wooden toys

Fundamentally these can be reduced to two major outcomes – first to make toys as robust and colourful as possible, and second to make them the fastest freewheeling wooden toys in New Zealand. Resene paints are used for their sheer convenience in purchase, consistence of reproduction, simplicity in use and satisfaction of the environmentally-friendly clean-up.

A toymaker's first inclination is often to make anthropomorphic toys, that is, to personalise them or emulate little animals. Some very successful examples exist in model railway toys and others within that genre. There are downsides to this concept:

a) Some imported animated toys can be grotesque and off-putting to small children who, despite parental preferences, are the ultimate customer.

b) Marketing of vaguely similar products will only favour dominant toy sellers who will in all probability be large multinationals.

c) Children tend to rapidly outgrow anthropomorphic toys. Small boys very soon consider all toys with faces to be very childish indeed.