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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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Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer and holding company of retailers that was founded in 1900 and operated for more than 120 years. It started as an electrical novelties company. Lionel specialized in various products throughout its existence. Toy trains and model railroads were its main claim to fame. Lionel trains have been produced since 1900, and their trains were admired by model railroaders around the world for the solidity of their construction and the authenticity of their detail. During its peak years in the 1950s, the company sold $25 million worth of trains per year.
In 1969, the company sold their model train lines to General Mills. It continued to operate until 1993 as a holding company for their toy stores. In 2006, Lionel's electric train became the first electric toy inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The model trains are still in production as Lionel, LLC. (Full article...)General images -
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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) -
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
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Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
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1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
Constri (from Construction set) -
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Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
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A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum) -
Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
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An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
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A dollhouse is a toy home, made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults. The term dollhouse is common in the United States and Canada. In UK the terms dolls' house or dollshouse are used.
Did you know...
- ... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
- ... that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
- ... that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
- ... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ... 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 before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
- ...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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