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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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A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833. The definitive version of the zoetrope, with replaceable film picture film strips, was introduced as a toy by Milton Bradley in 1866 and became very successful. (Full article...)

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

Image 1A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
Image 2Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 3Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 4Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 5An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 6Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 7A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 8Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set)
Image 9Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 10Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 11Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 12Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 131970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)
Image 14Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum)
Image 15Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 16Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 17Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ Fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 18Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 19A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 20A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 21Detail 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 22Constri (from Construction set)
Image 23A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 24Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 25A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 26Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 27Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors. (from Construction set)
Image 28A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 29Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 30A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)

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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 before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
... that the Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius may have had an affinity for gambling?
... 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 design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?