Yet ELIZA gained surprising popularity as a toy project and can be seen as a very early precursor to current commercial systems such as those used by Ask. com.

While most commonly marketed as a children's toy, the action figure has gained wide acceptance as an adult collector item.

The toy Johnny Hero was introduced by Rosko Industries for Sears in 1965, but was known as a " Boy's Doll " since the term action figure had not gained widespread usage.

The FAO Schwarz flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City is a popular tourist destination, and has gained iconic status for its floor piano, cameos in major motion pictures, and real-life toy soldiers.

The hoop gained international popularity in the late 1950s when a plastic version was successfully marketed by California's Wham-O toy company.

Because they looked fast and were fast ( they were equipped with a low-friction wheel / axle assembly ), Hot Wheels quickly gained an important niche in the diecast toy market, becoming one of the world's top sellers and challenging the Matchbox 1-75 series in popularity.

The initial Boba Fett toy, more than Fett's actual film appearance, might be responsible for the character's popularity ; Henry Jenkins suggests children's play helped the character " take on a life of its own.

In a move that would create global popularity for this type of toy, Hasbro also licensed the product to companies in other markets.

While most professional medium format cameras are very expensive, some inexpensive plastic imports, such as the Chinese Diana and Holga, are gaining in popularity, particularly with toy camera enthusiasts.

Because of the popularity of lomography and toy camera culture, medium-format photography has seen a resurgence with amateur photographers.

Since its creation in the 1950s, more than 25million Fuzzy Felt sets have been sold internationally and although Fuzzy Felt reached its peak in popularity sometime in the mid-1970s, it remains an iconic child toy enjoyed still by the children who play with it and the parents who nostalgically purchase it.

Recently the Holga has experienced renewed consumer interest outside China due to the increasing popularity of toy cameras, and a continuing counterculture response to the increasing complexity of modern cameras.

With the popularity of toy trains and construction toys declining, and without another successful product line to buoy the company's finances, Gilbert found itself in serious financial trouble.

Meanwhile, construction toys were gaining in popularity, so in an effort to re-diversify, Ives released a Meccano and Erector Set-like construction toy in 1913 named Struktiron.

It was produced by Jim Terry and his company American Way, and consisted of five imported Japanese giant robot serials ( originally produced in the mid-1970s by Toei Animation ) in response to the popularity of the Shogun Warriors toy collection ( in fact, Mattel was one of the sponsors ).

In 1995, due to the popularity of the play-sets at the time, the McDonald's Happy Meal offered a toy play-set featuring Mighty Max.

Through the years, Japanese videogame publisher and toy maker Banpresto as well as other companies have released countless other Haro products due to the character's immense popularity as a Gundam " mascot ".

The toy enjoyed a brief renewal of popularity in the 1990s with clackers consisting of a handle and plastic triangles with the plastic balls at the end giving weight to the free moving toy.

O ' Donnell's endorsement of the Tickle Me Elmo played a large part in the huge popularity of the toy.

Motson's popularity has extended to the Internet, where BBC Sport Online created a Mini Motty " desktop toy " to keep fans up to date on action in the Premiership, FA Cup, and other leagues throughout England and Scotland.

At the peak of his popularity, Teddy Ruxpin became the best-selling toy of 1985 and 1986, and the newest version was awarded the 2006 Animated Interactive Plush Toy of the Year by Creative Child Magazine.

The Chogokin line of robots ( the name given by Popy to the toyline ), eventually lost its popularity in the early 80's after its rival company, Bandai, took the industry by storm with their Gundam franchise and their new plastic toy lines.

During the mid to late 1980s, the toy Teddy Ruxpin became the " Official Spokesbear " for the center at the height of his popularity.

: Problems over the Jetfire toy began when Bandai absorbed Takatoku Toys, and Macross regained popularity, leading to Bandai's desire to reproduce the Valkyrie toy themselves.

Although his tech spec profile is quite generic, describing him as an untrustworthy, yet ambitious spy, his persona in the US & UK Marvel Comics drove his toy into meteoric popularity, despite the small number of Thunderwings produced.

Advancements for this and other toy problems are the development and application of heuristics ( rules of thumb ) that yield solutions to the n queens puzzle at a small fraction of the computational requirements.

* Graphic kit, a set of decal s for an automobile, motorcycle, model car, or other toy, used to customize the item

This enabled merchandising such as toy lines, animated cartoon adaptations, and other licensing.

Traditional arguments for incompatibilism are based on an " intuition pump ": if a person is like other mechanical things that are determined in their behavior such as a wind-up toy, a billiard ball, a puppet, or a robot, then people must not have free will.

As a result, the CTW decided to depend upon licensing arrangements with toy companies and other manufacturers, publishing, and international sales for their funding.

After its success as a toy, other uses were found.

Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

The company also produced a wide range of toy airplanes and other vehicles by pressing scrap metal obtained from local automobile factories.

The generic British golliwog later made its way back across the Atlantic as dolls, toy tea sets, ladies ' perfume, and in myriad other forms.

It's almost impossible to take that particular toy circuit and transplant it into other RCs.

Parents and professionals also stand to benefit from insightful play ideas for each toy, as well as from the online forums to allow them to share experiences and provide personal advice to each other.

Low-end department or toy store skate frames may be composed of other types of plastic.

During the 1980s, Matchbox started to switch to the more conventional plastic and cardboard " blister packs " that were used by other die cast toy brands such as Hot Wheels.

Megatron survived, and eventually upgraded his body ( based on his Classics toy ) and gathered many other Decepticons to him.

Robotman was a toy character created by United Feature Syndicate as an attempt at cross-marketing toys, videos, and other merchandise.

This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a toy Alsatian to represent Montmorency, the dog in the original story.

Steve Beresford has used toy pianos ( along with many other toy instruments ) in his improvised music.

Their music was, broadly, repetitive minimalism, often of great technical difficulty ( Hobbs's Working Notes ( 1969 ) for four toy pianos ), great dynamic power ( Shrapnel's 4 Toy Pianos ( 1971 )), were used in various combinations with reed organs, and used compositional techniques that were either specific to British experimentalism ( such as systems music, invented by John White ), or borrowed from other disciplines ( such as Alec Hill's use of change ringing systems ).

On it, she plays a number of pieces written specially for the toy piano as well as arrangements of other pieces, including Ludwig van Beethoven's " Moonlight Sonata " and The Beatles ' " Eleanor Rigby ".

Re-run a number of times on British television and purchased by the BBC in 1993, the 32-episode series has been the foundation of merchandising campaigns since its first appearance, leading to the release of items such as toy dolls and other associated media, including novels and comic strips in the Anderson-related children's magazine, TV Century 21.

Sex acts may also involve other forms of genital stimulation, such as solo / mutual masturbation, which may involve rubbing or penetration by the use of fingers or hands or by a device ( sex toy ) such as a dildo or vibrator.

In this experiment, children were left in a room with a variety of toys, including a highly desirable toy steam-shovel ( or other toy ).

Upon leaving the room, the experimenter told half the children that there would be a severe punishment if they played with that particular toy and told the other half that there would be a mild punishment.