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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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Various Hot Wheels toy vehicles

A model car, or toy car, is a miniature representation of an automobile. Other miniature motor vehicles, such as trucks, buses, or even ATVs, etc. are often included in this general category. Because many miniature vehicles were originally aimed at children as playthings, there is no precise difference between a model car and a toy car, yet the word 'model' implies either assembly required or the accurate rendering of an actual vehicle at smaller scale. The kit building hobby became popular through the 1950s, while the collecting of miniatures by adults started to gain momentum around 1970. Precision-detailed miniatures made specifically for adults are a significant part of the market since the mid-1980s.^{[page needed]}

The scope of the vehicles involved in the hobby, according to Louis Heilbroner Hertz author of The Complete Book of Building and Collecting Model Automobiles, encompasses "ordinary or stock automobiles, racing cars ([...]), buses, trucks, specialized service vehicles (especially fire engines), military vehicles, including such equipment as self-propelled gun carriers and mobile rocket launchers; construction equipment, including bulldozers and road rollers, tractors and related farm equipment; mobile showmen's engines, customized automobiles, hot rods, dragsters, the recently popular so-called 'funny cars', early self-propelled road carriages, and so on." (Full article...)

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

Image 1Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 2Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 3A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 4Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ Fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 5A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 6Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum)
Image 7Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 8Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 9Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set)
Image 10Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 11A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 12Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 13An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 14Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 15Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors. (from Construction set)
Image 16Constri (from Construction set)
Image 17Detail 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 18Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 19A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 20A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
Image 21Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 22Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 23Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 24Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 25A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 26Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 27A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 28A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 29Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 301970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)

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A construction set is a set of standardized pieces that allow for the construction of a variety of different models. The pieces avoid the lead time of manufacturing custom pieces, and of requiring special training or design time to construct complex systems.

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 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 "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?

... that antique bisque dolls (pictured) are collectible, and dolls from French companies like Jumeau can be worth over US$20,000?

...that fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?