Brian Yuzna produced it and Martin Kitrosser directed. The Toy Maker is reported to have been shot back-to-back with Initiation, sharing crew and sets to stretch a direct-to-video budget across two pictures. George’s shop, credited alongside Tom Rainone for special makeup and mechanical effects, built the film’s catalog of murderous toys: clockwork soldiers, the legged Santa Ball, and Larry the Larva, a centipede-like toy. Larry’s attack uses a duplicate head so the toy can enter through the mouth and emerge at the eye. The credit covers the department; no crew source says who built which toy.
The climax reveals that the toy maker’s son Pino (Brian Bremer) is an android. Damage peels back his face to expose a compact interior of gears and wiring.