Tropes directly involving Toys.
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- Abnormal Plushies: Stuffed animals that are utterly bizzarre.
- Action Figure File Card: An action figure has a bio on their packaging that gives such information as the character's personality and backstory.
- Action Figure Justification: It's not a "doll", it's an "action figure".
- Advertising-Only Continuity: What happens in the toyline's advertisements isn't consistent with the canon of the work the toyline is tied to.
- *batteries not included: When toys are sold without batteries to save a bit of money during production.
- Blind Bag Collectables: What's inside? Buy it and find out!
- Built with LEGO
- Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys: If it's for boys, play up the technological aspect; if it's for girls, it must be magic!
- Combining Mecha: Robots that merge with each other to form larger robots are a popular toy design, both because it encourages additional sales, and because it's just plain cool.
- Companion Cube: An inanimate object (frequently some sort of plaything) is carried around by an unhinged character who treats the item as if it were a sentient being.
- Cool Toy: A toy with all kinds of cool gadgets and technology built in.
- Creepy Doll: A doll with something vaguely (or overtly) unsettling about it.
- Creepy Dollhouse: The Creepy Doll's residence of choice.
- Cymbal-Banging Monkey: A specific kind of toy that looks like a chimpanzee with a pair of cymbals.
- Deadly Remote Control Toy: Using an RC car, plane, or other gadget as a lethal weapon.
- Demonic Dummy: Evil ventriloquist dummies.
- Environment-Specific Action Figure: The tendency for action figure lines to have multiple figures of the same character, but with differing costumes and accessories.
- Faux Furby: A fictional toy inspired by the real-life toy Furby.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: When female characters love to cuddle and/or collect plush toys.
- Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell: A kid-friendly language device is made to say things that aren't so kid-friendly.
- Kibbles and Bits: Transforming robots with residual parts from their alternate forms.
- Killer Teddy Bear: A teddy bear that is used as a weapon or is sentient and capable of causing harm itself.
- Living Toys: Toys that are alive.
- Lost Toy Grievance: A child gets upset over losing their favorite toy.
- Made of Indestructium: A reason why some toys are difficult to break.
- Matryoshka Object: Something with a tinier something inside of it.
- Merchandise-Driven: The main reason the show exists is to advertise toys.
- Misaimed Merchandising: Can apply when toys are made for a work that isn't intended for children.
- The Mockbuster: A Shoddy Knockoff Product of a popular movie.
- My Little Panzer: Dangerous children's toys.
- My Little Phony: A parody of My Little Pony.
- Mysterious Cube of Rubik: A character is utterly fascinated by a Rubik's Cube.
- Never Had Toys: A character never had toys, even as a child, usually due to being abused, being poor, or their personality.
- Official Cosplay Gear: Merchandise based on a character's outfit, weapons, and other accessories.
- Overly Cool Play Space: Toy commercials depicting children playing on a needlessly elaborate set.
- Perverse Puppet: An evil animate doll or puppet.
- Product-Promotion Parade: A sequence in a Merchandise-Driven work dedicated to quickly listing off all the new characters and/or accessories you can buy.
- Puppet Permutation: A person becomes a living puppet.
- Rubik's Cube: International Genius Symbol: Solving a Rubik's Cube is notoriously tricky, so a quick way to show that someone is a genius is to have them solve it in record time.
- Sentimental Homemade Toy: A homemade toy symbolizes the emotional connection between two characters, usually a parent and child.
- Scary Jack-in-the-Box: A jack-in-the-box that is terrifying in some way.
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: When a toy is popular enough, expect low-quality ripoffs of it to come out of the woodwork.
- Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: How accurately a character's toy matches their depiction in the show.
- Sliding Scale of Living Toys
- Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails: A toyline that attempts to appeal to boys by having its gimmick revolve around grotesque and ugly creatures as well as slime.
- Smuggling with Dolls: Smuggling contraband inside a children's toy.
- Surprisingly Functional Toys: When a character shrinks, any toy versions of a regular size item (such as a car) will function as if it is a small scale replica of its larger counterpart rather than a mere plaything.
- Thememobile: Vehicles thematically themed to characters often show up in toylines, even when they don't exist in the work itself.
- Toy-Based Characterization: A person's favorite toy, or the way they play with their toys, says something about their personality.
- Toy Commercial: For when the show isn't enough!
- Toy Disguise: A small creature pretends to be a toy in order to hide.
- Toy Tales: An index of fictional works based on toys.
- Toy Time: A level in a video game made out of toys, giant or otherwise.
- Toy Transmutation: A character gets transformed into a toy.
- Toyless Toyline Character: The show has its own toyline or was produced to promote a toyline, yet there's at least one character who doesn't have their own toy.
- Toyline-Exclusive Character: The toyline of a work of fiction has a figure of a character who does not appear in the original work at all.
- Toys-To-Life Game: A game that involves physical toys interacting with a virtual game.
- Tragic Abandoned Toy: A sentient toy grieves after being lost, abandoned, or forgotten.
- Troubled Toybreaker: An abused, neglected or otherwise troubled child vents their anger by destroying toys.
- Vengeful Abandoned Toy: A sentient toy turns evil after being lost, abandoned, or forgotten.
- Wicked Toymaker: A villain who makes toys.
- Wind-Up Key: Mechanical toys that move after their key is wound up enough.
- Win Her a Prize: Trying to win a prize (usually a stuffed animal) for your girlfriend at the carnival.
