Portal:Toys
The Toys Portal
.jpg)
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...)
Selected article -
Bionicle Heroes is a 2006 video game published by Eidos Interactive and TT Games Publishing and based on Lego's Bionicle line of constructible action figures. The game was released in November 2006 on PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, GameCube, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS; a Nintendo Wii version was later released in April 2007. The home console and PC versions were developed by Traveller's Tales, while Amaze Entertainment developed the handheld versions. A version of the game for mobile phones, developed by Universomo, was also released. The home console and PC versions of the game are third-person shooters, while the Game Boy Advance version is a run 'n' gun shoot 'em up and the Nintendo DS version is a first-person shooter. The story of Bionicle Heroes, where the player seeks to liberate the island of Voya Nui and its inhabitants from the villainous Piraka, is not canon to the official Bionicle story.
Development for Bionicle Heroes began in 2005. Initially, the home console version was set to be a first-person shooter, but concerns over the game's potential Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rating led it to be shifted to a third-person perspective. The Nintendo DS version marked the first first-person shooter released on the platform since Metroid Prime Hunters earlier that year. The home console version received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the humour but found the gameplay to be simplistic and repetitive. The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions received more favorable reviews, being compared favorably to the Contra series and Metroid Prime Hunters, respectively. (Full article...)
General images -
-
A ball-in-a-maze puzzle (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) -
An infant boy playing with a toy dump truck at the beach. (from Boys' toys and games) -
-
-
-
1970s No. 2 Meccano set (from Construction set) -
A matryoshka doll taken apart (from List of wooden toys) -
A girl in Udaipur playing "Jungle Child" (from Girls' toys and games) -
Constri (from Construction set) -
-
Lego bricks are a construction set example. (from Construction set) -
-
Paintings of girl with dolls (from Girls' toys and games) -
Rows of pink girls' toys in a Canadian store, 2011 (from Girls' toys and games) -
Various spinning tops (from List of wooden toys) -
A puzzle of dexterity, a type of mechanical puzzle (from List of wooden toys) -
Burr puzzles (from List of wooden toys) -
Girls assembling a puzzle (from Girls' toys and games) -
A bauernroulette game (from List of wooden toys) -
Girls playing in a park in the Netherlands (from Girls' toys and games) -
Interlocking Disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C
60 Fullerene. (from Construction set) -
Hello Kitty Dreamcast set, 2009 (from Girls' toys and games) -
A gee-haw whammy diddle in use (from List of wooden toys) -
Jeujura wooden construction set (Swiss chalet) (from Construction set) -
Tartu Toy Museum (from Toy museum) -
-
Girls in Barbie Fashion Show in Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from Girls' toys and games) -
A bead maze (from List of wooden toys)
_-_WGA3349.jpg)
Selected image
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.
Did you know...
- ... that "Toy Town" was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
- ... that crab is served in school meals in Toyama Prefecture?
- ... 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 Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
- ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
- ...that akabeko (pictured), red cow toys from the Aizu region of Japan, are believed to ward off disease?
- ...that the Love Tester, created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?
- ...that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?
Subcategories
Related portals
Topics
| By type | |
|---|---|
| Industry | |
| Organizations | |
| Related topics | |
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
WikiProjects
- Parent projects
- Arts • Entertainment • Visual arts • Games
- Main project
- Toys
- Sub-projects
- Board and table games • G.I. Joe • Transformers • My Little Pony
- Related Projects
- Animation • Anime and manga • Biography • Comics • Film • Fictional characters • Media franchises • Music • Television • Video games
Things you can do
edit · history · watch · purge
 |
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
|
Associated Wikimedia
The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:
-
Commons
Free media repository -
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals -
Wikidata
Free knowledge base -
Wikinews
Free-content news -
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations -
Wikisource
Free-content library -
Wikiversity
Free learning tools -
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus
