Do You Know This Knowledge About Wooden Toys

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Wooden toy is one important category in the large toys family and it is a long history, which is different with other toys such as RC toys, stuffed toys and so on. It is a legacy of history and has unique characteristic in every phase. About 1800 years ago, all wooden toys are made by hands and gradually produced by turning-lathes after second industrial revolution. Nowadays, wooden toys are firstly manufactured by machines and finally polished by hands.

In the early time, one wooden toy named small circus troupe is too much famous in wooden animal toys, in which’s joints are active. 20-30 years in the last century, figures of these wooden toys that joints can be moved come from the role of opera and film. All in all, this kind of wooden toy is very popular at the time.

Simple wooden horses and wooden horses that can be pulled are the most popular toy images in early time. With the time past, people’s enthusiasm on producing wooden horse toys became more and more strong. Still up to now, this kinds of enthusiasm has no tendency to descend.

You must to admit that human’s intelligence is so forceful, ...
... after producing such simple wooden animal toys such as wooden horses, they think that whether these kinds of wooden toys can be moved, OK, finally, they put wheels on the original wooden animal toys, which became other toys can be pulled. In addition to wooden toys that can be pulled, other types of wooden toys which can be moved are also invented by people. These can be concluded into two types.

Firstly, install an activity bar at the end of toys so that toys’ limbs, head and foot can be jumped. This kind of wooden toy is named jump wooden toy. The second type is Jack-in-the-box, in which there is clown with mechanical spring under the foot, once open the box, this clown can be jumped. At the beginning, it was popular in Europe and now gradually developed into one kind of horrific toys. For example, put a snake, insects or other horrible animals with mechanical spring in the box.

Gyro and stilts were once very popular wooden toys. Nowadays, we can also see stilts show in some large scale celebrations. As for gyro, it’s history can be dated back to 250 BC in ancient Greece.

In the 1850s, there were too many building blocks and puzzles in Europe and the United States markets, which are the main wooden toys up to now.

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