Toys were objects made to be played with, usually by children.
The Toymaker had a collection of toys in his realm, and turned those who lost his games into his toys. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker) When the Twelfth Doctor helped him build a new toyroom, he began playing with figures of himself and the First Doctor. (COMIC: Relative Dimensions) When Charles Banerjee challenged the Toymaker to a game, he lost, causing the Toymaker to turn him into a puppet. (TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
The Eleventh Doctor briefly worked in the toy department of Sanderson & Grainger in 2011. (TV: Closing Time) He later repaired toys for the children of Christmas, Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The Albanians mockingly referred to the army of Mussolini's Italy as an "army of toy soldiers" during the 1939 invasion. This made the shame of defeat worse when Italy conquered the nation. (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)
When the Fourteenth Doctor found himself in the Dalek Dome's Golden City Zone, he mocked the inhabitants as being "toy town" Daleks compared to the genuine articles. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).) When he later confronted the Toymaker in Soho 1925, he depressingly told Donna Noble that without his "toys" like his screwdriver, he was just a man trying to defeat a god. (TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
