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As a visual aid for Charles’s post below I would like to add this.

I forget where I found it, but it is a map (histogram?) of world toy exports. As we can see, if humanity is in fact going to be enslaved by toy soldiers come to life they will be Chinese toy soldiers, and only HK and Taiwan could possibly resist. Hoping the Japanese will save us with their Giant Robots?  That seems to be a thing of the past.