No, fingerboard is not a toy, it's lifestyle, fingerboarding is not easy, it doesn't mean that it's small, it's a toy, fingerboarding is also a great passion which makes fingerboarders all around the world love and adore fingerboards, even if it's a little "pricey" which costs 50-150 Dollars depending on the parts you use, fingerboards were first invented as keychains, and after a while, tech deck (a fingerboard company) started manufacturing fingerboards which are plastics, back then, tech deck was the only dominating company on fingerboarding scene, after a few years, Berlinwood came up, they produced a large quantity of Wooden fingerboards, in fact that wooden fingerboards are a bit realistic than the plastic ones.
One of the famous guy in the fingerboarding scene is Mike Schneider, he's the owner of flatface, which makes an event which is called "Rendezvous" Mike is currently making awesome decks for his company Flatface, even if he has events on his store, tech deck still manages to make events across the globe.
