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We're not sure why Eddie in the middle there looks so morose--he's just won the 2007 "Invent-A-Toy" World Games, a toy design competition sponsored by By Kids For Kids. Eddie, Brooke and Russell each won a licensing contract from BKFK, legal support to patent their inventions, professional expertise to bring the product to market, a $5,000 US savings bond and a unicorn pony. (Okay, we made the last part up.)

Eddie invented "a game using air pumps, ping pong balls and a specially designed game board with holes," Brooke came up with "a toy campfire that kids can play with indoors," and Russell devised "a set of pipes and tubes and connections that kids can use to build a structure to send water through." Click here to see some clever ideas that do not technically defy child labor laws.