AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JUNE 24, 1996
                                                   REGISTRATION NO. 333-_____
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                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                                   FORM S-3
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                          THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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                                TYCO TOYS, INC.
            (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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               DELAWARE                              13-3319358
    (State or other jurisdiction of     (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
    incorporation or organization)
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                                                 GARY S. BAUGHMAN
                                       PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
     TYCO TOYS, INC.                               TYCO TOYS, INC.
  6000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE                         6000 MIDLANTIC DRIVE
 MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08034                      MOUNT LAUREL, NJ  08054
     (609) 234-2400                              (609) 234-7400
(Address, including zip code,             Address, including zip code, and
and telephone number, including            telephone number, including
area code, of registrant's principal       area code, of registrant's
    executive offices)                     principal executive offices)



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                                  COPIES TO:

 Joel M. Handel, Esq.                        MORTON A. PIERCE, ESQ.
 Baer Marks & Upham, LLP                     DEWEY BALLANTINE
 805 Third Avenue                            1301 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
 New York, New York 10022                    NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019
 (212) 702-5700                              (212) 259-8000

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         APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: AS
SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES EFFECTIVE.

         IF THE ONLY SECURITIES BEING REGISTERED ON THIS FORM ARE BEING
OFFERED PURSUANT TO DIVIDEND OR INTEREST REINVESTMENT PLANS, PLEASE CHECK THE
FOLLOWING BOX:

         IF ANY OF THE SECURITIES BEING REGISTERED ON THIS FORM ARE TO BE
OFFERED ON A DELAYED OR CONTINUOUS BASIS PURSUANT TO RULE 415 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, OTHER THAN SECURITIES OFFERED ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH
DIVIDEND OR INTEREST REINVESTMENT PLANS, CHECK THE FOLLOWING BOX:

          IF THIS FORM IS FILED TO REGISTER ADDITIONAL SECURITIES FOR AN
OFFERING PURSUANT TO RULE 462(B) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, PLEASE CHECK THE
FOLLOWING BOX AND LIST THE SECURITIES ACT REGISTRATION NUMBER OF THE EARLIER
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SAME OFFERING: [X]  333-3301

         IF THIS FORM IS A POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE
462(C) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, CHECK THE FOLLOWING BOX AND LIST THE
SECURITIES ACT REGISTRATION STATEMENT NUMBER OF THE EARLIER EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SAME OFFERING:  [ ]

IF THE DELIVERY OF THE PROSPECTUS IS EXPECTED TO BE MADE PURSUANT TO RULE 434,
PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING BOX:






    








                                                   CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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  Title of Securities To Be   Amount to be Registered      Proposed Maximum               Proposed               Amount of
         Registered                                       Offering Price Per               Maximum             Registration
                                                              Unit (2)                   Aggregate                 Fee
                                                                                            Offering Price (2)
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Depositary Shares each        3,220,000 shares (1)            $5.00 (2)                   $16,100,000               $5552
representing one twenty-fifth
of a share of Series C
Mandatorily Convertible
Redeemable Preferred Stock
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Series C Mandatorily          None                            N/A                         N/A                       N/A
Convertible Redeemable
Preferred Stock
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Common Stock, par value $.01   3,577,420 shares (3)           N/A                         N/A                       N/A
per share
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(1)      INCLUDES 420,000 DEPOSITORY SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF AN OPTION
         GRANTED TO THE UNDERWRITERS TO COVER OVER-ALLOTMENTS, IF ANY.

(2)      ESTIMATED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPUTING THE AMOUNT OF THE
         REGISTRATION FEE AND BASED ON THE AVERAGE OF THE HIGH AND LOW SALES
         PRICES OF THE COMMON STOCK AS REPORTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
         ON JUNE 24, 1996 PURSUANT TO RULE 457(C).

(3)      REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON THE
         MANDATORY CONVERSION OF THE SERIES C MANDATORILY CONVERTIBLE
         REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK.











    





EXPLANATORY NOTE

         This registration statement relates to the public offering of
Depository Shares contemplated by a Registration Statement on Form S-3,
Securities and Exchange Commission File No. 333-3301 (the "Prior Registration
Statement") and is filed solely to increase the number of shares to be offered
in such offering by 2,800,000 plus up to 420,000 shares that may be sold
pursuant to the Underwriters over-allotment option. The contents of the Prior
Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference.









    







                                  SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Mount Laurel, State of New Jersey on
the 24th day of June 1996.

                                      TYCO TOYS, INC.


                                     By:

                                       ............*......................
                                            Gary S. Baughman
                                       President and Chief Executive Officer

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below hereby severally constitutes and appoints R. Michael Kennedy,
Jr., his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution for him and in his name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement, and to file the
same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that each said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or
their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.



                     SIGNATURE                             TITLE                              DATE




 ..........................*.........................     Chairman of the Board              June 24, 1996
                   Richard E. Grey



 ..........................*.........................    President, Chief Executive
                  Gary S. Baughman                      Officeer and Director
                                                        (Principal Executive Officer)


 ..........................*.........................   Vice Chairman and Chief Financial  June 24, 1996
                   Harry J. Pearce                     Officer (Principal Financial
                                                       and Accounting Officer)


 ..........................*.........................   Director                           June 24, 1996
                   John A. Canning


 ..........................*.........................    Director                          June 24, 1996
                  Jerome I. Gellman






    





                                                       Director                          June 24, 1996

 ..........................*.........................
                   Joel M. Handel
                                                       Director                          June 24, 1996

 ..........................*.........................
                  Timothy J. Danis

 ..........................*.........................   Director                          June 24, 1996
                   Jonathan Kagan

 ..........................*.........................   Director                          June 24, 1996
                   David B. Golub

                                                       Director                          June 24, 1996
 ..........................*.........................
                    Arnold Thaler





* By:  /s/ R. Michael Kennedy, Jr.
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         R. Michael Kennedy, Jr.
         Attorney-in-Fact






    





EXHIBIT INDEX

5.1                                  -Opinion of Baer Marks & Upham LLP
23.1                                 -Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2                                 -Consent of Baer Marks & Upham LLP
(included in Exhibit 5.1)