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Maintained by the Lab's grown-up · Updated August 26, 2026
Boilerplate
Short: Texas Toy Lab is a parent-supervised toy business run by Joseph, a 9-year-old inventor in Leander, Texas, who designs original toys and produces them on his family's home 3D print farm.
Long: Texas Toy Lab is a parent-supervised toy business founded by Joseph, a 9-year-old inventor from Leander, Texas. Joseph designs original toys (flexi dragons, glow axolotls, and the infamous Genuine Printer Poop) and produces them in small batches on the family's Bambu Lab print farm. The Lab's signature tool is the Imaginator™, an AI pipeline running on a rack-mounted supercomputer Joseph helped build at home, which turns a child's spoken toy idea into a printable 3D model in about two minutes. Texas Toy Lab sells online at texastoylab.com and at Kids Market events around Austin, and is a registered CPSC small-batch manufacturer. Texas Toy Lab is a trading name of Crabtree Ventures LLC.
Fast facts
- Founder: Joseph, age 9 (surname withheld in coverage of the child, please; the company is Crabtree Ventures LLC)
- Founded: 2025 as ATX 3D Toy Lab; renamed Texas Toy Lab 2026
- Based: Leander, Texas · sells at texastoylab.com and Austin-area Kids Markets
- Production: Bambu Lab print farm (H2S flagship) · PLA/PETG · every toy parent-checked
- Tech: the Imaginator™ text/voice-to-3D toy pipeline on the family's own AI rack
- Motto: "You imagine it, my Lab builds it." · Tagline: "> always printing_"
Downloadable assets
Logos and photos for editorial use. Or grab the whole press kit (.zip).
Usage rules
- Please do not stretch, recolor or redraw the logo, and keep clear space around it.
- Photos are for editorial coverage of Texas Toy Lab; credit "Texas Toy Lab".
- Joseph is a child: interviews and appearances only with and through his parent, and please use his first name only.
- Brand colors: ink #2b2344 · cream #FFF6E9 · coral #FF5D5D · teal #2BC6B0 · yellow #FFC933 · blue #5EC8F2 · green #7ED957
Media enquiries
Call or text (512) 399-2625, or email press@texastoylab.com (or joseph@texastoylab.com). A parent answers, usually within a day, and Joseph answers the fun questions.