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Dah Yang Toys

 

Dah Yang Toy Industrial Co., Ltd. or Dah Yang Toys - sometimes also DYTOY - is a Taiwanese plastic toy manufacturer founded in 1958 that sold and exported a variety of electromechanical toys that were often sold in gift shops or mall stands including the Playful Penguin Race, ferret ball toy, and Jumping Dolphins. In the 1970s Dah Yang produced copies of toys like like Plarail and Super Rail and released many contracted, original, and derived designs in the 1980s.

Tokyo Playthings Ltd., also knows as Toplay Ltd and TPS Toplay, who manufactured tin toys in the late 1950s and 1960s, designed several of Dah Yang's 1980s toys including the Playful Penguin Race, Jumping Dolphins, and Kinsman Robot. Some Dah Yang toys were based on designs seemingly licensed from Toybox.

Dah Yang toys in my collection include...

Year	Set name	Description	Photo
1970s	D-51 Deluxe Freight Train Set	Taiwanese clone of an early 1970s Plarail D51, flatbed, and well wagon converted to run on knockoff Yonezawa Shushupoppo-type track
1985	City Interchange	Motorized downhill racing toy designed by Toybox in the style of a city highway with "realistic traffic action"
1986	Tumbling Fishing Choo Choo	Odd combination of the Tumbling Choo Choo and the rotating fishing game toy