In fiction, especially works aimed at children or set in [[CloudCuckooLand worlds with a tenuous grip on sanity,]] it's not uncommon for toys and other inanimate objects to be depicted as having minds of their own. They can think, they can muse, they can ponder, they can [[RageAgainstTheHeavens rail at their arbitrary existence]] or gush about how perfect their lives are, and sometimes they can get up, move around and do things that you wouldn't expect them to do... [[TheMasquerade though only while no one's looking,]] in most cases.

Sometimes they're like little people, only shaped like teddy bears or [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster toasters]]; other times, they're prisoners of their plastic/fabric/metal bodies, totally incapable of doing anything but what their owner poses them to do. It doesn't matter if it's an action figure or a lawnmower or even an industrial washing machine: in a world of {{Living Toy}}s, anything is fair game.

Examples of levels 4, 5, 6 and sometimes 3 can exhibit a living toy version of FurryReminder.

A word of caution: if it's ''supposed'' to have a mind of its own via ArtificialIntelligence or AppliedPhlebotinum, it doesn't belong here. A {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} that can fit in your palm is still just a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}}, ''not'' a {{Living Toy|s}}.

SubTrope of SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism.
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!!'''Immobile, But Still Sentient'''

The toy has no capacity for movement, mechanical and electrical parts notwithstanding. Its life is shaped entirely by the people that play with it. As it must be a {{Living Toy|s}} to fall into this category, this toy is at least capable of an internal monologue. It may also be able to communicate with other toys through some sort of ill-explained "psychic" connection.

[[folder:Examples]]
* There are some RealLife examples, such as: a ventriloquist's dummy, a stuffed animal with intelligent eyes, or a doll, as all these behave as if they were alive with the help of human hands and voice.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasInTattertown'': This was Debbie's [[NurseryRhyme Little Miss Muffet]] doll before a mysterious book sucked them into the realm of Tattertown, where discarded items gain the ability to move and speak. Muffet is overjoyed to have this happen to her, since before landing in Tattertown, she had been immobile but still sentient. She had spent her days being stuffed by Debbie into new outfits and being made to sit at tea parties, helpless to protest or run away. As Miles, the saxophone who narrates the story, explains...
-->'''Miles:''' She was always dressing her up, sometimes just for fun. But ''her'' fun, not Muffet's.
%%* Happy Horse from ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''.
* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' has a couple of these.
** First of all is Shmee, though in JTHM, he is just a toy. However, in the spinoff series ''{{Squee}}'', Squee has a dream in which Shmee is alive and talks to Squee, saying that he is his "trauma-sponge" that works to free Squee of all his fears. And he does a, well, ''okay'' job...
** Native only to the original JTHM series, not any spinoffs, are the two Doughboys, Mr. Fuck/Mr. Eff and Psycho-Doughboy/D-boy. At first, you assume they only ''appear'' to speak due to Johnny's extreme imagination, but they actually have different personalities and goals. Mr. Fuck (ironically ''not'' the one with the word "fuck" written on him) wants Johnny to kill and use his victims' blood to keep the monster behind the wall at bay, thus giving the Doughboys more of the monster's power and sentience. Psycho-Doughboy instead wants Johnny dead so that he will stop giving them power and thus, both will die and stay inanimate. For a while, they become living beings and can move about, [[spoiler: even after Johnny's death,]] but this doesn't last.
%%* Stinky the skunk in ''[[http://thinks.com/family-fun/kim-and-jason.htm Kim & Jason]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'', you meet a junkyard of broken toys that were animated to fight in a great war. Now they're this. ''Legend of Mana'' [[AllThereInTheManual has a pretty nasty backstory if you check your library]], but [[AndIMustScream this is front and center, and probably the most disturbing part of the game]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', [[spoiler:the minifigures can initially only move when controlled by the humans. Subverted though, as Emmett does learn to move to some extent in "reality"]].
* The book ''Literature/TheMiraculousJourneyOfEdwardTulane'' is narrated by a China doll, Edward Tulane, as he describes the different owners he encounters (and the persons they assign him) after being lost by his original owner.
* This is implied to be the case for all toys and stuffed animals in ''{{VisualNovel/Nameless}} - The One Thing You Must Recall -'' and [[AndIMustScream is central to much of the pathos and horror surrounding the backstory]].
%%* Oz, of ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' fame began life as this.
%%* The Mane Six are transformed into this type in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' FanFic ''Fanfic/{{Plushy}}''.
%%* The dolls in most of Rumer Godden's children's books.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' are portrayed like this on Earth; the idea of the games is to use the toys on a "portal" to send them back home where they're fully living beings again.
* ''Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier'' in the original fairy tale, is a toy soldier who is self-aware and experiences everything that happens to him as if he himself were directing it, even though every indication is that he cannot actually move.
* Emily from ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' is expected to be psychic to ''some'' capacity, since the doll is only an outer shell for the Mimic, a device built for pilot-machine interface. Still, from her introduction on, she's shown to have mental capabilities outside the range of a regular Mimic, and she shares the senses and identity of the little alien girl, also named Emily. [[spoiler:It's stated later on, when you learn their backstory, that "Sara didn't link with that Mimic -- ''it'' linked with ''her''.]]
* Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit, before becoming real, could speak to other toys and once even spoke to a couple of real rabbits. However, he still fit this trope-- he was incapable of escaping from dangerous places, and he could never not sit on his hind legs.
* In ''Literature/HittyHerFirstHundredYears'', the doll "Hitty" (short for Mehitabel) tells of her adventures with several owners, all of whom retain her shift with her nickname embroidered on it and her coral necklace.
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!!'''Schrodinger's Toy'''

The toy is capable of moving on its own, [[TheMasquerade but can only do so while not being observed]]. [[AndIMustScream There may be a danger of it losing the ability to move forever if they get caught]].

[[folder:Examples]]
* The toys in Creator/EnidBlyton's ''Amelia Jane'' stories.
* In ''Film/TheChristmasToy'', all the toys can move by themselves, but if they get caught of place by their owners, they will be frozen forever. This is demonstrated when Ditz walks out the door and is caught by the mom, and when Mew is caught by the dad when heading back to the playroom. Luckily, they both come back to life with a song.
** Also its AlternateContinuity spinoff series, ''[[Series/TheSecretLifeOfToys The Secret Life of Toys]]''.
* The family of dolls in children's book ''The Dollhouse Caper'' immediately became inanimate when observed. This makes it difficult for them to warn their owners about the robbery plot they've accidentally overheard.
* This is the basis for the Doll Code in ''Literature/TheDollPeople''. If a human sees them move, or thinks they've seen them move, the doll becomes immobile for 24 hours.
* Possibly [[DemonicDummy Lil' Cal]] in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
* Emmet (and presumably all the other minifigures) in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', though he's only barely capable of independent motion once in the real world. In [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart the sequel]], [[spoiler: Emmet, Rex, and Lucy are all able to move in the real world, albeit in a choppy motion not unlike stop-motion]].
* The toys in the Russell Hoban book ''Literature/TheMouseAndHisChild'' and the film based on it.
* All of the toys in ''Literature/RaggedyAnn'', both the books and the animated movie.
** In ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', the toys ''seem'' to work like this, but it's hard to tell; one of the last shots of the movie shows the fantastical terrain the toys traveled over to be a mundane stretch of pavement with litter.
* The titular toy dog in ''Literature/{{Roverandom}}'' by Creator/JRRTolkien is sentient all the time, but can only move after midnight.
%%* The various types of Magical Gnomes in ''VideoGame/TheSims 3''.
%%* ''Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier'' in ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''.
%%* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[spoiler:[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E14FiveCharactersInSearchOfAnExit Five Characters in Search of an Exit]]]]".
* Creator/GeneWolfe's ''(The) War Beneath The Tree''. Supposedly, old toys self-destruct on Christmas night to make way for the new toys. The reality is somewhat more brutal.
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!!'''Toy Masquerade'''

The toy [[AnthropomorphicZigZag can switch between animate and inanimate]] at will, and may communicate with animals, babies, or generally anyone who can't ([[SecretKeeper or at least won't]]) betray their secret. [[TheMasquerade Such toys need to hide their sentience in the presence of older humans.]] The toys don't need to worry about being out of position, as humans will assume someone else moved them.

[[folder:Examples]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', toys are sentient and can move on their own, however the only other characters they talk to are pets and babies, and they pretend not to be sentient in front of everyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''. The cast mostly consists of appliances and household devices, but there's been at least one toy character in the trilogy.
** Though [[CoversAlwaysLie one cover for the DVD shows]] the main five Characters and the younger Master skipping down a [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz yellow road]] surrounded by twinkling stars and [[CoversAlwaysLie another one even showed]] Toaster high-fiving the Master!
* The Sandersons' toys in ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo'' are all alive, having been brought to life by aliens.
* The toys in the world of ''ComicBook/{{Dolltopia}}'' are tired of humans using them without consent. They can move freely around animals, though, as they have a cat who helps them out with their missions by giving them rides.
* The lawn ornaments in ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' fall under this category, sometimes freezing into positions that would compromise TheMasquerade when seen fighting.
* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' has a teddy bear you can buy from a traveling merchant. [[CreepyDoll Apparently it can blink and move when your character is not looking.]]
* In the kids' story ''The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll'', the eponymous tiny doll hides her sentience from everyone but the girl. Even when she got bored living with her original owner, she never moved in front of her.
* The toys in ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', who can only be understood by Truman and Noah. Johnny Crawfish is an exception, as he is an actual living animal.
* The title characters in the British cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/TheRaggyDolls'', dolls that live in the reject bin of a toy factory. Each had a minor defect that means they could not be sold and they spend their time forgotten in a bin having adventures. Unusually for this trope, with the exception of one VerySpecialEpisode referencing [[RippedFromTheHeadlines the plight of orphaned children in Romania]] of all things (ItsALongStory), TheMasquerade was a non-issue most of the time because they didn't really belong to anyone or spend much time interacting with humans or other toys.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretWorldOfBenjaminBear'': In the world of this series, [[Toys/TeddyBear Teddy Bears]] are alive and capable of movement, but one of their golden rules is that they can never move in front of humans (except [[SecretKeeper Miss Periwinkle]]). They have the ability to "go teddy" (render themselves immobile) to keep their secret from being exposed.
* Ted, a teddy bear [[spoiler:animated by the soul of a World War II airman]] in the ''Literature/TalesFromTheWyrdMuseum'' books, will only speak to the protagonist, Neil, or his little brother Josh (the latter he communicates with solely to manipulate Neil into helping him).
* The 1989 ''Teddy Bears' Picnic'' short film features teddy bears that are secretly alive and sneak out to attend a picnic. The two main bears willingly expose themselves to a little girl in order to help her, though this is against the rules and other teddy bears have to be convinced to un-freeze for her.
* In the short story ''Teddy Bear Tears'', the teddy bear can speak and even cry, yet doesn't walk back from the dump, where he was accidentally left, on his own lest the humans find out that he's sentient. He is, however, willing to speak to a fairy, who [[SwissArmyTears collects his tears]] and uses them to make his owner dream about him being at the dump.
* In the kids' story ''Literature/TheTinSoldier'', the toys are fully animate, but pretend to be inanimate in front of the humans. This backfires when the woman who lives with their owner melts two of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', except for that one scene in Sid's yard, when they deliberately break their rules [[LaserGuidedKarma in order to teach the sadistic kid a lesson]].
* Talky Tina from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E6LivingDoll Living Doll]]". She verbally threatens people, though no one sees her move on her own.
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!!'''"Imaginary" Friend'''

The toy is fully animate, [[WeirdnessCensor but observers will be unable to identify it as something other than an ordinary toy]]. Only certain members of a sentient species can see these toys for what they are, and those members will usually fail to convince others that the toy is anything more than an imaginary friend.

[[folder:Examples]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalShelf'': The toys move around and talk, but the only human they talk to is Timothy their owner.
* Barney from ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' is a doll that the children in the show imagine as an adult-sized dinosaur. According to the theme tune, he came from their imagination [[{{Tulpa}} but is now truly sentient]].
* Hobbes from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is either this, or a non-living toy that Calvin imagines as an anthropomorphic tiger. [[ShrugOfGod Even the creator is cagey about which he is]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CartoonAllStarsToTheRescue'' portrays Literature/WinnieThePooh this way. He talks to Corey and moves around, but everyone except for Corey, Smoke, and the other cartoon characters see him as Corey's plushie.
* Chucky from ''Film/ChildsPlay'' is this level (well, except for the "friend" part perhaps) for much of his movies, showing his real nature only to the boy and anyone he's [[CreepyDoll in the middle of killing]].
%%* The clown toy from ''TheClownStory''.
* The toys from the [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]] series ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins''. They come to life when around the titular Doc, but "go stuffed" when anyone else shows up on the scene, with rare exceptions. Also, it's Doc's special stethoscope which animates them.
%%* Screwy the baseball and Darling the baseball bat from ''WesternAnimation/EveryonesHero''.
* The dinosaurs in ''Literature/HarryAndHisBucketFullOfDinosaurs'' are sentient and their bucket leads to another dimension called Dino World, but only Harry himself, his friend Charley, and Nana know this. The others just think Harry is imagining his adventures. In addition, when a non-sentient toy is brought to Dino World, it will become sentient, yet the dinosaurs stay sentient and mobile even when not in Dino World.
* In the Norwegian children's book "Marens lille ugle" (Maren's Little Owl), the titular owl is a toy that's a curious mix of this and Shrodinger's Toy -- but overall probably closer to this level. While he can talk to his owner Maren, and they have many conversations, he never actually moves, or appears as anything but an inanimate stuffed toy, while she's there. And yet, when nobody (including the reader) watches, he moves quite a bit -- to the point where he actually does minor chores around the house when nobody's looking. These instances are so common that everyone in Maren's family, including her parents, have long since accepted that the owl is actually alive. As if this wasn't enough, a minor character hears the owl hooting at him at one point, and spends some time wondering if he's going insane.
** In the filmatization, ''Ugler i Mosen'', directed by Norwegian animator Ivo Caprino, the owl (represented by one of Caprino's characteristic stop-motion puppets) does move while the audience can see, though in this version it's a little more unclear whether or not he's real or just a figment of Maren's very active imagination.
%%* The animals in ''Series/ShoeboxZoo''.
* Appropriately enough, Imaginary Friends in ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' start out this way. The child a Friend is for sees it move and can interact with it; everyone else sees a doll.
%%* Sakutaro from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''.
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!!'''I've Got No Strings'''

The toy is fully animate, and everyone around it can see that it is alive, but it is still quite obviously a toy, being made of wood, stuffed with cotton, etc.

[[folder:Examples]]
* The robot Barney Estragon in ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' is eventually revealed to have started life as a rich kid's toy, who was eventually abandoned and left to fend for himself.
* Puppet Angel during the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime Smile Time]]" (though, of course, he was previously an animate being): "I'm made of felt, and my nose comes off."
* The household objects in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' including some toy-like Christmas decorations. Played with, in that they are humans who were cursed into their form by the Enchantress with the same magic that made the Beast what he is. They naturally have no problem talking to other humans.
%%* The wonderfully bizarre and rather [[BlackHumor blackly humorous]] Golden Age Newspaper Comic ''[[http://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/Betsy%20Bouncer/ Betsy Bouncer And Her Doll]]''.
%%* Kon from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', a "modsoul" trapped in the body of a stuffed lion.
%%* The Doughboys mentioned earlier briefly become this [[spoiler: right before they are destroyed for good.]]
* ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'' has the rag dolls of Yarn Kingdom. They were first created by giant Queen Purl and are able to move autonomously. They can live forever as long as their hearts aren't destroyed.
* On a similar note, the Anime/{{Fantasista Doll}}s; living avatars of trading cards that happily interact with human society.
* The tools from ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'' freely talk to humans and they jump into their toolbox on their own. Dusty can even pass out ([[FaintInShock when she met a celebrity]]) and get sick (in "Manny's Sick Day") while "Phillipe's Hiccups" is just about what you'd expect.
%%* Pokota from ''Manga/HimechansRibbon'', but he hides away from anybody who doesn't know the secret.
* In the kids' book ''I Need a Wee'', Alan and the other toys move around and even have their own society, but you can tell they're toys by looking at them.
%%* The killer toys from ''Film/{{Krampus}}'', once they attack the whole family.
* The ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' characters behave just like regular humans, but are clearly dolls due to their button eyes.
%%* The toys from ''In Search of the Titanic'' (the sequel of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'').
* The titular family in ''Literature/TheMennyms'', who are human-sized dolls and very convincingly made, but have beaded eyes, yarn for hair and so on. However, they are alive and do everything except eat. The books center around their ongoing efforts not to have their status as dolls discovered by anyone outside the family.
* A lot of the exhibits in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' are clearly statues and taxidermized animals, but speak and move in front of humans without a care (albeit only at night).
%%* The sackdolls from ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''.
* Literature/{{Pinocchio}}, the [[TropeNamers Level Namer]]. He's quite visibly a wooden puppet, but he runs around on his own without strings, talks, and doesn't hide his sentience in any way.
* The eponymous dolls from ''Manga/RozenMaiden''. Jun is even a little shocked when he sees Shinku's and Hinaichigo's joints for the first time, despite being aware that they are dolls, because he's gotten so used to them behaving like normal girls.
* The residents of the Island of Misfit Toys from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' and its spin-offs are these, at least to the North Pole community.
* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-387 a set of LEGO-brand bricks]] which, when something is built from them, immediately becomes animate and possesses signs of sentience. Just... make sure that the kids building things aren't aware of [[RunningGag [EXPUNGED]]]. Nobody wants to see that again.
* The impetuous Emília and the knowledgeable Visconde de Sabugosa ("Viscount of Corncob" in Portuguese) from ''Literature/SitioDoPicapauAmarelo'' are, respectively, a ragdoll and a doll made out of a corncob who became alive and are some of the main characters of the franchise. They are treated as fellow residents by everyone at the farm and are quite talkative (''especially'' Emília), but Visconde is still the size of a corncob and always gets sent to dangerous adventures first (much to his lament) because, in case he gets badly hurt, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he can be repaired back at the farm]]. This is downplayed in the TV adaptations, in which after getting life, they are portrayed by live-action actors and thus resemble more humans, apart from their costuming and make-up.
* The Commando Elite and the Gorgonites from ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', which are sentient as a result of possessing advanced military-grade AI munitions and proceed to cause some very obvious havoc in the real world.
* Geno, from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG,'' a [[EnergyWeapon laser-blasting]] doll animated by a higher being from the Star Road after its destruction to assist in the recovery of the Star Pieces.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has an episode in which a girl wished for her teddy bear to come alive. ''Supernatural'' [[MoodWhiplash being what it is]], the bear spent most of the subsequent episode drinking, watching porn and trying to commit suicide.
* ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'': Many of Witzy's friends are between this and "Seems so real and living". They all are clearly toys (Lulla has a music box key sticking out of her back, Boof has a heart on his belly, Patches has strange spots for a giraffe, and Ellie Funt looks patchwork), and yet they eat and need to sleep like they're alive.
* ''Film/{{Ted}}'' has a boy who wished his teddy bear come alive, and when it did, it set up the premise of the movie.
* The toys in ''VideoGame/TinkerQuarry'' are alive, but fully aware that they are toys, and classify themselves into species based on what material they're made of.
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!!'''Seems So Real and Living'''

They are fully animate and everyone around them can see that it is alive, and are still toys, made of wood, stuffed with cotton, etc. However, they seem so real to the viewers that they tend to forget this and view them as if they were actually living beings. Sometimes they get [[FurryReminder "toy" or "stuffed animal" reminders]] to remind the viewers that they are in fact stuffed or toys, especially in the form of getting ripped.

[[folder:Examples]]
* In ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Tabitha the baby witch can turn her (non-sentient) dolls into animate, life-sized dolls that ''look'' perfectly human and seem sentient. However, they still aren't real people, as shown when a toy soldier named Max can't speak even when grown to human size and made animate.
* The main characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bobinogs}}'' are dolls, but that's only apparent in the intro.
%%* Reynardine possessing Annie's toy wolf in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''.
* One of the main characters in the webcomic ''TheMulberryGallowsProject'' is Anastasia the living marionette. In the original run of the comic (no longer viewable online), the fact that she was a living puppet was significant, and characters wondered where she had come from; it was eventually implied that she was a {{Golem}}. In the {{Reboot}} continuity, she's still a life-sized marionette, but the characters all take it in stride as just one more aspect of the odd setting they inhabit.
* A lot of the exhibits in ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' that don't fit the previous category. For instance, many of the taxidermied animals look just like live animals (the monkey even [[UrineTrouble pees on the protagonist in one scene]]) and the caveman mannequins look just like humans.
%%* Some of the toys in ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy]]'' like Noddy himself and Dinah Doll.
* Likewise, the characters in ''Animation/TicketyToc'' are just figures inside a clock. And yet they live their lives like any normal human kid.
* Banette is a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} which, according to its various Pokédex entries, was once a normal stuffed toy, driven to life by a powerful grudge against the person who disowned it. It is said that treating it with enough care will satisfy its grudge and revert it back to its original form. Other than that, the games don't really give much indication that Banette is a toy.
* Bob, a ventriloquist dummy, from ''Series/{{Soap}}'' is a subversion to this, he is strictly an inanimate object but he talks so often and so life-like that often characters think he is real and he's more popular than the character who uses him.
* WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso, more or less. The theme song refers to him as "the U.N.I.Q.U.E. stuffed bear" and occasionally when someone shouts his name upon meeting him, he replies "In the plush!" Other than that, though, it really isn't played up much that he's a toy, such that it's very easy to forget.
%%* John's eponymous teddy bear from ''Film/{{Ted}}'' is between this level and the last one.
%%* Medicine Melancholy from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''.
* The trains from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransporters'' are toys, as can be seen in the intro and outro, but in the actual episodes you couldn't be blamed for thinking they were real, albeit sentient, trains.
* The stuffed animals from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'', because many viewers tend to forget that they are stuffed animals and sometimes treat them as if they are just as real as actual living animals like Rabbit and Owl. ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'' is the exception; Pooh and the other animals fall more under Toy Masquerade, and for whatever reason, only Christopher Robin knows that they're alive, and they can't let his mom know.
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!!'''Real and Living To Everyone'''

The toy has somehow [[BecomeARealBoy become a living being]], and no longer looks like a toy. Although these toys may be biologically indistinct from normal living beings, the fact remains that they were created and animated through unconventional means, like LoveImbuesLife or AppliedPhlebotinum.

[[folder:Examples]]
* The titular character from ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', when brought to life by the kids' imaginations.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Clara turns a plush elephant into a real (albeit [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife pink, spotted]]) one.
* [[Manga/DGrayMan The Ghost of Martel]], after becoming 'real' from the Innocence.
* All the toy figures in ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' series become fully human/real (but still miniature) when the magic key is used on the item containing them (a cupboard, a chest, and a car).
* In ''Life Size'', Lindsay Lohan's character accidentally brings Eve (a CaptainErsatz of Barbie played by Tyra Banks) to life during a ritual meant to bring her MissingMom BackFromTheDead and subsequently has to deal with Eve's FishOutOfWater status and ManicPixieDreamGirl tendencies. In the end, [[spoiler: Eve willingly turns herself back into a doll so that the things she's learned will carry over to all Eve dolls, giving them a much-needed cultural update and saving the entire line from cancellation.]]
* In Marvel's ''Comicbook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'' comic, it was always established that when the title characters ventured from the [[RussianDollWorld Microverse]] to Earth, they and their equipment would emerge tiny, about the size of toys, and their equipment might even be mistaken for such. In their crossover with the Comicbook/XMen, though, a very confused Cannonball insists his little sister actually owns toys that look just like them, [[CelebrityParadox implying the existence]] of ''Micronauts'' toys in the Marvel Universe (it's treated as a joke, of course).
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': The monsters are supposedly just stuffed animals, but thanks to stellar alignments, they come to life at times. Icicle, Sweetie Pie and Owl are the only ones (as of book 3) to be alive when they arrived, the others were stuffed toys at first and came to life later.
* Literature/{{Pinocchio}}, after becoming real, is a little boy who was once a puppet.
%%* In [[https://fanfiction.net/s/3066644/1/So-Lifelike this]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' fanfiction and [[https://fanfiction.net/s/3235362/1/Shoebox-of-Lies its sequel]] this happens to Captain Jack Sparrow and [[spoiler: Will Turner]] respectively.
%%* ''Webcomic/PlushAndBlood'': The plush characters in this story straddle the line between this level and the previous one.
* Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-137 SCP-137]], an entity that can possess toys and turn them into real, full sized versions of themselves. As you could expect from SCP Foundation, it's creepy. Imagine kid's beloved Teddy turning into real grizzly.
* After drinking the appropriate potion, Imaginary Friends from ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' migrate into this. They become more-or-less ordinary human Sims that everyone can see and interact with, but they can switch over to doll form at will (for no particular benefit beyond storytelling.)
* The characters in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' are portrayed this way, being trophies come to life and looking exactly like the regular game characters, with no figurine- or doll-like characteristics within their own universe aside from coming to life from trophies and turning back into trophies when killed. This can be seen in the intro and Giga Bowser's introduction in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee Melee]]'', and moreso various scenes in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl The Subspace Emissary]]'' (which depicts "dead" trophies more akin to stone statues than figurines). The various bits of CanonWelding reinforce their being on this end of the scale; while they are dreamt up from collectible dolls/trophies in the imaginary ''Smash Bros.'' universe, some characters are the same as their fully living canon selves (such as [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]]), and some can be summoned in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates other universes]] where they are indistinguishable from ordinary humans (like with [[Franchise/FireEmblem Marth]]).
* There was an early 80's children's show called ''Series/TodaysSpecial'' that starred a mannequin that came to life as long as he wore his magic hat and didn't leave the store.
* Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit, after becoming real, is biologically a rabbit but was once a toy.
* In the Literature/{{Xanth}} series, OmniGlot Grundy Golem was originally just a golem, made from clay and other odds and ends. The Demon Xanth grants his wish to become alive, which isn't examined in detail, but he's implied to basically be a tiny human from then on.
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