42 Trending Toy Maker Businesses [2024]

Updated: January 18th, 2023
Become A Toy Maker

The toys market is growing at a CAGR of 2.5% and will reach a market size of $103 Billion in the next few years. Toys play a critical role in a child’s growth and development. They help in brain development, enabling the kids to acquire logical and reasoning skills.

Besides, toys help kids develop spatial reasoning and social and communication skills. Therefore, starting a toy-making business today could be the best decision you are about to make.

To start your toy-making business, identify a potential niche, and focus on delivering suitable toys.

Looking for some examples of a toy maker?

Interested in case studies of a successful toy maker? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. KiwiCo

KiwiCo delivers STEM, STEAM, science and art kits that provide serious fun and hands-on learning. Find kits for kids of all ages today!

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Website traffic: 2.33M/month

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2. Make Community

Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.

Where they're located: Denver, Colorado, USA
Website traffic: 620K/month

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4. Buy Closeout Toys Online

Empire Discount is a wholesale supplier of NEW toy closeouts, value priced toys and school supplies from leading manufacturers such as Mattel, Fisher Price, Hasbro, Playskool, Bandai, and more.

Where they're located: Ghanzi District, Botswana

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5. Spin Master

A multi-category children's entertainment company since 1994, Spin Master has been designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer products for children around the world and is recognized as a global growth leader within the toy industry.

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA
Website traffic: 180K/month

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6. Ultra Sabers

UltraSabers® has the largest collection of custom lightsabers, sabers and FX Sabers in the galaxy! Buy or build a real lightsaber from parts in our massive arsenal of parts.

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Website traffic: 350K/month

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7. MGA Entertainment

The official home of your favorite MGA Entertainment kids toys and products including Little Tikes, LOL Surprise! and many more!

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA
Website traffic: 550K/month

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8. The Toy Association

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

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9. Toybox

How much they make: $2.4M/year
Where they're located: Oakland, California, USA
How much did it cost to start: $10K
Current team size: 3
Website traffic: 70K/month

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On Creating A 3D Printer And Creativity Platform For Kids

Toybox Labs co-founder and CEO Ben Baltes shares his journey of creating a 3D printer and creativity platform for kids, including brutal setbacks and incredible successes, resulting in millions of dollars of revenue a year, and offers a discount for those interested in purchasing.

About
Ben started Toybox over 6 years ago
Revenue
Ben grew the business to $200K/month
Costs
It cost Ben $10000 to start the business
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10. Toybox Labs

Website traffic: 70K/month

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11. MysteryVibe

MysteryVibe is a sexual health company combining cutting-edge design & technology to create award winning smart vibrators for men, women & couples that improves their health and wellbeing.

Website traffic: 190K/month

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12. 3D Printer management: Remote Control WIFI, browser cloud slicer, Cura support

Cloud 3D Printing OS Operating System: Store your 3D files in the cloud, Monitor your prints from anywhere, Slice online with any device supports Cura 3, best OctoPrint plugin

Where they're located: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Website traffic: 80K/month

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13. Make Community

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA

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14. ToymakingPlans.com

We design the highest quality original wood toy plans for amateur and professional woodworkers. All of our toy plans are instant digital PDF files you download to your computer and easily print to 8-1/2" x 11" or A4 paper.

Where they're located: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

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15. Toymate

We have the biggest range and best deals for Toys and Outdoor in Australia with over 20 stores. We have LOL, LEGO, Barbie, Disney as well as classic toys and boardgames. Shop in store and online. Zip Pay available

Website traffic: 270K/month

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16. Rubie's

Rubie's - World's Largest Costume Manufacturer & Supplier for Halloween

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Current team size: 1000

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17. U.S.TOY Co., Inc.

U.S.Toy Co

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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18. Joyin

Joyin offers the largest collection of toys online for kids of every age! Visit the largest online toy store of USA and get the right toys for your kids today!

Where they're located: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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19. Just Play

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20. Best Educational Summer & Year Round Camps for Kids

Galileo Innovation Summer & Online Camps for kids & teens. In-person Camps in California, Chicago & Denver. Proven innovation & design thinking curriculum.

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Website traffic: 180K/month

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21. Happy Worker Toys & Collectibles

We make GREAT toys and collectibles in vinyl, plush and resin. Working with creators, game studios and toy-loving companies we create happy fans and toy joy!

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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22. American Specialty Toy Retailing Association

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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23. Toy Machine Skateboards

Skateboarding by Skateboarders! The complete catalog of products from Tum Yeto brands: Toy Machine, Foundation, Pig Wheels, Ruckus Trucks

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

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Modern art sculptures designed by Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk. The Los-Angeles based duo has been sculpting since 2003.

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

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25. Kidstop Specialty Toys and Books

Kid Stop Toys - your source for safe, educational toys that will challenge your child's intellect and stretch their imagination. Huge selection of specialty educational toys, games, gifts, and manufactures including Aeromax, Alex, Action Products, Acting Out, A Wish Come True, Bananagrams, BE Good Company, Blue Orange Games, and nearly 4,000 other products available. Hundreds of American made toys in stock.

Where they're located: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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26. Otra Vez Couture Consignment

Shop and consign at the best high-end women's apparel, handbags, accessories, and shoes consignment boutique in San Antonio, Texas.

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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27. Indy with Kids

How much they make:
Where they're located: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
How much did it cost to start: $500
Current team size: 2
Website traffic: 150K/month

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28. Erector by Meccano

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Website traffic: 40K/month

29. Phoenixmodel.com

Where they're located: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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30. Toysmith

Where they're located: Hirevo, Gabrovo, Bulgaria

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31. Shane Confectionery

We aim to serve, delight and transport customers by interpreting the historic candy and chocolate-making traditions of Philadelphia. Craft Chocolates & Bean to Bar

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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32. GUNNZO

Art Toys, Designer Toys, Urban Vinyl Toys, Blind Boxes, V-Color Paint...

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

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33. Geppetto's Toys

Geppetto’s magical world of toys. Visit any of our 10 locations in the San Diego area! A San Diego Toy Store Tradition

Where they're located: San Diego, California, USA

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34. ANIMAL MAKERS INQUIRIES

This is the inquiry page for questions involving animal props, puppets, costumes, and displays.

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

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35. barbaramarxhubbard

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36. Master Toys

direct importer, and wholesaler of toys, dolls, novelty gift items, and die-cast metal cars for over 30 years

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

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37. Luke's Toy Factory

Eco-friendly, educational toys made in America. 3D stacking puzzles develop creative play, problem solving and fine-motor skills in preschoolers.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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38. King & Country

WELCOME TO KING & COUNTRY…

WE are one of the best-known and most-collected producers of toys soldiers and miniature figures in the world today.

Our all-metal, hand-painted, 1:30 scale figures (about 60mm tall) cover the broadest spectrum of history – from Ancient to Modern and many points in between.

We begin in Ancient Egypt before travelling on to the time of Christ and Imperial Rome… Our miniature history series include The Crusades before journeying westwards to Europe and The English Civil War and later to the colourful spectacle of The Age of Napoleon.

Moving even further west across the Atlantic we depict the brave but doomed battle to defend The Alamo and the epic Indian Wars of the late 19th Century.

In more modern times King & Country helps tell the story of The First World War and the battles and campaigns in both the Middle East and the Western Front.

Following the end of that War we also explore in miniature the people and personalities that led to the terrible rise of The Third Reich in our Berlin ’38 series.

That inevitably leads on to The Second World War itself…

No other toy soldier company has designed or produced as many or as varied a selection of WW2 military and civilian figures, fighting vehicles, aircraft and accessories as King & Country!

From the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the Fall of Berlin in May 1945 we tell the story in authentic, hand-made detail.

As the real war raged across the globe K&C also reproduces the troops, tanks and many other items that replicates the battles and campaigns fought in Europe… The Pacific… North Africa and Russia.

More recent decades’ history can be seen in our relatively new Arab / Israeli conflict and Vietnam War series.

On a lighter note, K&C also produces several non-military ‘civilian’ ranges that attract both male and female collectors…

‘Streets of Old Hong Kong’ is an affectionate look-back at turn-of-the-19th & 20th Century Hong Kong with a huge range of traditionally dressed Chinese figures and attractive buildings of the period.

‘World of Dickens’ and ‘Streets of Olde London’ feature characters and people drawn from the works of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.

All of these and much, much more can be found among the World of Miniatures created by King & Country.

Our mission is simple… We bring history alive piece by piece.

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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39. Calplush

Calplush -- California discount wholesale retail, crane & carnival distributor and supplier of stuffed animals & plush. Get your copy of our catalogs for small and medium-sized businesses and organizations today! Los Angeles, CA

Where they're located: Los Angeles, California, USA

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40. My Plush Toy

Create your custom Plush toys from artwork or images. Custom Stuffed Toys of Art, Original Commissions, Personalized Doll Plush.

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41. ZZZ Bears

As defenders of sweet dreams, ZZZ Bears have taken an oath to defend against all nighttime enemies both under the bed and in the closet. And these military teddy bears never fail their mission.

How much they make: $120K/year
Where they're located: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
How much did it cost to start: $5K
Current team size: 0

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How I Built A Teddy Bear Business Helping Military Kids Sleep At Night

This case study is about how the founder of ZZZ Bears created and grew a line of military teddy bears named SGT SLEEPTIGHT, primarily selling to military families and gaining success through Facebook ads and partnerships with military exchanges, Target, and TAPS, while also learning important lessons such as the power of mentors and seeking help.

About
Justin started ZZZ Bears over 8 years ago
Revenue
Justin grew the business to $10K/month
Costs
It cost Justin $5000 to start the business
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