs the toys through the vacuum housing to a chute, where the toys are deposited in a removable storage bin, the device having several safety features which are suited to deter use by small children, requiring an adult or older child to operate the device. The removable storage bins may be placed on a shelf when full and replace with an empty removable storage bin, segregating toys by lot and kind.