Stacie Passon's Concussion, about a woman in a lesbian relationship who becomes a call girl, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts's Toy's House, about three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness, are also in the running.
The toy's "magic screen" was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998, and it was added by the Toy Industry Association to its "Century of Toys" list in 2003.
Britain's toy market is similar to America's in favouring entertainment over education, says Gerrick Johnson, a toy analyst at BMO Capital Markets.
The depth and breadth of toy selection almost guarantees the consumer always finds the desired toy(s).
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The engineers said the pipes could be easily shaped to fit a toy's specific form, with joints placed at specific places allowing them to be linked to other light pipes.
In the middle of its forehead is a black marking -- it doesn't actually serve a particular function, instead serving as a "legacy" design, where the toy's IR sensors once lived.
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BRYAN, Ohio (AP) Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said.
But on Tuesday, when Google revealed its new browser known as Chrome, it became clear how GreenBorder's engineers have been earning their free lunches for the last 15 months: devising a way to inoculate the search giant's new toy against the Web's epidemic of cybercrime.
That's a major reason why Hasbro was largely unaffected by the toy industry's lead paint crisis in 2007.
Each film--Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.
"Sure, it's a fun toy first and foremost, but once the initial novelty wears off it doesn't have to end up at the bottom of the toy box ... it's yours to reinvent, " he says.
The city, once the world's toy-manufacturing capital, has a long history with rubber ducks.
The future of the U.S. military looks a bit like a child's toy glider.
Though it may be modeled on a child's toy, this massive public art installation isn't just for kids.
That hurts a company like Toys 'R' Us, one of the featured retailers in the Ecology Center's toy-testing laboratory.
Icelandic banks and companies made acquisitions across Europe, including the iconic Hamley's toy store and the West Ham soccer team.
Nothing like a kid's toy to seize the attention of grown-up journalists.
Another does it with a toy duck's bill.
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But perhaps Lego should not strive unduly to keep up with electronic fashion: the big hit this Christmas at Hamleys, London's toy mecca, was a come-back story dating back to ancient Greece: the humble yo-yo.
Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy.
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Mr. TOM HANKS: (As Woody) Look, we're all very impressed with Andy's new toy.
Mattel, the world's largest toy maker, employs some 600 toy designers in southern California.
There are also miniprofiles of real Ebayers who sell glass eyeballs or collect every known Happy Meal toy from McDonald's.
Sales at the company's U.S. toy business had declined in each of the past three years, and the profit margin had fallen to 2% in 2003.
Despite the slight improvement driven Toy Story 3's robust debut, box office figures are running at about a 4% slower pace in the second quarter than a year ago.
Wednesday's hearing, which came a day after China agreed to the CPSC's request to eliminate the use of lead paint on toy exports to the U.S., produced few significant results.
News of the latest fire came as labor activists from across Asia convened in Bangkok to mark the 20th anniversary of Thailand's Kader toy factory fire, which killed nearly 200 people.
One of the fires, at a Karachi textile plant, ranked among the deadliest industrial factory fires in history, surpassing Thailand's Kader Toy fire, which killed almost 200 more than 20 years ago.
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