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This isn't choking. The issue is and lets get clarity, it's a defective toy it needs to be recalled.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

If you have a toy chest with a lid that doesn't stay open, the CPSC recommends you remove the lid or install a spring-loaded lid support.

I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

I'm not running anywhere with a toy car shoved up my butt.

I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.'

No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it.

It's really encouraging that in a pretty difficult retail environment and a challenging toy environment, they were able to pull this off. This bodes well for the company for 2001 and beyond.

A parent should always keep in mind how a child is playing with a toy and evaluate whether they want the child to play with that toy or not.

It's definitely worth showing that a simple toy submarine can be made into a very smart fish.

They could either go to Target or try to find another toy retailer like K-B Toys. You would think Target first, since it is already their partner, but the one problem with that is Target has its own Web site where it sells toys -- and how much will Target want to give up?

They are looking for a good sale of Toy Story one and two (to be re-released next quarter), and while they are cautious about it, they are not overly concerned about it.

I like to mix it up, if I put some beef jerky in the package for the handler, I'll put a chew toy in for the dog.

In order for the toy industry to survive, companies will have to deal with Wal-Mart. It has to be understood that Wal-Mart doesn't make deals with everyone who approaches them. Ultimately it's Wal-Mart who chooses who will be in their stores.

I just felt really bad for the people. I thought we could do something to help. I saw the kids on TV and thought a toy would make them feel better.

I'll tell you what's been doing very well: toy and video game companies. Instead of flying to see grandma and grandpa this year, people are planning to stay home and maybe spend a little more money on the kids.

In the toy industry, about 60 percent of the independent retailers have already gone out of business.

I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.

Children are migrating to consumer electronics faster than toy companies can take them there.

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

They are very different types of player and it's a new toy for us to play with having real competition for places, ... It won't be until the Heineken Cup that you will get a real indication of what we think our best side is.

It's definitely a way to reclaim some market share, but how do you get a kid to want it? Kids are more proficient with technology than Mom and Dad. The traditional barrier to what made something a toy has really dissolved... why shouldn't they have the real thing?

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. ""You don't have to tell me,"" I said. ""I'm off the team, aren't I?"" ""Well,"" said Coach, ""you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times."" It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

As (electronic components) drop in price and as consumers are willing to spend a little more money, that opens a lot more technology to children. That encourages the toy industry to take more risk at high-priced toys.

The cafeteria deep fryer is not a toy

The great big city's a wond'rous toy just made for a girl and boy

You use their favorite toy or a special ball, and when they find who they are looking for, you throw the ball at the spot to reward them, ... And they want to please you. They push to get that reward.

You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?

A heating element is essentially a toy with an electric light bulb. Toy kitchen ranges, for example, use these, and shouldn't be played with by kids under 8.

For a toy company, you really don't know until November and December. You can do all the things you want now, but you better have it right then. One day in December can be worth a week now.

It's the parade; it's our strip launching; it's the launch of a toy line; it's the launch of DVD's, a video game; and it's all these things happening at once, ... You have a pop going on in terms of awareness.

There is no way of knowing. A small toy gun can sometimes fool the best of us. When officers respond to an emergency, they have to make a split-second decision; when all you see is the top part of a potential weapon, there's no way to tell a difference.

It's a typical, mediocre Christmas season. But we've gone through the last years with no hot new toy and no hot apparel look. There's no reason to shop early.

Within a minute and 15 seconds, according to our tapes, (the officers) had called in to say it was a toy gun and they cleared the call shortly thereafter,

It was a tough year, ... We didn't have a hot toy and we didn't have a big movie to push sales of licensed products.

We find that parents are starting to migrate to more of a balance in the toy box.

About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It's also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.

It may be a boon for electronics retailers, but not for toy sellers.

This is the most interesting toy store because it is not just a place where there are just a bunch of boxes on shelves. You come in here and it is very entertaining, very interactive, and very fun.

There's a lot of kids out there with this toy and now they're starting to fall apart.

They're certainly on the list of the top five brands in the toy industry, up in the ranks with a Barbie or Monopoly.

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

He approached her with what appeared to be a firearm. The woman fought him off. Turned out, it was a toy gun -- she thought it was a toy gun -- and they had a struggle in the street. He tried grabbing her. She screamed for help and a Harvard University employee came to her assistance, called police.

He came up to me and said, ?Can you buy me some toys?? We would have bought every toy store for this kid if they were there.

The market is kind of like a four-year old kid in a toy store,

The little five year old who's at my house was very upset, worried about her toy kitty cat and where she was going to sleep.

And a little known fact is that a lot of toy injuries actually occur because the toys have been left out, so a parent or a child trips over them and falls.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.