Toyetic
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Toyetic is a term for a fictional character or object that would be easy to manufacture into a marketable toy, or for a movie, television show, comic book or similar property which abounds in such characters and objects. Saturday morning cartoons in the early 80-90s were well known for this practice, in particular.
Though it is popularly believed that the term was coined as a bit of self-aware humor on the cult classic cartoon series Freakazoid, the word was actually coined back in 1977 when an associate of future Freakazoid producer Steven Spielberg told him that Spielberg's latest movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind sounded great, but not toyetic. The anecdote appeared in print in a Washington Post article later that year.