In pictures: Dad's cool art made from kids' old toys

This colourful sculpture is one of many made by British artist Robert Bradford. And don't be surprised if bits look familiar - they're made out of children's old toys.

Robert Bradford started experimenting with toys for his artwork in 2004, after getting inspiration from his own children's toy boxes.

His first finished piece was an Alsatian dog, but he said he doesn't like it very much now. This sniffer dog is one of his more recent works.

It can take thousands of tiny toys to create one of the larger sculptures, like this toy girl.

His dog sculptures are so popular that people have even asked him to create toy versions of their own pets, like this pug dog.

But this Toy Soldier is one of his biggest pieces. It took almost two months to make, with each of the thousands of models, figures and game parts being carefully chosen.

Now Robert's beginning to branch out from plastic toys, using cuddly toys and household objects too.

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