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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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Merrythought is a toy manufacturing company established in 1930 in the United Kingdom. The company specialises in soft toys, especially teddy bears. Merrythought has handmade traditional teddy bears in the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England since 1930.
The company's site in Ironbridge has a small museum and shop open to the public, and is where the toys are made. The site is a former iron foundry building on the banks of the River Severn, less than half a mile (0.7 km) upstream from the world-famous Iron Bridge itself. The vicinity is known as Dale End, lying at the bottom of the Coalbrookdale valley, and falls within the wider Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site. (Full article...)
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Various spinning tops (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 playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
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1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
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Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
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A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys) -
A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
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Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
Interlocking disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
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Constri (from Construction set) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
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A bead maze (from List of wooden toys) -
A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (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 Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?
- ... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
- ... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
- ... 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 "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
- ...that antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s?
- ...that the first themed Lego Modular Houses set, released in April 2007, was designed for people aged 16 and older and meant to be "toys for adults"?
- ...that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?
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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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