List of minor toys
This is a list of toys that minors play with. The highest concentration of such toys can be found in Baby Einstein.
The Toy Where You Become The Giant Train Driver
This blue tank engine, a mimic of Thomas the Tank Engine, has a crane in tow. Perhaps this could be a maintenance of way train, given how incomplete the railway is. Luckily, you get to complete this wooden railway. Knock on wood!
Some tracks and trains perfectly emulate the real things, attracting railfans from across the globe. Many times, Schrödinger's tracks come with their own ballast, further adding to the realism. HO scale, 87 times smaller than the original, is the most widely distributed standard. The largest herd can be found in Hamburg, Germany, though Flemington, New Jersey, with its own toothpick farm, is a close second.
The Toy Where You Push The Wooden Train Back And Forth Until You Are Satisfied
A subvariant of The Toy Where You Become The Giant Train Driver, this specimen ditches the adjustable tracks to go fully off-road. Despite this apparent newfound freedom, it is unfortunately forever doomed to never go anywhere, only oscillating forward and backward with no net displacement. With these statistics preventing delivery of passengers and liquid chemicals from the tank car, the train becomes meaningless.
The Toy Where You Crank The Gears
Spin and torque play a central role in this 3-dimensional gear train. These colourful cogs in the rainbow machine have famously sinusoidal teeth, making them milder towards children.
The Toy Where You Guide The Ball On An Amazing Adventure
Balls have been famously known to roll, but can thry jump through hoops, navigate a labyrinth, and even do a balancing act over a float of hungry crocodiles? You bet! In fact, it's even better when you put two levels together, as it becomes half of an entire world. The orange DLC adds the likes of a slingshot into a funnel and a halfpipe.
The Toy Where You Move The Beads Along The Colored Wires
Notorious for its ambiguous win state. Experts suggest the goal may be to move every bead along every track, but this view has been criticized for missing the nuance in how the toy is often played, and fails to take into account the varying shapes and colors of the beads as well as the shapes of the tracks. Proponents of this view say that the shapes of the tracks are merely there to add challenge and do not affect the direction of play beyond that. This response is criticized for being wrong.
The Toy Where You Ride The Horse At The End Of The Stick
Originating in the mud age, the head part of the horse (animal) was recycled into this exhilarating piece of content. It is, however, a quite sinister thing, yes. For the toy cannot move on its own, instead leeching its rider for their energy to propel itself forward. In most cases, the rider is content with this exchange, as they get a hoot of a time by the end of it.
The Toy Where You Rock The Nested Wire Circles Back And Forth
This toy, decked out in an all-silver phenotype, works like a swing, using kinetic and potential energy, aided by the powers of electromagnetism, to propel itself and bust some moves. And like a swing, you push it.
The Toy Where You Rotate The Spinner And It Produces The Sound Of The Corresponding Animal
Notable for its prominent appearance in the hit show FOSSIL. Animals in this petting zoo include sheep, dogs, ducks, frogs, horses, coyotes, roosters, pigs, cows, birds, cats, and turkeys. Legend has it if you hit a frame perfect you can unlock the hidden option: "the human says..." and what it says has been left out to avoid spoilers! It is, however, rumoured to utter out a Wilhelm scream, but this is yet to be confirmed.
The Toy Where You Stack The Concentric Colored Discs Onto The Central Pole
One of the more physically demanding toys, this challenge is conceptually quite simple. Starting with the biggest ring at the bottom, you must work your way up to the smallest ring, threading the pole through the corresponding hole at the center of each element. In some cases, such as pictured here, there may be a Special Level to the toy, where a ball is used to cap off. This provides visual clarity and resolution to the process, such that no further discs could ever conceivably be added on. This has, thus, been excluded in some modern kits, as leaving the ending ambiguous allows for future installations in the series, turning the toy into a "forever franchise".
The Toy Where You Smoke Actual Fucking Tobacco In A Pipe Except It's Bubbles
There is nothing stopping the bubbles from not also being made out of tobacco.
Reception
KidsReviewToys called these toys "pretty good".