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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. 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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The Sega Pico, also known as Kids Computer Pico, is an educational video game console by Sega Toys. The Pico was released in June 1993 in Japan and November 1994 in North America and Europe, later reaching China in 2002.

Marketed as "edutainment", the main focus of the Pico was educational video games for children between 3 and 7 years old. Releases for the Pico were focused on education for children and included titles supported by licensed franchised animated characters, including Sega's own Sonic the Hedgehog series. (Full article...)

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Image 11970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)
Image 2Constri (from Construction set)
Image 3A bead maze (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 5Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 6A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 7Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 8Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set)
Image 9Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 10A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 11Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 12Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 13Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 14A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 15A young boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 16A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 17Interlocking disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 18Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 19Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 20A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 21A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 22Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 23Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 24Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 25Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 26A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 27Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 28Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 29Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors. (from Construction set)

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A rubber duck is a toy shaped like a stylised yellow-billed duck, and it is generally yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic. The yellow rubber duck has achieved an iconic status in Western pop culture and is often symbolically linked to bathing. Various novelty variations of the toy are produced.

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... that Taylor Swift released a demo containing lyrics that were trimmed from the final version of her song "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"?
... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
... 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 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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Sub-projects: Board and table games • G.I. Joe • Lego • My Little Pony • Transformers

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