A company spun-off of Bandai in 1972 specifically to exploit the emerging market for toys made from characters licensed from animated and live-action childrens shows. In fact, Popy singlehandedly created and dominated the market until it began to falter in the late 1970s. Popy was absorbed by Bandai in the early 1980s. See also CHOGOKIN.

PoPy is a Python driver for PostgreSQL