Pictures From the Movie Little Man With Stuffed Toy

Woody: YOU! ARE! A! TOYYYY!! You're not the real Buzz Lightyear; you... you're an action figure! You are a child's plaything!
(Beat)
Buzz: You are a sad, strange little man—and you have my pity.

Behold! Living Toys! They can walk! They can talk! They can cook! They can take out the trash! They can drive! In fact, they can do so much, they almost don't need you!

We say "almost", because in some cases, these toys come alive only when humans aren't around. There may be an official or unofficial Masquerade in effect. Other times, they're created only because Love Imbues Life. Still, nothing says Fun for the Whole Family like Living Toys!

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Anime and Manga

Pucchan of Best Student Council at first appears to be a toy/Imaginary Friend of protagonist Rino. But when the other characters lock the puppet away (thinking Rino was trying to use Pucchan as an excuse for pranking) the puppet vanishes on its own, causes more havoc, and speaks independently of and controls the hand of whoever else he winds up on.
Kon from Bleach is probably a vague example of this, since although he's just a Mod Soul (e.g. fake), most of the time he inhabits a toy lion, and generally doesn't let the rest of Ichigo's family (except Papagami/Issun, who has known what Ichigo's been doing) know that he's "alive."
A few Digimon only look like toys, such as Puppetmon, Monzaemon and ToyAgumon.
A lot of Doraemon's gadgets can bring toys to life, in various ways. The most famous one is probably the wind-up key that serves as the focus for one movie, that permanently gives life to any object shaped like a living creature that has the key placed on its back and turned. The heroes use it to populate a planet with various adorable living dolls, but one monkey doll steals it and brings to life a biology lab skeleton, a "peeing boy" fountain, and a panda mascot. All three of them use their unique skills/appearances to help defeat the villains in the climax.

Pokota, a stuffed lion, from Himechan No Ribon was brought alive by magic and serves as the animal sidekick.
In I'm Gonna Be an Angel! Dispell, Eros and Muse are just dolls made alive by Silky's power as a respite from boredom and loneliness
Frigitta from Kero Kero Chime appears to be a living toy, despite denying it in her first appearance. Additionally, in her debut she's a villainess who turns people into toys which she can make follow her orders. After this, though, she's just a minor recurring Stalker with a Crush who's generally on the side of the heroes as much as her minor role allows.
Vivio's Intelligent Device Sacred Heart in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid takes the form of a floating plush bunny that communicates through charades, though technically speaking the toy is simply an outer casing for the actual device and is animated by magic. A chapter of the spin-off ViVid Life also had the devices of the three Aces and the Wolkenritter placed inside Vita's collection of stuffed bunnies.
One of the main mascots of Maho Girls Pretty Cure! is main character Mirai's teddy bear, Mofurun, who is magically given sentience when Mirai becomes a Pretty Cure. In the series' movie, Mofurun gets to become a Cure herself, taking on a humanoid form as a result (though per Word of God, Cure Mofurun is still filled with stuffing, essentially making her a human-sized living toy).
In Naruto, Sasori turned himself into one of these, by transforming himself into a puppet. Once he dies, he's used by Kankuro.
The manga Nui! plays this trope straight. Not only are dolls who're loved alive, they actually go all out to protect their owner and do their owner's bidding.
Among the first things visitors to the One Piece kingdom of Dressrosa see are its spicy Latin ladies and Living Toys living together with normal humans. Among those seen are a doll chasing a dog because it ripped its arm off, a toy soldier marionette that's also a town guard, and a toy robot in a baby stroller being pushed by a human woman. They were once human before falling victim to one of Doflamingo's Devil Fruit users, Sugar.
Citrus Town on Ponkickies 21 depicts the daily lives of toys living inside the eponymous toy box.
In one story arc of Ranma ½, which was later adapted into an OVA, Akane's consciousness is trapped within a doll, whose spirit inhabits her body to get revenge on Ranma.
The titular characters of Rozen Maiden are dolls that come alive once they are wound up.
Many Sanrio characters, like Hello Kitty and My Melody, are treated as living toys instead of animals in their anime series.
At least one of Keroro's invasion plans in Sgt. Frog involved bringing plastic models to life.
Leo and Yuki from Shounen Dolls can turn into humans and protect their master, Ageha. They can also communicate with her even in doll form.
Lots of examples from Yu-Gi-Oh!:
- Starting in Battle City, Jonouchi used Swordsman of Landstar, a cute, toy solider, and later added several more Landstar monsters to his deck.
- Roughly half of Yugi's deck that he uses when Yami isn't helping him is made up of monsters like this, such as Toy Magician and the Gadgets. The other half are heroic Warriors that children idolize, like Silent Swordsman.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Judai used many toy-like monsters (which, ironically, were far more popular than his Heroes when made into Real Life versions for the card game) like Spell Striker and Card Trooper.
- Most of Sho's Vehicroids resemble funny toy robots.
- Finally, Napoleon uses a deck with Toy Soldiers resembling infantry men from The French Revolution, his ace monster being Toy Emperor, which is based on Napoléon Bonaparte.
- Moving on to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Rua's deck used Morphatronics, which are more or less cute toy Transforming Mechas.
In Zatch Bell!, mamonos are pretty much demons who have taken the form of dolls. Zatch himself is a decent sort, but many others clearly are not.
The shared universe of Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns is home to the couple Baron Humbert von Gikkingen and Baroness Luisa, humanoid cat figurines possibly from Germany, possibly from another world. They were made by a doll maker's apprentice, who put his heart and soul into his creations, which is why they're alive. Whisper of the Heart generally treats the two as regular dolls, but there are two hints they're alive outside of Shizuku's imagination. For one, Shizuku learns about Luisa's existence from her conversation with the Baron, which is information she couldn't have gotten elsewhere. For the other, how the Baron holds his hat changes every scene he's in yet no one is ever depicted as repositioning him. That all said, the Baron is unambiguously alive in The Cat Returns, where he takes an active role as the leader of the Cat Bureau. His colleagues are the cat Muta and the gargoyle Toto. They save the human Haru from a forced marriage into cat royalty.

Asian Animation

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The toys in the Joys of Seasons episode "Toy Story" come to life to save Tibbie.
The inhabitants of Tickety Town, a town that exists behind a clock face in Tickety Toc.

Comic Books

Miskin in Amulet appears to be a living pink plush rabbit, but he's actually a robot. Somehow.
General Jumbo from The Beano was a boy with an army of toy soldiers that he controlled with a wrist-mounted device. He also had a toy navy when he briefly became Admiral Jumbo in the 1970s. In one annual, one of his toy soldiers named Pike gained sentience and turned evil after being outfitted with a new form of AI.
Dolmann, a quirky inventor, had a small robot doll for every occasion, though it was never very clear whether they legitimately possessed minds of their own or Dolmann was using his skills as a ventriloquist to pretend he had some company. Even so, they seemed to act of their own volition.
The inhabitants of Dolltopia are all living toys who came to the titular city to live their own lives rather than what humans dictate for them.
General Jumbo was parodied somewhat in Jack Staff with General Tubbs, an autistic boy who mobilized his toy army with his psychic powers; the control panel keyboard glove thing was just so he'd have something to do with his hands.
Annabelle, of Nightmares And Fairy Tales, is sentient but unable to communicate with any of her owners (except for her current one, Gwen, and nobody knows why).
Roy's Toys first appeared in the short-lived comic Nipper before a lengthy run in Buster. Roy's parents were always on at him to slim-down his huge toy collection, and he often came up with a reason to dispose of a toy. As soon as he left the room, however, the toys woke up and came up with a plan to persuade Roy to spare their comrade.
The Stuff of Legend also has this as its premise, being about a group of toys fighting their way through a fantasy world (in which they become what they were toys of) in order to rescue their owner, who has been kidnapped by the Boogeyman.
Toybox of Top Ten has a boxful of animated toys which she can command, inherited from her father Colonel Lilliput, a pastiche of General Jumbo.

Fan Works

Films — Animated

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue features a sentient Winnie the Pooh doll among other representations of cartoon characters.
In DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Webby uses one of her genie wishes to make her dolls come to life, which as it turns out was a really bad idea. While not evil, they did end up causing a lot of havoc.
Gnomeo and Juliet is about garden gnomes that come alive.
The LEGO Movie is full of sentient LEGO figures.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, with Pooh and his friends (sans Owl and Rabbit, who are real animals). Then there's the winking Pooh doll at the end after the book closes.
The Mouse and His Child combines this with a Mouse World, where toys and small animals live together.
The toys in The Night Before Christmas come alive on Christmas Eve for a song and dance party.
The eponymous Pinocchio is animated by the Blue Fairy, but it's strongly implied in the Disney version that Gepetto's love for Pinocchio is what causes the Blue Fairy to make him come alive. The story it was based on may well be the Trope Codifier.
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure has, among other examples, Raggedy Ann and Andy themselves, as well as Babette and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees.
Toy Story. Even the lawn gnomes are alive! Christmas Decorations too, which only raises further questions. And apparently, even hokey arts and crafts projects can also come alive. (Warning: May cause Existential Horror.) Except in the presence of humans (but not Sid).
Uglydolls has the Uglydolls and Perfection dolls. The Uglydolls are defective stuffed animals that were rejected from the construction line and live in their own misfit world. Meanwhile, the Perfection dolls are yarn-haired humanoid dolls that are instructed to be the perfect toy, where they then graduate into the "real world" and become a doll for a child. The plot starts up when a group of Uglydolls stumble into Perfection.
Wreck-It Ralph is the electronic version of this trope, featuring video game characters that come to life when their games are not being played. Similar to Toy Story, there seems to be a Masquerade in effect.
The 2000 Short Film The Tangerine Bear is about a male teddy bear who's mouth gets accidentally sewed upside down caushing his mouth to permantely form a frowning expression. After he doesn't get chosen by children at a department store during the Christmas season, he gets taken to a small toystore in the middle of town. Throughout the film, he befriends living toys such as a jack-in-the-box who's afraid of darkness and a tiny ballerina figurine on a music box.

Films — Live-Action

Teddy the robot teddy bear in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. "I'm not a toy."
Asylum: In "Mannikins of Horror", Dr. Byron has constructed a group of toy robots with human heads. When Dr. Martin crushes one beneath his foot, he discovers it has real internal organs.
J. F. Sebastian spends his lonely days retrofitting toys as robot companions in Blade Runner.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends in Christopher Robin are all living stuffed animals.
In Onryō! Azawarau Ningyō, Junichiro is killed because he's got evidence of a huge case of fraud by a colleague of his, Kitahara, who incidentally also is a former rival over Kumi, Junichiro's wife. The only thing of Junichiro that makes it back home is a doll he bought for his daughter Yukari. Said doll becomes a vessel for Junichiro's spirit, enabling him to protect his family from Kitahara and obtain justice for his murder. It kills Kitahara in an act of defending Kumi and Yukari when Kitahara's scheme comes to light. Thereafter, the doll returns to normal.
Killer Under The Bed: The Voodoo Doll that Kilee finds in the tool shed. Though it doesn't start moving onscreen until some time into the movie.
The Gorgonites in Small Soldiers. Justified by the fact they are in essence miniature androids. Although, the company that sells them promoted them as the bad guys.
Tales from the Hood 2: In "Good Golly", a golliwog comes to life (and grows to human size) to teach some racially insensitive teenagers a lesson.
The title character of Ted is a stuffed bear who gained sentience after his owner made a wish. 27 years later, he's still around but has since become much cruder.
Space Warriors 2000 has an Ultraman toy who came to life and narrates the past adventures of the Ultras to an unwitting child.
A rare example of a living toy in a horror film who is not evil: Rex, the stuffed dinosaur from Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Or at least, he's implied to be. Dylan insists that he keeps the Freddy-entity at bay, and the entity seems to think so too because he takes the time to slash the toy up upon finally breaching our reality. ^note It might just be an example of the monster's mind making it real, as it apparently makes itself into Freddy and the protagonist into the Final Girl through the same principle

Folklore

Russians have tales of little girls that have a doll that can actually talk as their companions.

Literature

The Adventures of Pinocchio is about a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy so he can grow up.

In Alien in a Small Town, the android Barney Estragon is eventually revealed to have started his life a hundred years ago as a storytelling toy duck, essentially a rich kid's Teddy Ruxpin. And then the kid grew up, and he was abandoned in a world where, tiny as he was, and having no legal rights at all, he spent years living literally as vermin. The passage of the Velveteen Act finally granted robots their freedom. He'd gone mad by then. But he got better.
The toy soldiers in the Stephen King short story Battleground (published in the collection Night Shift, and later developed for television in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes anthology). Despite being murderous, they're actually the heroes of the story, exacting vengeance against the Villain Protagonist — a hitman who just killed a toymaker.
The Bear that Nobody Wanted by Allan Ahlberg tells the rather tragic story of a teddy bear who goes through a major Break the Haughty phase and longs for a child who wants him. Along the way, he meets with many other toys, all of whom can talk amongst themselves but can't actually communicate with people. This leads to an incredibly sad scene where the bear is forced to watch as his current owner leaves him behind to go to the countryside during World War II and, later, as the boy's mother leaves. Both times, he silently begs to be taken along but can't be heard.
Corduroy comes to life and goes on an adventure after the store closes. He seems to be the only toy in the store capable of doing it, though.
The Corrupted Chronicles of Coco Claramisa: Fester the Clown is a clown doll Coco got from her first victim who comes to life with a desire to help Coco.

The dolls that have taken the Oath in The Doll People can move around so long as they don't get caught by the humans.
In The Dolls from Doll Street, the main characters are a group of sentient dolls. Strangely, though, when they receive dolls of their own for Christmas, those ones are inanimate.
In Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear, Dougal and his toy friends aren't only alive, but they can get drunk (on ginger beer, no less).
The illustrated stories of the Fairy Tails toys depict the Fairy Tails as toys coming to life at night to help their owners.
One of the many lands in The Faraway Tree is the Land of Toys, which is populated by... well, living toys, although they're the same size as humans. For a straighter example, at the end of the first book, Frannie gets a living doll for herself after having a slice of wishing cake. But said doll somehow disappears in subsequent books.
The main character of The Forty First Wink is assisted by a pirate crew composed of his childhood stuffed toys. It Makes Sense in Context.
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse which takes place in a Toyland of living toys, then further reveals that all of existence is a huge toy, God is an irresponsible little child who got it for his birthday, and Satan is an evil renegade toy who creates an army of cyborg spider women and George W. Bush to destroy the world. No, really.
The Indian in the Cupboard is a children's series about a boy who discovers how to magically transform a plastic Indian figure to life in his cabinet. Specifically, putting it in the cabinet and turning the key summons a random guy from the past, turning him toy-sized. The magic only works on plastic, and summons people from other time periods who resemble any affected toy, as well as sometimes sending the modern characters back in time.
The characters in La Carona and the Tin Frog by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bailey are Living Ornaments, although some, like the eponymous frog (who is clockwork) and the evil monkey (a puzzle whose eyes need shaken into place) also qualify as toys.
In The Midnight Folk, the young orphan Kay learns that his beloved toys, which were packed away after his parents died, came alive when nobody was looking and went on a quest to make things better for Kay.
The Night After Christmas by James Stevenson is about an old teddy bear and ragdoll who are thrown out with the trash after their children have received new toys for Christmas, and then have to find a way to get by in the outside world. Was animated in Britain as The Forgotten Toys and a number of sequels, starring Bob Hoskins as the gruff voice of Teddy.

No Flying in the House has a rather unusual example with Gloria and, later, Belinda. Both look like small wind-up toy animals, but they insist they're "real" and communicate with regular people perfectly well (in fact, Gloria gives performances for guests). On the other hand, Belinda seems to look a lot like a gold wind-up cat with emerald eyes that Anabelle's guardian used to own and Gloria later turns into a gold wind-up toy dog that can perform all the tricks she used to do, but no longer is alive. Since both of them are fairies, it's entirely possible they were possessing the toys in order to interact with the human characters.
Besides the titular character of The Nutcracker, the nighttime battle that Marie witnesses involves her brother's toy soldiers joining the fray. Later, the nutcracker takes Marie to the doll kingdom to be their queen, after she promises to love him no matter how he looks.

Jane Hissey's Old Bear and Friends stories, also adapted into a television series. They involve a bunch of sentient plush toys who share memories.
In Ollie's Odyssey, all toys and everything in the junk yard and abandoned amusement park are alive, and every kid's favorite toy is able to interact with their child.

"Softies" from 13 More Tales of Horror takes place in an alternative universe in which each human has a living toy friend called a 'companion'. The problem is, the companions are angry and secretly planning an uprising against their owners.
The Raggedy Ann books center around Marcella's toys, who come to life when she's not around (though they can communicate with animals just fine). The leaders are the titular Raggedy Ann and her brother, Andy, but there are quite a few dolls mentioned as reocurring characters.
J. R. R. Tolkien's children's book Roverandom tells about a small toy dog, which used to be a real dog before a sorcerer cursed him. His quest to regain his dogginess takes him under the sea and up to the moon.
Many of Rumer Godden's children's books, generally with dolls. Generally speaking, her dolls are conscious and can talk to each other, but are otherwise immobile and can only affect humans by wishing very hard. Some examples:
- The Doll's House (also know as Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House after its animated adaptation) - a family of mismatched dolls wish for a doll's house to live in. Well-known for its Sudden Downer Ending.
- Candyfloss - a doll who lives on a coconut shy at the fair is kidnapped by a vain, greedy little girl.
- Impunity Jane: The Story of a Pocket Doll - a boy steals a small doll from a friend and keeps her as he grows up.
- The Story of Holly and Ivy - a Christmas-themed doll named Holly wishes for a little girl to play with her while a lonely orphan called Ivy wishes for a doll to play with.
- Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - a story about two Japanese dolls and the house built for them.
In Spectral Stalkers, there is a toy clown living in a sphere that comes to life after his master gets captured and tied up, who frees his master before going back into the sphere.
In "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", the toys come alive when humans are asleep, and play their own games.
In Tales From The Wyrd Museum there is Ted, a talking teddy bear who travels back in time to World War II with the protagonist, Neil. The reason for the toy being alive is that it is inhabited by the soul of an American GI who wants to change the past.
All the characters of Teddy And Co are living toys.
In the short story Teddy Bear Tears, a living teddy bear is sent to the rubbish dump and cries. A fairy takes the tears and rubs them on the bear's owner's face so that she'll dream about him being at the dump.
While Greater Golems in Threadbare can take many forms, including the Animated Armor of Emmet, Threadbare and his crew are animated toys. One of the major benefits of this is that it seems that a doll of a race, when animated, gains that race template.
Toys Go Out and its sequels Toy Dance Party and Toys Come Home, by Emily Jenkins.
The Velveteen Rabbit tells the story of a crudely-made stuffed rabbit toy who tries to become a real rabbit because the wind-up toys mock him, saying that they are real because they can move. In this book all toys are sentient and animate, and it's a "skin horse" who tells the rabbit how to become Real.
In Who Loves Mr. Tubbs?, a girl owns two toys: a teddy bear named Mr. Tubbs and a doll named Suki, who are both sentient. Tubbs is jealous of Suki since the girl seems to love her more.
Winnie-the-Pooh does it with stuffed animals, who live in the Hundred Acre Wood and go on numerous adventures to places like the North Pole. However, in the stories they're treated like anthropomorphic animals, not living toys.
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the heroes discover a town inhabited by tiny little china dolls. The townsfolk are justifiably afraid of running or otherwise exerting themselves, for fear of breaking; they can be fixed, but the cracks such accidents cause never fade.

Live Action TV

Referenced on 30 Rock when Tracy says "My genius has come alive, like toys when your back is turned."
Andy Pandy provides a truly strange example. Andy plays with his best friend Teddy, a living teddy bear, all the time. Yet Looby Loo, Andy's rag doll, is played with as a toy by the other two and only comes to life when they're away. Averted with the remake, however, where she's as active as the rest of them

Invoked in Bewitched, where the baby witch Tabitha sometimes brings her toys to life. She can't make them able to talk though.
The Big Comfy Couch has Molly the Dolly, Loonette's best friend. She's a puppet who can't talk and instead expresses herself in word bubbles, which Loonette can easily understand. Their relationship borders on sisterly—many episodes open with Loonette mentioning a topic, Molly not understanding it, and the former proceeding to explain how it works.
Subversion of the evil version in an early episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which an animated ventriloquist dummy turns out to be a good (if lecherous) demon hunter who was killed in battle. (Not every demon on the show is evil, but the one in question was stealing people's bodily organs.)
One episode of Hi-5 involves a girl dreaming about her toys coming to life while taking a nap directly after playing with him.
Australian children's show Johnson and Friends, depicting the adventures of Johnson the toy elephant and his friends McDuff the concertina, Diesel the truck and Alfred the hot water bottle.
The eponymous Shoebox Zoo give their owner, Marnie, a bit of a surprise when they actually respond to her instruction to "Awake, for I am your Master!"
The Twilight Zone: The twist ending of "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" involves the characters finding out that they are toys.
Worzel Gummidge has the recurring character Aunt Sally— a lifesized, pompous, sentient wooden doll who Worzel the living scarecrow wants to marry. She also has a wooden doll doppelganger in one episode.

Music

"Raggedy Rag Doll Friend" from Even More Baby Songs has a girl dream about shrinking down to the size of her Captain Ersatz Raggedy Ann, which then comes to life and begins playing with her.
In Doctor Steel's music video for "Childhood Don't A-Go-Go", Steel breathes on his creeptastic dolls... which begin to come to life and follow him about his laboratory.
Gayla Peevey wrote a song called "Are My Ears On Straight?", sung from the perspective of a doll in a store window.
The music video for *NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" portrays the band as marionettes who fought with other toys for the attention of a pretty girl, reverting to their toy state when she turned around. They become real at the end of the video when she buys them.
The Preschool Popstars music video for "Daycare Dance Party" features a toy dinosaur, a toy robot, and a teddy bear dancing.

Newspaper Comics

Calvin and Hobbes might be an example... or then again, it might not. Hobbes might be an animated stuffed tiger, or it could be all in Calvin's imagination. Calvin, though, doesn't think that Hobbes is a Living Toy; he thinks he's a real (anthropomorphic) tiger. (Albeit a real tiger that gets put through the washing machine whenever Calvin's mom deems it necessary.) The comic is deliberately ambiguous about Hobbes' true nature.
Garfield implies that the titular fat cat's teddy bear Pooky could be alive. Pooky (off-screen) jumped through a hoop that Garfield only pretended to set up for him or rollerskate on his own. Also, in the 1987 storyline when Garfield had amnesia from a bonk to his head, Jon tries to restore his memory by showing him Pooky. The amnesiac Garfield dismissed Pooky stating he's an adult cat who doesn't need a teddy bear. In the very next panel, Pooky is shedding a Single Tear alongside Jon and Odie.

Puppet Shows

Stitches (voiced by Mario Lopez) from The Chica Show is a stuffed doll in the live-action segments, but comes to life as a cartoon after The Costume Coop closes.
Jim Henson's holiday special The Christmas Toy is effectively a proto-Toy Story. It later had a short-lived spin-off series, The Secret Life of Toys.
The Noddy Shop tells the story of a group of toys and a pet lobster who come to life when humans aren't around. In the second season, the toys could talk to the kids.
The Tweenies: In one episode, the protagonists imagine some living toys: Milo imagines an action figure and a talking toy plane, Jake imagines a clown doll, Bella imagines some performing toy mice, and Fizz imagines a singing fashion doll who doesn't want to be sold.

Pinball

Aerosmith has a living jack-in-the-box named Jacky.
Rudy the living ventriloquist dummy from Fun House. Not so much "good" as "not overtly evil Jerkass".

Professional Wrestling

Dragon Dragon of Chikara is plush toy brought to life...a gigantic plush toy at that.

Tabletop Games

The Mannekins from Changeling: The Lost are based around this, though it can be anything from a stuffed doll to a clockwork dancer and so on.
Fuzzy Heroes is a miniature wargame-style game about armies of toys fighting each other while the kids aren't around. It uses real stuffed animals and toys that the players have lying around as units.
The page quote was parodied by GURPS when it offered a line of stuffed animal Cthulhu toys. The ad text read in part: "tonight's the night the teddy bears summon Cthulhu!"
German game Plüsch, Power & Plunder is about living plushies.
Savage Worlds setting Toy Troopers combines this with weird war setting.
Yu-Gi-Oh! examples:
- Close inspection on the limbs of the Madolche artworks in the (particularly the Beasts, including the horse that Madolche Chouxvalier rides) shows what appear to be sewing seams, implying they are all plushies or dolls. This is further evidenced by Mewfeuille and Tiaramisu's artwork, which have much smaller animals in them that look relatively normal, if a bit oddly-colored. The Trap Card Madolche Nights eventually confirmed this, where they are shown as toys in a child's bedroom at night.
- Ghostrick Doll is based on a Bisque Doll, a doll made mostly or entirely of bisque porcelain and characterized by their highly realistic features and skin-like texture. These dolls were at their most popular in the late 1800's, and are now considered highly valuable among collectors. In addition, due to their eerie wide-eyed stares and historical nature these dolls have recently become pop culture fixtures in horror movies– often related to the ghosts of young girls.

Theatre

French musical "Le Soldat rose" ◊ ("Pink Soldier").They say toys's moves are Invisible to Adults.
In Mary Poppins, the song "Playing the Game" involves Mary Poppins bringing the kids' toys to life. The toys aren't evil, but they do get very angry with their owners for playing rough with them.

Video Games

The Army Men series is about a continual war between those little plastic soldiers, green and tan. (And sometimes, blue and yellow)
Kid Ultra from Battleborn was originally designed as a toy robot but in a similar vein to Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, thinks he's an actual superhero. Specifically, he was originally designed by Phoebe to be a childcare providing robot, a thing that came about from the lack of a proper playmate in the rich heiress' parental affection deficient childhood. During Kid Ultra's initial startup sequence however, the connection to the Magna Carta was severed leaving him no external reference or personality data banks to draw from. He thus instead drew info from the only other available source, the marketing-approved entertainment holo library pre-loaded into his memory which contained over 60,000 cartoons, comics, movies, and video games intended for placating and educating children. As a result, he thinks he's an actual superhero in a cartoon universe.
Bear With Me: Most of the characters aside from Amber, her family, and the Red Man seem to be this.
- The toys seem to fall into either "imaginary friend" or "I've got no Strings" on the Sliding Scale of Living Toys. Ted seemed very reluctant for Amber to go to her parents for help, and all of the stuffed animals hold Amber in the highest regard so it's unlikely they interact with anyone other than her and each other. There's also the line at the end of Episode One between Amber and Ted. Ted states that his old partner "grew up".
- At the same time, it's still clear the toys have complex inner lives without Amber, and there are even sections of the game where you play as Ted without Amber being present at all.
The toys in the Sandersons' house in Chibi-Robo! were brought to life by aliens.
The short-lived Sega series Clockwork Knight. In this series, the player controlled a toy knight who went through the various rooms of a house to fight evil toys and save the Damsel in Distress, a princess named Chelsea.
Disney Infinity, another crossover game, takes this concept even further - the characters actually are animate toys that even break apart upon defeat. (Coincidentally, both Smash and Infinity have respective lines of NFC figures that can be used to summon the characters in-game.) Bonus points in that some of the Toy Story characters are playable - essentially living toy versions of living toys.
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden: Due to the animating power of magical organs, a boy's doll is made alive.
Guardian's Crusade actually has living toys whom you can find and collect for use in battle. There's 70 of those bastards. Good luck.
The Gotcha Borgs, from Gotcha Force, although they're technically small alien robots. They're still obviously meant to resemble toys though.
In Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Another Wonderful Life, your child's stuffed bear will occasionally come alive when no one else is in the room.
Katamari Damacy had some of these running around in some levels.
Keep Out is set in a world where toys are alive, and the world is deadly to them.
Familiars in Kingdom of Loathing include teddy bears and toy soldiers.
The Toy Box skin line in Leagueof Legends are composed mostly of toys owned by Dino Gnar. Some examples are Renektoy Rekenton (an action figure that had high demand back in 1996) and Moo Moo Alistar (a limited edition figurine).
The 2019 remake for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the Switch seems to imply this. The tops of trees, the grass and buildings have a glossy sheen to them that looks like it is all made out of porcelain or plasticine material; the overall layout of the world and design all looks like it takes place within a diorama box model (there's even the effect to tilt and shift it and zoom in and out, making it seem it takes place within a world of toys secured in a box), and the characters inhibiting it are all done up to look like little Fisher-Price toys with their Black Bead Eyes and simplified, cutesy, chibified designs that makes it look different from other Zelda games. Link, just like everyone else in this game's artstyle, looks like a tiny figurine. People even nickname this version of Link "Toy Link."
Sack-people in LittleBigPlanet are supposedly hand-stitched dolls.
Jasmin from Lost Smile and Strange Circus is a living doll.
There's an area in MapleStory called Ludibrium that has Good and Evil examples.
- Ludibrum itself is a city built atop two towers that has a massive basement that includes a toy factory and a clock tower, the bottom of which might even be in another dimension. The ordinary citizens of the city and the workers below are toys, and they're benign. The monsters in either tower and in the factory are also toys, and within the clock tower there are two paths with different monsters. They're a lot nastier.
- The Warped Path of Time takes you through Monster Clowns, Ghost Pirates (and Vikings), and finally a giant boss called the Gatekeeper.
- On the other side, the Forgotten Path of Time, there are teddy bears possessed by their own souls, animated clocks with More Teeth than the Osmond Family, teddy bears possessed by creepier ghosts, and ghosts chained to pocketwatches. And the boss of THAT side just happens to be Thanatos.
- At the end of both paths is a great pavilion with an area only accessible by someone with a particular quest. This area has Papulatus Clock, a boss that looks like a ghostly little blue thing with a curly sprout atop its head sitting in a flying Time Machine designed like a toy clock with giant robot hands. He's a challenge, and fairly sinister in his own right if you read his backstory.
The Mini-Marios in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games are Living Toys. That, or at least they have very good AI.
HAVE Online / MicroVolts is a Korean Online Multiplayer THIRD-person-shooter (not even class-based) that uses anime figurines or those figure-posing... figures that artists use to assist in drawing positions as the characters.
One of the stages in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 has the Ouendan helping a stuffed monkey and a toy soldier who were thrown away by accident get home.
Pacify: The creepy dolls scattered around the Haunted House sometimes come to life.
Pokémon
- Claydol, according to the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl/Platinum Pokedex, is "An ancient clay figurine that came to life as a Pokémon from exposure to a mysterious ray of light." By extension, this also applies to its unevolved form, Baltoy.
- Banette is a living toy out seeking for the owner who threw it away...
- Sun/Moon gives us Stufful, an adorable stuffed bear Pokemon that Hates Being Touched. There's even a little tag on its rear end!
Power Pete is set in a toy store full of living toys. The Mooks made of cheap plastic are not so resilient.
Re-Volt's Excuse Plot has you racing animated radio control cars.
Sophies Guardian: The Player Character is a dual gun-wielding Teddy Bear, and the enemies are Creepy Dolls.
Geno from Super Mario RPG, sort of. Technically, he's a benign spirit from the Star Road who takes possession of an ordinary toy doll and enlarges it to human-size to use as a body.
Super Smash Bros. plays with this trope (no pun intended). The fighters aren't animate toys per se, but have been shown or confirmed to be plush dolls ^note Smash 64 only or trophies in the "real world", and become living fighters in the "world of imagination" where the games take place. The level of "toy-ness" that is shown or implied varies from game to game (becoming more and more downplayed in the last two installments), but given the various bits of Canon Welding with some of the characters' home franchises, this doesn't preclude the fighters from being tangible living characters on some level of existence, and said "world of imagination" from being a functioning fictional universe in its own right.
Team Fortress 2:
- Several popular maps place the players in this position - it is very odd playing an FPS from an action figure's point of view.
- Assist Kill accessories show up on the killfeed as getting assists to players in Pyroland, indicating they at least THINK they're alive. All of them are a stuffed animal of some kind, except the Medic's very real pet bird, Archimedes.
Teddy Together is a Virtual Pet game that has you liking after a living teddy bear.
TinkerQuarry: The Dollhouse is a world inhabited by living toy animals. Most, if not all, are implied to have previously belonged to the protagonist, a little girl who somehow ends up in the Dollhouse.
Touhou has Medicine Melancholy, who (ironically enough, considering her name) controls poison. She's one of the creepier characters in the series, playfully talking about how wonderful poison is, how it paralyzes its victims, how they die a painful death...

The Player Character of Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found is a living toy exploring a randomly-generated house.
Namco's Toy Pop: PINO AND ACHA ARE GOING TO MAJYO'S CASTLE TO SAVE FRIEND
Toy Soldiers, an Xbox Strategy game, focuses on two sides of a WW1 tin soldier toy set, Germans vs. the British/French, who carry out large, full scale battles inside a diorama which stands on a small table (just to give the audience an idea of the proportions). The player's main goal is to defend his "toy box" against the infantry, cavalry, tanks, and biplanes of the foe, using their own tanks, cannons, machine guns, AA-guns, howitzers, and aeroplanes, while (only in Multiplayer) trying to take over the foe's toy box by sending their own soldiers. Great idea and great theme. The player will surely enjoy the toffee apples flying around, while having a pozzy on japan, with some nice gunfire.
The eponymous Hundred Knight from The Witch And The Hundred Knight 2 was originally a doll that Milm received from her sister Amalie for good luck for her surgery to cure her of her Witch Disease. When the surgery fails and Milm transforms into the witch Chelka, Chelka uses her powers to animate her doll to act as her servant. While Chelka did animate him, it is ultimately loyal to the more heroic Amalie.

Visual Novels

In Umineko: When They Cry, Sakutarou is a variation on this. After Maria places a soul in him, he can talk with her and play with her, although he no longer looks like a stuffed animal to her. Instead, he looks like a little, half-human, half-animal boy. However, no one else can see him talk, and if he talks to Maria, anyone else sees it as Maria speaking in a funny voice, and he always looks like a stuffed animal to them. However, this is implied to all be in Maria's head; from a mundane perspective, Sakutaro is really just a Companion Cube and Maria only pretends he's alive to cope with her loneliness.

Webcomics

Achewood features several living stuffed animals (although nowadays, the comic focuses more on the adventures of talking house cats).

Wendy weasel from Cwen's Quest, who was given life to help a young Cwen escape from a library. Wendy can read, Cwen could not.

Web Original

Arby 'n' the Chief and it's predecessor Master Chief Sucks At Halo is a long running series about two Halo action figures that come to life and play video games and do hilarious things around the house. The fifth season even deconstructs the entire concept of Living Toys, with Arbiter trying to give his life meaning. Although this technically goes under good examples, Chief is one mean little bastard of a troll.
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse portrays Barbie and her crew as dolls that can talk and move by themselves.

DSBT InsaniT: Bear is a living teddy bear, and Duck is a living wooden toy duck on wheels.
The online blog "''hispersonaljoy'' "
The action figures of I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC, though only Deadpool (who else?) is truly aware that he is a toy.
Kid Time Storytime: All of the characters portrayed by toys are referred to as "puppets" in-universe (even those played by plushies or action figures), suggesting that they're living toys, even though in-universe they can do things like eat and reproduce.

Neopets:
- The Plushie paint brush makes a Neopet look like a living stuffed toy.
- The Toy paint brush makes the Neopet look like a windup toy.
SCP Foundation: SCP-2295 is a teddy bear that can make replacement organs and tissue out of fabric and successfully transplant them in any near human who needs them (i.e. it can sew new kidneys for someone who's own kidneys are failing). The cloth organs and tissue work perfectly, exactly the same as real ones would. The only limit is that it can't do anything about brain tissue. It got very sad and scared when it couldn't figure out how to fix a patient's cerebral hemorrhage, resorting to giving the patient a candy bar and a hug while crying.
The entire premise of The Secret Life of Dolls. Nearly all of Cleolinda's dolls are alive (there are a few exceptions mentioned in passing, but those ones aren't spoken of very much). Cleo constantly interacts with the dolls, treating them like roommates and often being called in to mediate their various dramas, and notes that while they all carry over the personalities of the fictional characters they're of (even ones that aren't officially licensed products, like Iorek the Webkinz polar bear), it's often unclear how much of their stories they know.

This little video, where two companion dolls are separated.

Western Animation

The Animal Shelf follows five walking, talking soft toys: Gumpa the bear, Little Mutt the dog, Woeful the monkey, Getup the giraffe, and Stripey the zebra.
Arthur: All toys are sentient and can understand Baby Language. They only move and talk around babies and non-anthropomorphic animals.
Babar's episode during the 2000s reboot series "Land of Toys" the cast visits a country made of living sentient toys.
Betty Boop is one in her cartoon, "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers".
Several characters from Bump in the Night were living toys.
- Molly Coddle, a comfort doll with mismatched eyes and limbs who is one of Mr. Bumpy's two best friends.
- The Cute Dolls, a Girl Posse of Barbie-esque dolls.
- Destructo, a toy robot who is often on Mr. Bumpy's case whenever he breaks the rules.
The Cow and Chicken episode "Cow's Toys" reveals that Cow's toys Manure the Bear, Crabs the Warthog, and Piles the Beaver are actually alive. In the episode, Manure the Bear reads on his tag that he was "made in Hong Kong". The toys misinterpret this as indicating that their original owner was a woman named Maiden Hong Kong and go on a journey to find her.
The Crayon Box: The cast of the show are a bunch of living toys residing in a toy store.
The toys in Doc McStuffins are brought to life using Doc's stethoscope.
On The Fairly OddParents, Timmy spends one episode shrunken down to toy size and playing with a Crimson Chin doll that Cosmo and Wanda brought to life.
The main characters of The Forgotten Toys are an ill-tempered teddy bear named Teddy, and an old rag doll named Annie.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. "Toys will be Toys" is Where Billy asks Grim to make his dinobonoid figures come alive and be their size, running out of time by then when Grim's magic lasts for it.
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs: The dinosaurs are a bunch of living toys, that can even do things like eat and sneeze. Non-living toys also come to life whenever they go to Dino World.
Jackie Chan Adventures: Jade's moose doll, Super Moose, was brought to life by the Rat Talisman in several episodes to act as an aide. There was also an evil puppet version of the Monkey King from Journey to the West who could come to life by switching places with a living being, which would then turn into a puppet in his stead while the Monkey King ran around causing trouble.
- Earlier than both of these examples, the Gnomekop doll powered from the Rat Talisman in the episode "Tough Break".
In Lalaloopsy, the protagonists are living ragdolls and their pets are living plushies.
The Loud House:
- Zigzagged for Mr. Coconuts, Mrs. Appleblossom, and Colonel Crackers the ventriloquists' dummies. It's left ambiguous as to whether they're alive or if their owners are just that good.
- In the short "Robot Sitcom", there is a walking, talking teddy bear named Teddy Bear. No explanation is given for his sentience, but perhaps Lisa is to blame.
In Monkey Dust, both Mr. Hoppy and Mr. Skatey fit. Psychopathic, murderous toys. Or Are They?
In ¡Mucha Lucha!, Rikochet owned a friendly living action figure named El Rey. In one episode, he discovered that El Rey was competing in a wrestling competition with other Living Toys (that occasionally became a Deadly Game, unfotunately).
Muppet Babies (1984) had living toys in the song "Calling All Toys" from the episode "Muppets in Toyland".
The toys in Power Players are awakened after they are activated by the Power Bandz.
ReBoot
- Parodied this with a GameCube, in the episode "Firewall". Experts believe that this is the only time this trope has ever been crossed with send-ups of James Bond and Wacky Races.
- This immediately followed an episode with a game starring Rocky the Rabbid Racoon.
- They did it again in a later episode, this time saturated with Star Wars references, and the return of the Rabbid Racoon.
Mr. Buns from Ruby Gloom is a strange example. The other characters treat him as if he's alive, and he seems to do things when he's not on-screen... but whenever he's on-screen, he's just a lifeless sock-bunny. In perhaps the most extreme case, he's fencing with Poe from just off-screen, only for the sword to drop the moment he's visible in the frame.
- Many people think that Ruby Gloom herself is, in fact, a Living Doll. This is supported by her hobby of sewing, pure white skin, and the stitches around her eyes.
The Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Well, sort of. Apparently, the idea is, they are like this because they're neglected and unwanted, which is why they qualify for this Trope. (The special suggests that all toys are Level 2 on the Sliding Scale of Living Toys.)
The Secret World of Benjamin Bear: In the world of this series, all Teddy Bears are alive (but forbid themselves from being seen moving by humans), and have their own secret world hidden in humanity's.
Parodied in one of the Oxymoron Commercials in Sheep in the Big City which advertises a robot toy that's SO COOL, it can do anything: walk, talk (in both English and French), cook, hold down a good job, take out the garbage, and "party all night long." The trouble is that the robot is so incredibly awesome that it's inevitably better than any child who might own it, leading to the slogan: "IT'S COOLER THAN YOU!"
Although it's not overly emphasized, the main character of Special Agent Oso, is actually a plush toy bear. Sometimes when he appears to help a child, they'll shout "Special Agent Oso!" and he'll reply "In the plush!" It's not clear, but his cohorts in the organization U.N.I.Q.U.E. are all animals as well and therefore may also be toys.
Binoo of Toopy and Binoo is a sentient plush cat.

Evil Examples

Anime & Manga

Mary from Ghost Stories/Gakkou no Kaidan, though she has no idea that she is causing harm...
In Paranoia Agent, Tsuki's Maromi toy frequently comes to life, usually to comfort her and assure her she's not at fault for the things that happen. While he's not exactly evil, he's still played as being creepy and a lot of the things he does (keeping Chief Ikari in a Lotus-Eater Machine to fulfill Tsuki's escapist fantasy of having a loving father and preventing him from fighting Lil' Slugger, for example) don't help matters. Of course, it's also left in the air whether or not Tsuki's hallucinating any or all of it.
Evil Toys from Yu-Gi-Oh!:
- Depends on your definition of "evil", but: In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, there was Alice, originally a doll with a spirit inside her that stood on a mantle of a faculty lounge in the school. After a student blamed a card for his poor dueling and tore it in half (it was an Obelisk student, big surprise), she grew to hate duelists, and wanted to punish them. She lured Judai into a Shadow Duel in an attempt to drive him to a Despair Event Horizon, using a deck full of monsters resembling evil dolls, but Judai's vibrant personality never wavered, and he convinced her to reject despair and accept hope. When last seen, she was back on the mantle again - smiling.
- A similar villain was Princess Cologne from the manga version of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, who worked for Dr. Faker because he gave her a soul a threatened to take it from her if she failed him. As it turned out, she had once been a doll who was thrown away by a rich girl who happened to be Cathy. Cathy realized her mistake and apologized, and despite failing her mission, she was saved from that grim punishment by her friend Grandpa Demetto, who gave her his soul to save her. (He may or may not have been a Living Toy as well, along with someone who could fix them; it wasn't clear exactly what he was.) (She also has an actual card in the game with her likeness, and that does seem to fit the overall Trope too, although she seems even less evil here, given the effect.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, roughly half of Sora Shiun'in's deck consists of monsters called Fluffal, cute, cuddly stuffed animals that better fit the Good examples above. However, by fusing them with Fiends called Edge Imps (the other half of his deck) he can summon his aces, Fusion Monsters called Frightfurs, which are demonic corruptions of the Fluffals covered with knives and blades.