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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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Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise takes place in a shared universe in which humans co-exist with creatures known as Pokémon, a large variety of species endowed with special powers. The franchise's target audience is children aged 5 to 12, but it is known to attract people of all ages.

The franchise originated as a pair of role-playing games developed by Game Freak, from an original concept by its founder, Satoshi Tajiri. Released on the Game Boy on February 27, 1996, the games became sleeper hits and were followed by manga series, a trading card game, and anime series and films. From 1998 to 2000, Pokémon was exported to the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented global phenomenon dubbed "Pokémania". By 2002, the craze had ended, after which Pokémon became a fixture in popular culture, with new products being released to this day. In the summer of 2016, the franchise spawned a second craze with the release of Pokémon Go, an augmented reality game developed by Niantic. Pokémon has since been estimated to be the world's highest-grossing media franchise and one of the best-selling video game franchises. (Full article...)

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

Image 1A peg wooden doll from Val Gardena, 1850 (from List of wooden toys)
Image 2Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
₆₀ Fullerene. (from Construction set)
Image 3Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 4A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys)
Image 5A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 6A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys)
Image 7Wooden unit blocks, a type of toy block, in a wooden wagon (from List of wooden toys)
Image 8A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 9An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games)
Image 10A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
Image 11Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum)
Image 12A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys)
Image 13Constri (from Construction set)
Image 14Detail 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 15Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys)
Image 16Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 17Zometool model of the great grand stellated 120-cell (from Construction set)
Image 18Kondapalli Toys (from List of wooden toys)
Image 19Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors. (from Construction set)
Image 201970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set)
Image 21A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys)
Image 22Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set)
Image 23Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 24Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys)
Image 25Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set)
Image 26Fischertechnik computing with a C64 interface (from Construction set)
Image 27Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 28Toy Museum - http://www.raheelpatel.com/toymuseum.html. (from Toy museum)
Image 29Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games)
Image 30Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games)

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A rubber duck is a toy shaped like a stylised yellow-billed duck, and it is generally yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic. The yellow rubber duck has achieved an iconic status in Western pop culture and is often symbolically linked to bathing. Various novelty variations of the toy are produced.

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Did you know...

... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
... 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 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 Korean brick toys, colloquially called "Korean Lego", often feature themes of "war and danger", including sets such as military vehicles?

...that The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy?

...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?

...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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