 
Playing make-believe is a common pastime for children
Research shows that playing with dolls and toy figurines can improve a child's
creativity communication and social skills
This includes problem solving and empathizing
Whether it's an animal person or fictional creature a toy figurine can be a passport to a fantasy world where?
Imagination rules and the story plays out in the child's hands
The toy company designer study photographs or drawings of the creature they plan to create?
Then they prepare a sketch of the figurine
Showing the physical characteristics such as size colours and textures
Once the sketch is finalized. They use specialized software to transform it into a three-dimensional model
Then a 3D printer creates a plastic model
the Company also Employs traditional wax Modelers
It may look like a slow process, but an experienced wax modeler can often sculpt the model faster than a computer
The Company's engineers Determine whether the toy should be produced in one piece or multiple parts
Then the modeler makes a wax or plastic model accordingly
This particular dino is divided into four parts head body jaw and tongue
For each part workers create a silicone mold which will be used to make several copies in hard plastic
Workers placed a model of the dinos head in a box then fill the box with silicone it
takes about 12 hours for the silicone to cure
Then they cut it open and extract the model
They use the vacated cavity to cast several hard plastic copies of the part
the art Department uses most of them to sample paint colors
One Copy however goes to the company's tool makers to use it to make the production mold
They bury the copy and putty up to the mid point. They leave the top half of the copy exposed
Next they set the half-buried copy in a metal form and fill it with plaster
Once the plaster hardens they cured in an oven for about an hour then they extract the copy
What's left in the plaster is a cavity in the shape of half the dinosaur?
They filled the cavity with Molten zinc alloy Dwith copper aluminum and Magnesium
once the metal cools and solidifies
They break the plaster revealing one half of the two-part metal production mold
They repeat the entire process to make the other half
Workers Mount the Two-part dino mold in an injection molding machine the machine shoots hot Molten plastic into the metal mold cavity
the machine immediately cools the plastic then releases the figurine the
Plastic is solid but still soft. So they dip it in cold water this hardens it further
Next artists hand paint the figurines using both traditional and air brushes
The pain is non-toxic and very durable
it's designed to Flex with the plastic to prevent cracking and also withstands abrasion because
children often drag these toys along the ground
Once the paint dries. They assemble the toy a worker glues the dinos tongue into the hinged Jaw
Snaps the jaw to the head
Then glues the head to the body
the company performs safety testing on every new figurine design
This tensile test makes sure a child can't pull or bite off a piece of the toy
Chemical analysis confirmed both the plastic and the paint are completely non-toxic
So this dino may look dangerous, but in reality. He's perfectly harmless
This ferocious beast is ready to hit the playground
