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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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Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982.
The doll brand set every toy industry sales record for three years running, and was one of the most popular lines of children's licensed products in the 1980s and has become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. Additional Cabbage Patch products include children's apparel, bedding, infants' wear, record albums and board games. (Full article...)
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Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (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) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (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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Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
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Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
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An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
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A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
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A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution. Puzzles are often contrived as a form of entertainment, but they can also stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems — in such cases, their successful resolution can be a significant contribution to mathematical research.
Did you know...
- ... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ... that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
- ... that the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling?
- ... that Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
- ... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
- ... that antique bisque dolls (pictured) are collectible, and dolls from French companies like Jumeau can be worth over US$20,000?
- ...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 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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