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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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Microman (ミクロマン, Mikuroman) was a science fiction toyline created, manufactured and marketed by Takara Co., Ltd. from 1974 to 1984 as well as from 1998 to 2007. The Microman line was a series of 3.75-inch-tall (9.5 cm) action figures with accompanying vehicles, robots, playsets and accessories. Unlike other toylines at the time, Microman figures were marketed as being the "actual" size of cyborg beings called "Micros" that hailed from a fictional planet known as "Micro Earth" and disguised themselves as action figures while on planet Earth. (Full article...)

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Image 1A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 2A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 3A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 4Detail from Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1560), showing Flemish girls playing popular games of the era (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 5Constri (from Construction set)
Image 6A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 71970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)
Image 8An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 9Lego bricks are a prominent example of a construction set (from Construction set)
Image 10Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 11Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 12Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 13Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 14Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 15Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 16Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 17Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 18Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 19A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 20Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum)
Image 21A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 22A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
Image 23Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 24Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 25Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 26Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 27Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ Fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 28A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 29Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)

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Lincoln Logs is the name of a children's toy consisting of notched miniature logs, used to build miniature forts and buildings. They were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Lincoln Logs were inducted into the US National Toy Hall of Fame in 1999.

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... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
... that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
... 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 the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling?
... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?

...that akuaba are dolls, traditionally carried on the backs of Ghanaian women who want to conceive?

...that fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?

...that Tuttuki Bako players insert their finger 60 mm (2.4 in) into an electronic device to render images of that finger on an LCD screen?

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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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Main project: Toys

Sub-projects: Board and table games • G.I. Joe • Transformers • My Little Pony

Related Projects: Animation • Anime and manga • Biography • Comics • Film • Fictional characters • Media franchises • Music • Television • Video games

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