Portal:Toys
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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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"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 95th episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 1994. Lisa challenges the Malibu Stacy dollmakers to make a less sexist doll. With Malibu Stacy's original creator, Stacy Lovell, Lisa creates the doll Lisa Lionheart to positively influence young girls.
The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. Its plot was inspired by the Teen Talk Barbie doll, which "spoke" short phrases stereotypical of a middle-class American teenager. Kathleen Turner guest stars as Lovell. (Full article...)
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Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
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Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
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A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys) -
A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
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Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
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Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
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 in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
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A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
Constri (from Construction set) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
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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 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 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 the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
- ... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ...that antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s?
- ...that The Lego Group produced 381 million tires (example pictured) in 2011, making it the largest tire manufacturer in the world?
- ...that Silly Bandz, popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?
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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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