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Urban vinyl is a type of designer toy, featuring action figures in particular which are usually made of vinyl.Although the term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term designer toy, [6] it is more accurately used as a modifier: not all designer toys can be considered urban vinyl, while urban vinyl figures are necessarily designer toys, by virtue of how they are produced.
The concept of the Thingmaker was introduced in 1963, as part of Mattel's Vac-U-Maker set. This omnibus toy combined the new moulds and Plasti-Goop technology with the existing Vac-U-Form machine, a vacuum forming toy, which molded simple sculptures by heating thin sheets of plastic, then using a vacuum pump to form the softened plastic over hard plastic forms.
The Toy Town Museum is located on the Fisher-Price campus in East Aurora, New York.It was conceived by a group of local citizens in East Aurora and Western New York to help celebrate the toy making heritage in the area.
Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure that was first sold in 1976 by Kenner. [1]It looks like a short muscular man with blond hair wearing black trunks, but can be stretched from its normal size of about 15 inches (38 cm) to four to five feet (120 to 150 cm).
Action Man is an action figure launched in Britain in 1966 by Palitoy as a licensed copy of Hasbro's American "movable fighting man", G.I. Joe.. Action Man was originally produced and sold in the United Kingdom and Australia by Palitoy Ltd of Coalville, Leicestershire from 1966 until 1984.
Play-Doh or also known as Play-Dough is a modeling compound for young children to make arts and crafts projects. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. [1]
Despite the problems, the team manage to get the bike to complete a full lap of the circuit before the opening of the 2013 TT race, with Clarke celebrating success in traditional style. [29] [30] [31]
Children in Laos playing with Tinkertoy sets. The construction set was designed in 1914—six years after Frank Hornby's Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois, to manufacture them.