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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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Lego (/ˈlɛɡoʊ/ ^ⓘ LEG-oh, Danish: [ˈle̝ːko]; stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions.

The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Moulding is done in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico, and China. Brick decorations and packaging are done at plants in the former three countries and in the Czech Republic. Annual production of the bricks averages approximately 36 billion, or about 1140 elements per second. One of Europe's biggest companies, Lego is the largest toy manufacturer in the world by sales. , 600 billion Lego parts had been produced. Films, games competitions, and eight Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various toy-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 2Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 3Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 4A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 5Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 6Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 7Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 8Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 9A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
Image 101970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)
Image 11Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 12Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 13Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum)
Image 14Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors. (from Construction set)
Image 15Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 16Detail 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 17A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 18An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 19A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 20Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 21Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 22Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 23A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 24Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ Fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 25A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 26Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 27A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 28Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 29Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set)
Image 30Constri (from Construction set)

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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.

Did you know...

... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
... that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
... that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
... 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 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 akuaba are dolls, traditionally carried on the backs of Ghanaian women who want to conceive?

...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 Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom?

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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 • Transformers • My Little Pony

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