Toys and Colors is an American-based YouTube channel headquartered at Murrieta, California that focuses on showing off various toys and activities that children can perform such as playing games. challenges, and "pretend play".
Overview[]
The videos come with various music of pre-established songs like "Wheels on the Bus" which technically make these consider music videos for kids despite kids not really knowing the concepts of music videos which falls under YouTube Musicians.
Some of the exotic toys that would be shown would include dressing up as a soda machine, washing machine, and cooking which would out of the budge of most parents. Toys and Colors has a lot of vibrant colors that stand out in the videos, and there are pretend play videos which are hosted by a couple young children. One of them was Joyce's relative, Liam.
Some videos would be spin-offs of other children videos such as "Johnny Johnny Yes Papa", and the videos are sometimes handheld which is somewhat similar to the filming of plush videos. The crew of the channel appear to be of Southeast Asian descent with no other ethnic groups shown on this channel.
Toys and Colors also held an annual compilation videos that includes older videos, and it occurs once every year.
As of January 1, 2023, there are 899+ available Toys and Colors videos, 444+ on ToysPlay, and 570+ on Kids Play.
History[]
Toys and Colors was founded on March 17, 2016. Despite this, its first video was released on November 7, 2017, 1 year after it joined. It was started with a different house. The director then moved the house on Christmas Day 2017. Immediately, TC Began uploading constantly, typically every other day.
On mid-2019, a video was found deleted and was replaced with another video, becoming the first video to be deleted.
On September 18, 2019, Toys and Colors launched its sub-channel Crafty Hacks. Its first video was launched weeks later. In early 2020, before the COVID-19 Pandemic strikes the US, Crafty Hacks moved their house. Crafty Hacks included the former Toys and Colors members, this includes Joyce.
On October 26, 2019, "Colors Song" was created. This song also became a theme song of the channel until 2022. The performer was unknown.
On 2020, Toys and Colors' subscribers and views boomed regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. On October 2020, Toys and Colors launched its new app, Toys and Colors app
On 2021, Toys and Colors partnered with pocket.watch.
On August 20, 2021, another video was found deleted.
On June 22, 2022, Crafty Hacks once again shared the props of Toys and Colors, including the swimming pool.
On October 19, 2022, The 2022 version of "Colors Song" was created, replacing the 2019 version. This time, it was performed by Alex, Jannie, Emma, and Eric. It also became the theme song of "Kaleidoscope City", which was a planned series expecting to release on 2023-24 under pocket.watch
On February 2022, Current Toys and Colors members began appearing on Crafty Hacks as "special appearances"(cameo).
Other Channels[]
Non-English Channels[]
- Toys and Colors Español (Juguetes y Colores): Spanish channel
- Toys and Colors Tiếng Việt (Đồ Chơi Sắc Màu): Vietnamese channel (Defunct)
- Toys and Colors 한국인 (장난감과 색상): Korean Channel (Defunct)
- Toys and Colors Thai (ของเล่นและสีสัน ไทย): Thai Channel
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- Toys and Colors Shorts: Shorter version of Toys and Colors videos.
- ToysPlay: Second channel, it focuses on extra videos that were never uploaded, as well as clip compilations.
- Kids Play: Viet-based Toys and Colors Division
- Kids Songs: Defunct Nursery Rhyme channel from Kids Play
- Bouncy Beats: Nursery Rhyme channel from Toys and Colors, mainly consisting of original rhymes.
- Crafty Hacks: Originally a Toys and Colors division, a sitcom life hacks channel. See here
Cast[]
Like Troom Troom, Toys and Colors' members have their own social medias and identities. Some of which appear to come from the Nguyen Family. Please note that most of their accounts are private.
- Auntie Joyce (Known as Joyce in Crafty Hacks) is played by Angela Hua, her Instagram is @hiembummie, and her Facebook is angela.hua.5680.
- Auntie Lily's real name is Elica Joy, her Instagram is @elicajoy.
- Uncle Sam's real name is unknown. His Instagram is @yeah_like_the_color. He is also the producer of the channel.
- Uncle Tim is played by Timmy Nguyen, his Instagram is @timmehtizzle.
- Uncle Jason is played by Jacob Nguyen, his Instagram is @all_of_my_usernames_are_taken.
- Uncle Max's real name is unknown. His Instagram is @ickest.mp3
Characters[]
- Auntie Joyce
- Auntie Lily
- Auntie Rose
- Auntie Amy
- Auntie Beth
- Uncle K
- Uncle John
- Uncle Tim
- Uncle Mike
- Uncle Sam
- Uncle George
- Uncle Jay
- Uncle Jason
- Uncle Roy
- Uncle Jim
- Uncle Max
- Michael
- Vinnie
- Alex
- Eric
- Lyndon
- Liam
- Kaden
- Andrew
- Joseph
- Jannie
- Emma
- Wendy
- Lucy
- Ellie
- Charolette
- Maddie
- Andrea
- Miley
- Dax
- ChiChi
- Matcha
- Baby Rainbow
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: March 23, 2018
- 2 million subscribers: May 30, 2018
- 3 million subscribers: July 7, 2018
- 4 million subscribers: August 10, 2018
- 5 million subscribers: September 21, 2018
- 6 million subscribers: October 31, 2018
- 7 million subscribers: December 11, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: January 15, 2019
- 9 million subscribers: February 19, 2019
- 10 million subscribers: March 15, 2019
- 11 million subscribers: April 18, 2019
- 12 million subscribers: May 13, 2019
- 13 million subscribers: June 9, 2019
- 14 million subscribers: July 2, 2019
- 15 million subscribers: August 25, 2019
- 16 million subscribers: October 17, 2019
- 17 million subscribers: November 29, 2019
- 18 million subscribers: January 11, 2020
- 19 million subscribers: March 6, 2020
- 20 million subscribers: March 29, 2020
- 21 million subscribers: April 21, 2020
- 22 million subscribers: May 17, 2020
- 23 million subscribers: June 13, 2020
- 24 million subscribers: July 15, 2020
- 25 million subscribers: September 2, 2020
- 26 million subscribers: October 9, 2020
- 27 million subscribers: November 16, 2020
- 28 million subscribers: December 30, 2020
- 29 million subscribers: February 13, 2021
- 30 million subscribers: March 21, 2021
- 31 million subscribers: May 21, 2021
- 32 million subscribers: July 19, 2021
- 33 million subscribers: December 2, 2021
- 34 million subscribers: February 4, 2022
- 35 million subscribers: March 24, 2022
- 36 million subscribers: May 29, 2022
- 37 million subscribers: September 18, 2022
- 38 million subscribers: December 10, 2022
- 39 million subscribers: April 9, 2023
- 40 million subscribers: June 24, 2023
- 41 million subscribers: August 9, 2023
- 42 million subscribers: September 1, 2023
- 43 million subscribers: September 17, 2023
- 44 million subscribers: October 5, 2023
- 45 million subscribers: October 22, 2023
- 46 million subscribers: November 4, 2023
- 47 million subscribers: November 15, 2023
- 48 million subscribers: November 27, 2023
- 49 million subscribers: December 14, 2023
- 50 million subscribers: January 2, 2024
- 51 million subscribers: January 27, 2024
- 52 million subscribers: February 18, 2024
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: June 20, 2018
- 2 billion views: August 23, 2018
- 3 billion views: October 31, 2018
- 4 billion views: December 31, 2018
- 5 billion views: February 11, 2019
- 6 billion views: March 26, 2019
- 7 billion views: May 9, 2019
- 8 billion views: June 15, 2019
- 9 billion views: July 23, 2019
- 10 billion views: September 29, 2019
- 11 billion views: November 14, 2019
- 12 billion views: December 25, 2019
- 13 billion views: February 9, 2020
- 14 billion views: March 24, 2020
- 15 billion views: April 25, 2020
- 16 billion views: May 24, 2020
- 17 billion views: June 24, 2020
- 18 billion views: July 24, 2020
- 19 billion views: September 1, 2020
- 20 billion views: October 9, 2020
- 21 billion views: October 27, 2020
- 22 billion views: November 17, 2020
- 23 billion views: December 9, 2020
- 24 billion views: January 1, 2021
- 25 billion views: January 27, 2021
- 26 billion views: February 19, 2021
- 27 billion views: March 17, 2021
- 28 billion views: April 15, 2021
- 29 billion views: May 16, 2021
- 30 billion views: June 20, 2021
- 31 billion views: August 12, 2021
- 32 billion views: September 23, 2021
- 33 billion views: November 7, 2021
- 34 billion views: December 13, 2021
- 35 billion views: January 9, 2022
- 36 billion views: February 4, 2022
- 37 billion views: February 28, 2022
- 38 billion views: April 6, 2022
- 39 billion views: May 15, 2022
- 40 billion views: June 21, 2022
- 41 billion views: August 11, 2022
- 42 billion views: September 21, 2022
- 43 billion views: November 13, 2022
- 44 billion views: January 6, 2023
- 45 billion views: March 15, 2023
- 46 billion views: May 16, 2023
- 47 billion views: July 13, 2023
- 48 billion views: August 20, 2023
- 49 billion views: September 10, 2023
- 50 billion views: September 29, 2023