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Mention must be made of course of computer games which, once discovered by a boy, can be tremendously addictive, and can take hold at an early age. Such toys, such as Schleich anime figures, are satisfying to play with, engage a child's mind, whilst perhaps also helping them develop physical or manual dexterity. Such games are not to be perhaps, encouraged too much, since they are one-dimensional, usually of the shoot'em up variety.

Such models (such as from Schleich) can be built into sets or settings that mirror real life, and allow the child's imagination to take hold and create stories and scenarios. Favourites among boys, inevitably, are toy soldiers or other action figure that enable them to act out scenes of war. Some boys will progress from a simple set of large scale trains to smaller, more detailed, and much more comprehensive sets over time.

Traditionally, boys' toys have been centred around the interests and pursuits of the adult male to a large extent, so toys like cars, boats, motor-bikes, gadgets, guns and so on would be popular. Another whole category of toys for boys includes the type that are geared towards making something, either from simple building bricks, or more complicated plastic pieces of various shapes that can lock together like Lego. These kits are remarkable in the range of different things that can be made from them, and the amount of creativity they can stimulate. For the older boy there are even kits of simple electronic gadgets and radios available now.

Schleich, for instance produces models of figures including the world of mediaeval knights, and the world of the American Indian. There are also sets of wild animals and of dinosaurs, with each model being very detailed and realistic, whilst at the same time being suitably robust. Any boys who have read about the Knights of the Round Table, or other stories of bravery and chivalry of the medieval knights, will be interested in the Schleich set of knights which includes many different pvc figure as well as a castle.