Mold for forming multi-sided, fully contoured, three-dimensional toy

Abstract

A fully contoured three dimensional toy figure made of at least two figure parts, and a toy apparatus and a method for molding the toy figure are disclosed. The figure parts are molded in respective mold cavities with receptacles, e.g., holes, in a side thereof and selected parts are joined together with simple connectors inserted into aligned receptacles of adjacently positioned parts. The receptacles may simply be blind holes in one side of the figure parts, and the connectors may be simple rods, bars or tubes which may have structure that assists in engaging the walls of the holes. The invention allows small children to make fully-contoured toy figures easily without having to use adhesives or typical fasteners to attach the figure parts together. Child-safe plastic materials such as Plasti-Goop.RTM. may be used as the plastic molding material. Also disclosed is a toy mold for use by young children in making molded figures and figure parts with a fitting attached thereto, whereby the figure or figure part may be attached to an accessory such as a hair clip, or play jewelry such as a ring or bracelet, or to another figure or figure part etc.