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A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment. Simple examples include toy blocks, board games, and dolls. Toys are often designed for use by children, although many are designed specifically for adults and pets. Toys can provide utilitarian benefits, including physical exercise, cultural awareness, or academic education. Additionally, utilitarian objects, especially those which are no longer needed for their original purpose, can be used as toys. Examples include children building a fort with empty cereal boxes and tissue paper spools, or a toddler playing with a broken TV remote control. The term "toy" can also be used to refer to utilitarian objects purchased for enjoyment rather than need, or for expensive necessities for which a large fraction of the cost represents its ability to provide enjoyment to the owner, such as luxury cars, high-end motorcycles, gaming computers, and flagship smartphones.
Playing with toys can be an enjoyable way of training young children for life experiences. Different materials like wood, clay, paper, and plastic are used to make toys. Newer forms of toys include interactive digital entertainment and smart toys. Some toys are produced primarily as collectors' items and are intended for display only. (Full article...)
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Hot Wheels is an American media franchise and brand of scale model cars invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on May 18, 1968. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until Mattel bought Matchbox owner Tyco Toys in 1997.
Many automobile manufacturers have since licensed Hot Wheels to make scale models of their cars, allowing the use of original design blueprints and detailing. Although Hot Wheels were originally intended to be children's toys, they have become popular with adult collectors, for whom limited edition models are now made available. (Full article...)
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A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
Constri (from Construction set) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
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Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
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Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
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A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
Detail from Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1560), showing Flemish girls playing popular games of the era (from Girls' toys and games) -
A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
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A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
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A teddy bear formerly owned by Kermit Roosevelt, thought to be made by Michtom, early 1900s; Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, 2012
Did you know...
- ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
- ... that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
- ... that the case Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. was considered essential to the future of video game modding in the United States in 1992?
- ... that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
- ... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
- ...that the red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times?
- ...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
- ...that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom?
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Types: • Doll • Vehicle • Puzzle • Teddy bear
Industry: • American Specialty Toy Retailing Association • Birmingham toy industry • International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers • Kiddicraft • Play value • Toy safety • Toy store • Toyetic • Wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains
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