This invention shows it is possible to use broadcast media to significantly enhance interactive learning or to entertain users while they play with toys or other games or play components. Signal sequences broadcast via the Internet, cable, satellite, or other media can invoke functions in toys while they are being used. These media broadcasts include shows, quizzes, educational or training movies, entertaining or scientific footages, and even broadcasts from radio stations.As interactivity requires feedback, this will be provided by the user playing with the toys or other game devices either by forcing a reaction in the toys themselves or via communication lines into a network. This innovative manner of educating users while they play is provided by the invention's Interactive Play System (IPS). This system consists of hardware and software components and is able to mix “signal-2-function sequences” into any kind of broadcasting media content, whether it is live, streaming, or recorded.