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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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Play-Doh is a modeling compound for young children to make arts and crafts projects. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. Play-Doh was then reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in 1956 and prominent department stores opened retail accounts.
Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales. Since its launch on the toy market in the mid-1950s, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as the Fun Factory. (Full article...)General images -
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Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
Constri (from Construction set) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys) -
A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
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Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
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A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
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) -
A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum) -
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
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Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
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Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
A bauernroulette game (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 before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
- ... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
- ... 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 development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
- ...that a 1950s Annalee Doll was auctioned off for a record $6,000 in 1992?
- ...that the Love Tester, created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?
- ...that as of 1981, New York City's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States?
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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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