When he is not inventing toys, Dr. Kanor said he looks for existing toys to adapt that "have a lot of pizazz."

Children's street culture is invented and largely sustained by children themselves, although it may come to incorporate fragments of media culture and toys in its activities.

Crandall began working in his father's woodworking and furniture factory in Covington, Pennsylvania and at the age of twelve began inventing toys.

Why not invent and adapt toys for the wheelchair-bound children in Ms. Morgan's class who are stimulated by sound and intrigued by colors to learn?

In 1984 after the 1983 video game crash, he left Midway to invent toys at the consulting firm Marvin Glass & Associates.

He means," Sandy clarified, "that he likes to sit on the floor arid invent toys.

He is also a consultant to M. H. Segan & Company in New York, where he invents toys.

She is considered the creative mind behind inventing new toys, and all the villagers look up to her.

He also starred in the 1986-87 television series "The Wizard," about a scientist who invented high-tech toys and gadgets.

"I'd been inventing toys for kids that were being licensed by Sega and other companies," she said, "and I suddenly realized that the message was loud and clear that technology wasn't for girls."