Toy With It  Advice from an experienced toy inventor about
coming up with and developing your ideas  Larry Schwarz started
his inventing career years ago-when he was a kid, actually, and
he had a habit of taking his toys apart and then gluing the
parts back together in different configurations. Even when he
was in law school, Schwarz couldn't resist doodling his toy
ideas on notebook paper. And so, in 1997, he gave up his law
career and formed Rumpus Corp., now a multimillion-dollar New
York City toy company with 36 employees.  Schwarz comes up with
ideas all the time-in fact, he filled 26 notebooks while in law
school. So how is he constantly able to come up with fresh ideas
when most people struggle to find just one? It all comes down to
his inventing philosophy: "I think toys should be fun. I look
for toys with an open approach that kids can find their own way
to play with. I want kids to be surprised, and I want the toys
to be unpredictable."  And Schwarz's inventions are anything but
predictable. Two of