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2. Wind-up toy - Wikipedia

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   The trend stopped with the introduction of the small and inexpensive Alkaline battery in the 1960s, which allowed motors to run without a wind-up mechanism. Over the next 20 years, wind-up toys lost popularity. [citation needed] Plastic wind-ups started in 1977 when the Japanese company Tomy made a walking Robot (Rascal Robot).

3. J. Chein & Company - Wikipedia

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   Walking, crawling or jumping figural wind-up toys became a mainstay; their coin banks were also consistently popular. In 1926, Julius Chein was killed in a horse-riding accident in Central Park . Control of the company passed to Chein's widow who then turned the management of it over to her brother, Samuel Hoffman, who was already the founder ...

4. Wind-up doll joke - Wikipedia

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   Wind-up doll jokes (or simply doll jokes) is a series of jokes in which an imagined wind-up doll of a well known person (a show business or sports celebrity or a politician) acts in a way supposedly peculiar to this person. [1] [2] An example is given in the biography of Miles Davis by John Szwed. Miles had a habit to walk to the back of the ...

5. Wind-up toy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   A wind-up toy is a toy powered by a clockwork motor. It can also refer to: Wind-up doll joke, a type of joke that imagines a celebrity as a wind-up toy; Wind Up Toys, a 2007 album by Capdown; Wind-Up Toy, a 1991 song by Alice Cooper

6. Gund - Wikipedia

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   It had wheels that operated a working duck bill which moved up and down as the wheels turned. The ride-on duck was produced by Gund for approximately 10 years commencing in 1912. [7] Gund also secured many other patents for toys such as the wind-up walking plush, dancing toys, and walking toys. [6]

7. Cymbal-banging monkey toy - Wikipedia

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   When activated it repeatedly bangs its cymbals together and, in some cases, bobs its head, chatters, screeches, grins, and more. There are both traditional wind-up versions and updated battery-operated cymbal-banging monkeys. The cymbal-banging monkey toy is an example of singerie and kitsch.