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American Girl


, which cost $115 without accessories as of December 2014. Buyers can easily spend more than $600 for a doll, outfits, accessories and lunch in the company's store in New York. Some aspects of the doll's characters and history have also provoked controversy. Some observers questioned why Addy, American Girl's first African-American historical character, was portrayed first as a slave (in later stories Addy and her family gain their freedom after the Civil War), while Cecile Rey, American Girl's second black
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Black doll


companies such as Madame Alexander and Tonner Doll, artist dolls, one-of-a-kind dolls, portrait dolls and those representing historical figures, reborn dolls, and paper dolls. In addition, American Girl has also released black dolls portraying girls of color from various points in American history such as Addy Walker and civil rights-era Melody Ellison, as well as those from the present day. To honor the history of black dolls, in 2012, three sisters named Debra Britt and her sisters, Felicia Walker and
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Connie Porter


"All-Bright Court" was her debut novel. The Addy Series are based on the American Girl doll of the same name, one of the original "Historical Characters". Pleasant Company, the owner of American Girl, approached Porter to write the series. The books follow Addy Walker, a young slave who runs away with her mother to freedom in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. There, she grows up and faces challenges in the urban North, such as learning to read and discrimination. preparation for writing
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List of American Girl characters


have maintained their original illustrations (with the exception of the covers). Kirsten was officially archived on the American Girl website on January 1, 2010. Addy Walker was the fifth doll added to the Historical line. Her character is a fugitive slave who escapes with her mother from a plantation in North Carolina to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War. Addy's stories explore themes of freedom, familial love, prejudice and racism. The six-book series was written by Connie Porter and originally illustrated by Melodye Rosales
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Zapf Creation


includes extra articles, outfits and pieces of furniture. The main function performed by the newer dolls (Version 3 or newer) is to let it drink water and when it cries, the water can come out of its eyes, making it look like the doll has Tears, and also to use the toilet. This doll could perhaps be classed as a "modern autonomous doll". Much like with Baby Born, the doll comes in Girl, Brother and Ethnic girl versions. This range of dolls are smaller versions of
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The Killian Curse


Haley found out about her curse and smashing it. The demon accidentally reveals that the Traitor is a girl named Jen. Her curse started when 21 was found on an encyclopedia in the library. Charlotte - Her curse is when her china dolls come to life. First she takes a china doll off a girl and takes it home. The doll starts her curse. She tries to defeat them by smashing them but they shrink her. She wakes up as a doll herself, and another doll pulls her into the house and
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A Girl like Me (film)


Davis and her peers about how black features did not conform to society's standards of beauty. The next section was a repeat of an experiment conducted by Kenneth Clark in the 1940s where African-American children were asked to choose between black or white dolls. In the original experiment(s) the majority of the children choose the white dolls. When Davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also choose the white dolls over the black, giving similar reasons as the original subjects, associating white with being pretty or good and black
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Bratz Babyz


also came out at first with molded hair. Secret Surprise dolls Lil' Angelz came out with Secret Surprise dolls (dolls with hoodies). They could either be a boy or girl. Heavenly Hair Bratz Lil' Angelz came out with Heavenly Hair Dolls, which have the regular hair. Tiny Tinklez Bratz lil' angelz which urinate when given water. They come with two pets, which can also drink and urinate. On Christmas Day 2006, Miami resident Kristina Acre received the Jade Singing Bratz doll as a gift. According
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The Pink Doll (film)


The Pink Doll () is an animated film of Russian director Valentin Olshvang, produced in 1997. One girl had a tedious time all day long with her baby-sitter. When in the evening mother had come, the girl was glad to see her, but mother gave her a present and went to the meeting with an admirer. The girl stayed at home alone. In that present girl found a pink doll, that was the largest one in her collection. Girl began associating this doll as herself, and herself
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American Girl


American Girl announced in late 2018 that the January/February 2019 issue would be the magazine's last. American Girl launched Innerstar University, an online virtual world featuring the My American Girl contemporary doll line, on July 13, 2010. Access to the online world is via a Campus Guide, bundled with purchase of a My American Girl doll, which contains an access code for the creation of a doll avatar that then navigates the various games, shops, and challenges of the virtual campus of Innerstar U. In 2015, when
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List of American Girl characters


limited edition dolls sold only for a year before being discontinued. Tenney's sidekick and bandmate, Logan Everett is, in a break from series tradition, the first 18-inch boy doll from American Girl. Released alongside the main character, he is depicted as a drummer for Tenney's band, and as with Tenney, the Logan doll also comes with a modified hand to hold musical instruments. Suzanne "Z" Yang is an aspiring film maker and photographer, specializing in stop-motion pictures. Z is the first Korean American
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Kenneth and Mamie Clark


courts and therefore able to influence decisions. In 2005 filmmaker Kiri Davis recreated the doll study and documented it in a film entitled "A Girl Like Me". Despite the many changes in some parts of society, Davis found the same results as did the Drs. Clark in their study of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the original experiment(s), the majority of the children chose the white dolls. When Davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll. In
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American Girl


her concern and criticism of the line in a Twitter post, stating it "was once radically positive for girls before it was homogenized for money". American Girl attracted considerable criticism in February 2017 when they announced that they will be changing the dolls' bodies to incorporate permanently stitched panties on contemporary dolls and certain BeForever character dolls, namely Maryellen, Melody and Julie. Public reaction to the permanent underwear—the first major change since the transition to flesh-colored bodies in 1991 following the release of the Felicity doll—was
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Dawn doll


Dawn's best friends. Gary, Ron, and Van are the handsome boyfriends who come see the girls in their fashion shows. The basic Dawn dolls were made of vinyl with hard torsos, softer arms, and bendable legs. The dolls' feet feature holes in the bottoms, which could be inserted onto pegs on their plastic doll stands, and other various accessories. However, Topper did not use exactly the same body mold for each doll, because a number of variations can be observed from doll to doll. Some
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List of American Girl characters


and Bradford Brown, but were later redrawn by Dahl Taylor. A stage adaptation of Porter's Addy book series was commissioned and produced by the Seattle Children's Theater in 2007. "Addy: An American Girl Story" was subsequently taken on a limited national tour from January through May 2008 through Kids Entertainment, Inc. Addy was the first African American character made by American Girl, the second being Cecile and the third being Melody. Samantha is an only child growing up during the Edwardian period (although American Girl designated her as
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Tales from the Hood


window into the street. Later, after noticing a blank spot on the painting, Metger comes in contact with the doll he threw out on the street and has a fight with it. When Metger throws a vase at the doll, it disappears and attacks Metger out of nowhere, trying to eat him. Metger is injured, but he manages to stop the doll by beating it with an American Flag. He also damages the painting, which starts to bleed. Metger takes the doll outside to his porch and ties it
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Sasha Morgenthaler


latter part of the decade. Around 1980, the "skin" tone of most of the "Caucasian" dolls was lightened. Dolls come in girl, boy, baby, and (beginning in the last production cycle) toddler versions. Girl and boy dolls are 16 inches or so tall, while babies and toddlers are 11–12 inches. Babies have curved arms and legs and do not stand. When first introduced, baby dolls were sexed with stylised genitals, but the practice was discontinued. Dolls have rooted hair in brown
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Brit Bennett


one million views in three days. While at Michigan, she also won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She has since published other nonfiction essays, including a history of black dolls called "Addy Walker, American Girl" for the "Paris Review", as well as a review of the Ta-Nehisi Coates book "Between the World and Me" for "The" "New Yorker". "Vogue" said Bennett's nonfiction essays "
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American Girl


American Girl is an American line of dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to twelve-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls. Originally the stories focused on various periods of American history, but were expanded in 1995 to include characters and stories from contemporary life. Aside from the original American Girl dolls, the buyer also has the option to purchase dolls that look like themselves. The options for the line of Truly
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La Boutique fantasque


Russian family, and everyone welcomes them. Five Cossack dolls enter and perform a traditional dance, followed by an animal act featuring two dancing poodles. Then the shop-keeper introduces his most sophisticated dancing dolls, a pair of can-can dancers, a flashly-dressed man and girl, come in and perform their routine. Their dance is so enchanting that the American family decides to buy the male doll while the Russian family buys the female dancing doll. The deals are made and paid for, the dolls are placed
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The Young Slave


and some pumice-stone, and cursed him not be able to cross a river to return if he did not. He forgot them, but the river swelled, reminding him. Lisa took them to the kitchen and told her story to the doll, and then threatened to sharpen the knife on the stone and kill herself if the doll did not answer. The doll did. After several days of this, the baron heard this and eavesdropped. When the girl began to whet the knife, he broke into the kitchen
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The Toy Shoppe


. The leopard is attacked until sand pours from its wounds onto Oswald who is working under the injured toy. Oswald shoos away the rat by throwing a doll head at the rat. Later that night, Oswald turns out the lights, closes his shop, and heads to bed above the shop. Alone, two dolls resembling a Dutch boy and a Dutch girl come to life, turn on the lights and start to play music from a turnstile. Other toys start to parade and play. When the Dutch boy and a
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List of American Girl characters


two additional "best friend" dolls: Gwen Thompson and Sonali Matthews, neither of which had a separate collection. In the books, Gwen Thompson is disappointed in Chrissa when she believes Chrissa has revealed one of her secrets to school bullies. At first, Sonali is one of the bullies, but then learns to stand up for others. The character of Sonali debuted a new face mold to represent her Indian heritage. The Chrissa doll has light skin, blue eyes and dark brown/near black hair. She comes in
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941 film)


as nameless rags. Once outside Ragland, the rag dolls met The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees who offered to take them to the castle; but on their way to the Castle, the Boy Rag Doll fell under the spell of a beautiful Spanish doll, causing poor Girl Rag Doll's candy heart to break. When the Girl Rag Doll was taken to the castle's hospital, she learned that the doctors were unable to treat broken hearts, so Camel rushed out to find the Boy Rag Doll, who happened to be
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Dolls (1995 manga)


the Viz-released volumes as well. Plant Dolls are living dolls. They drink milk warmed to body temperature three times a day, and take sugar cookies or cake once a week as fertilizer. Each doll is unique, though the same "model" can be available. They are "so expensive the price will make your eyeballs pop out," and the accessories and care do not come cheap either. Plant Dolls look like young girls, but given improper treatment, they can mature. This is especially true if
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American Girl


released who has her own special talent; for example, Mia St. Clair, the Girl of the Year for 2008, did ice skating, and Marisol Luna, the Girl of the Year for 2005, was a dancer. Bitty Baby is a line of 15" baby dolls targeted to children aged three and older. They are cheaper than the 18" dolls, and currently retail at $60 each. The Bitty Twins line debuted in 2003 to represent slightly older toddlers and/or preschoolers. The Bitty Twins were the same size
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Dollhouse (Melanie Martinez song)


camera shows the family sitting on the couch, watching TV. Cry Baby describes that, to the outer world, while her mother may seem perfect, she is far from it, as when her husband is out cheating on her with another woman, she drinks away her sorrows. Cry Baby then notices that the girl is coming back upstairs, and warns the other dolls to go back into the places they were in before. They do, and as the girl approaches, Cry Baby stands up and tells the girl that
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List of Pretty Cure films


put on a puppet show at a nursery, they come across a living doll named Tsumugi, who claims that her homeland, the Doll Kingdom, is under Saiark attack. As the girls follow Tsumugi to the Doll Kingdom, where they fight against a Windmill Saiark, Blue, who had never heard of the Doll Kingdom before, is suddenly attacked by a darkness coming from his mirror. After defeating the Saiark, the girls are introduced to the Doll Kingdom's prince, Zeke, who Hime gets an instant crush on,
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May (film)


Heartbroken, she visits Polly, and finds her with another girl named Ambrosia. When even Lupe refuses to come near her, May becomes enraged and kills Lupe. She becomes delusional, and believes that Suzie is talking to her. May takes Suzie to school and tells the blind children that Suzie is her best friend. The children struggle to take the doll out of the glass case, and the case shatters. May and the children are cut by the broken glass. Scooping up the ruined doll, May returns home devastated
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American Girl


seventy-seven different dolls over the years. Each doll has a different combination of face mold, skin tone, eye color, and hair color, length, texture, and/or style. American Girl states that this variety allows customers to choose dolls that "represent the individuality and diversity of today's American girls." A wide variety of contemporary clothing, accessories, and furniture is also available, and there are regular releases and retirements to update this line. Each year, a "Girl of the Year" doll is
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American Girl


children and with a focus on the outdoors, positioning it between Bitty Baby and the BeForever/Girl of the Year/Truly Me dolls. As the name implies, dolls from the line wear Wellington boots, and have a body design distinct from the classic, Götz-derived American Girl dolls. The line was released on June 23, 2016. The names of the Wellie Wishers are: Willa, Camille, Kendall, Emerson, and Ashlyn. In February 2017, American Girl released a new line of 18" dolls
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American Girl (book series)


, also known as Mysteries Through Time and/or Mysteries through History was released by American Girl in 1999 and discontinued in 2004. The series comprises a total of 22 books by various authors and forms a companion series to the popular American Girl books; unlike Girl of the Year and other lines, they do not come with any doll or toy and acts as a stand-alone novel set in a particular period in American history. The characters were generally older, ranging from ages ten to fourteen, and the books were marketed as
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The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story


she was the Carrie who stole Anna Maria from Louisa when they were girls, but that she was unable to return the doll before Louisa died. Out of fear and guilt, she buried the doll in the garden. Now she believes that Louisa sent the ghost of her cat as a sign that she would never forgive her. The girls explain that Louisa only wants her doll back and convince Ms. Cooper to return it. They lead Ms. Cooper through the hedge, where she emerges as a little girl once more. She
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Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll


her feelings on Mariela's elimination saying that she felt she took away Mariela's dream and did not want her to go home. Anastacia feels her biggest indirect competition was gone. The girls are given a Wait a Minute routine to learn where Chelsea and Anastacia struggle. Robin then tells them that only 4 girl will perform it on stage with the Dolls to get immunity, however she makes the last minute decision to cut both Anastacia and Chelsea out of the performance and they stay on the bus. At the performance, Melissa
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941 film)


in "Glover's Land" with the beautiful Spanish doll. The beautiful Spanish doll asked the rag boy's name, but when he told her he did not have one, she rejected him saying, "without a name, you are just a nobody." The Camel arrived and gave the boy rag doll a ride to the Castle where he applied for a name. When the Boy Rag Doll finally found the Girl Rag Doll in her hospital room in a broken-hearted sleep, he had with him the "
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American Girl (book series)


The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings. The historical novels that have corresponding dolls are referred to as the Central Series. There is also the "Girl of the Year" line of characters from contemporary settings. A related series entitled History Mysteries
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American Girl


called contemporary characters. The first doll in the line was Tenney Grant, an aspiring country singer and songwriter. Other dolls of the contemporary line include Logan, Tenney's bandmate and American Girl's first ever boy doll, and Z Yang, who is interested in photography and making stop motion videos. In 2004, American Girl teamed with Julia Roberts's Red Om production company and to create the first American Girl direct-to-video movie, "". The film spawned a franchise that was followed by "" (
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Girls' toys and games


to the trend by tying it to their doll products. The American Girl line of dolls and books has dedicated stores across the United States, such as Mall of America and American Girl Place in Los Angeles, that include a doll hair salon, a photo studio and party hosting. The Nickelodeon television company's resort in Florida includes a girls' spa. The formula is proving to be successful globally. The world's largest Barbie doll store, a six-floor building in Shanghai, includes a "full-service day
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Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls


. Often the "thoughts" of the dolls are portrayed. They represent moral authority and are the voice of Else Ury (for example, "Annemarie knew that doll Gerda did not agree with…"). When Gerda's doll wig comes off, Annemarie cuts off one of her own braids, which she believes will grow on her bald doll's head. To escape the chaos of house cleaning, Annemarie must usually go for a walk with her nanny. Annemarie hopes for rain. She has heard that when it
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List of American Girl characters


American Girl is an American line of dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to eleven-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls. Originally the stories focused on various periods of American history, but were expanded in 1995 to include contemporary characters and stories, the latest addition being WellieWishers, a line of dolls aimed for younger children. Provided below is a list of characters from the Historical series (BeForever), Contemporary
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Barney's Great Adventure


are dropped off to their grandparents farm. As Cody believes there's nothing exciting at the farm, Abby and Marcella rub a Barney doll in his face. Cody starts a game of "keep-away" by taking the Barney doll and running off with it. The two go after Cody, who hides the doll in the bathroom. The girls catch up with Cody, who tells them to use their imagination and laughs when he thinks that nothing happened. However, the doll comes to life as Barney the Dinosaur takes
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Doll


tribe. Kachina dolls are objects meant to be treasured and studied in order to learn the characteristics of each Kachina. Inuit dolls are made out of soapstone and bone, materials common to the Inuit people. Many are clothed with animal fur or skin. Their clothing articulates the traditional style of dress necessary to survive cold winters, wind, and snow. The tea dolls of the Innu people were filled with tea for young girls to carry on long journeys. Apple dolls are traditional North American dolls with a head made from dried
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Bad Girl (Rihanna song)


all. It's all freestyle. Chris comes up with an idea; I come up with one. Rihanna will weigh in. And we build." The song leaked on January 6, 2009. Their version of the song was excluded from the soundtrack, in favor of a version performed by the American girl group The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of "Bad Girl" revolve around the protagonist's addiction to shopping, particularly for shoes and handbags. Rihanna sings the lyric "Need no bargain, need no sale/ I
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American Girl


addition, the company has switched back to the old "iconic boutique box" packaging following complaints by collectors who deemed the new boxes to be inferior and more susceptible to damage. YouTube videos made with American Girl Dolls are becoming increasingly popular. In 2015, the American Girl fan community, more specifically the practice of creating and uploading American Girl doll-based stop motion videos, (AGSM for short) was featured in a news report for BBC News' Trending site, along with interviews and videos from several prominent doll community
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Toy


In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, children played with dolls made of wax or terracotta, sticks, bows and arrows, and yo-yos. When Greek children, especially girls, came of age it was customary for them to sacrifice the toys of their childhood to the gods. On the eve of their wedding, young girls around fourteen would offer their dolls in a temple as a rite of passage into adulthood. The oldest known mechanical puzzle also comes from Greece and appeared in the 3rd century BCE. The game consisted
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Saint Veronika (song)


dolls' wheels are spinning thread. The girl leaves the house, jumps over a fence and unwittingly gets one of her threads stuck on a nail. Suddenly the other dolls try to chase her, possibly trying to convince her to come back. When they get to the fence they notice that her thread is stuck on the fence, and give up. The girl keeps running, not noticing the thread caught on the fence is slowly unraveling her and leading to her demise, and at the end of the video she collapses
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Frozen Charlotte (doll)


Frozen Charlotte is a name used to describe a specific form of china doll made from c. 1850 to c. 1920. The dolls had substantial popularity during the Victorian era. The name of the doll originates from the American folk ballad Fair Charlotte, based on the poem "A Corpse Going to a Ball" by Seba Smith, which tells of a young girl called Charlotte who refused to wrap up warmly to go on a sleigh ride because she did not want to cover up her pretty dress; she froze to death during the
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Dawn doll


Dawn dolls are small fashion dolls that were made by Topper between 1970 and 1973. They measure 6.5 inches in height and have painted eyes and lips. The girl dolls feature rooted hair and eyelashes. The boy dolls have molded hair. The dolls were quite popular and they topped sales of Barbie for a while, but were discontinued when Topper went out of business in 1973. The dolls were reissued in 2000 by Checkerboard as a 30-year commemoration of the first Dawn dolls made by Topper, and then again in 2004 by Toy
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A Doll's House (1917 film)


A Doll's House is a 1917 American silent drama film based upon the play by Henrik Ibsen. It was directed by Joe De Grasse and stars Lon Chaney. Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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Prima Donna (American band)


, the Polecats, the Electric Prunes, Nikki Corvette, Mystic Knights Of The Cobra, Rikk Agnew, the Gears, Razor Dolls, Girl in a Coma, the Stitches, and the Bellrays. 2005 album on Brunette Records. (Out of print) Released through internet stores such as iTunes and CDbaby.com. Contains the songs "Eat Your Heart Out, Double Crosser, Stray Doll, Miss Avenue, Dummy Love, Crucify, Demoted, Teenage Mannequin, Everything's Wrong, Doll Face Baby," and "Feel My
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Veerana


to fetch some water for the radiator. However, Baba suddenly creeps out from behind a bush, hypnotises the girl, and by cutting a piece of her frock and few strands of her hair makes a doll from it. He then places the glass bottle holding this doll in the witch's sarcophagus. Jasmin gets out of the car in the hypnotised state of mind and walks over to the shrine. Meanwhile, the uncle comes back with the water tin and is shocked not to find the child in the car. He
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Women's Appreciation


" Lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret agreed to close their store to the public for filming. In the episode, Angela reveals that she wears large sizes of clothes purchased from American Girl, a doll store chain, but will not shop at children's retailer Gap Kids because it is "too flashy." In the DVD audio commentary, Kinsey remarked that after the episode broadcast, people would bring up American Girl Doll catalogs for her to sign. Passerby also yelled out Carell's name during the scene where Pam changes a tire
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Dallas Doll


. The film was developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission and made with money from the FFC. Sandra Bernhard was imported to play the lead. Ann Turner: "Dallas Doll" essentially came from being part of and seeing how Australians really worship experts from overseas. I've done some writing workshops where that would happen. An American is brought out - and the willingness for Australians to accept with open arms whatever fraud comes out because they're American, that's absolutely the starting point of "Dallas Doll"
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Doll i' the Grass


to let the youngest go with them, because he was useless. A little girl asked him to come see Doll i' the Grass, and he went. Doll i' the Grass asked him his troubles, and he told her but said she was so lovely, though small, he would be happy if she consented to be his wife. She made him a shirt in a day, but it was tiny. They set out, he on his horse, she in a silver spoon drawn by two white mice
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Pleasant Rowland


founded the Pleasant Company, which manufactured the "American Girl" dolls, books and accessories. Rowland was inspired to create the American Girl brand because of her longstanding interest in history. A visit to Colonial Williamsburg led her to think that young girls might become interested in history through identifying with dolls based on historic periods. Each doll is designed with a story that places it in a specific historical time period. Books, clothing and other accessories are marketed separately for each doll. The company's growth was rapid as it added
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Happiness C.O.D.


" shows up with a moustache and a new girl friend, department store heiress Beatrice Manning, and announces that he has quit his job. When younger brother Larry and his sister Carroll arrive, the three siblings make plans to dine out, thoughtlessly leaving Tom and Aunt Addie behind. Once alone, Tom reveals to Addie that he is nearly bankrupt, in part because his extravagant offspring have always charged their various purchases to his account. Addie disapproves of this practice and also of Carroll's boyfriend, Jim Martin, who has
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American Girl (film series)


American Girl is a line of books, movies, dolls, and accessories based on pre-teen girl characters from various periods of history including the 21st century. Several of the characters from the American Girl books have since had their stories adapted into films, the majority of them released as direct-to-DVD or television films, with the exception of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl", which saw a theatrical release. Starting with the debut of the Maryellen Larkin doll, American Girl has since expressed interest in
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Alexander Doll Company


is still being made today and is considered to be a valuable collectible. A December 2005 article in "Forbes" magazine analyzed the most popular American toys by decade, with help from the Toy Industry Association. The Madame Alexander collectible dolls led the list for the 1920–1929 decade, beating out even the yo-yo. Alexandra Fairchild Ford is a line of 16" collectible fashion dolls for adult collectors. , Madame Alexander has begun creating dolls for Dollie & Me, which specializes in matching clothing for girls and dolls. In
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Coming of age


the elaborate female puberty rituals of ancient Greece, and for girls the wedding ceremony was in part a rite of passage for the bride. Girls coming of age dedicated their dolls to Artemis, the goddess most concerned with girlhood, or to Aphrodite when they were preparing for marriage. All adolescents in ritual preparation to transition to adult status wore the "tunica recta", the "upright tunic," but girls wove their own. The garment was called "recta" because it was woven by tradition on a type of upright
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A Christmas Dream


A Christmas Dream () is a 1945 Czechoslovak short film directed by the brothers Karel Zeman and . Under the family Christmas tree, a young girl finds she has been given a collection of new toys. Happily taking them in her arms, she tosses aside her old rag doll. That night, the girl dreams that the rag doll, abandoned on the floor, comes silently to life to entertain her. The rag doll dances across a piano and skates across a table. The new toys, also coming to life,
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When I Grow Up (The Pussycat Dolls song)


The group then performed the song at the Walmart Soundcheck, along with "I Hate This Part", "Takin' Over the World", "Buttons" and "Don't Cha". On November 21, they performed a medley of "I Hate This Part" and "When I Grow Up" at the 2008 American Music Awards. The performance included stripper poles, and the girls donned all-rubber outfits. The Pussycat Dolls also performed "When I Grow Up" at the Doll Domination Tour (2009
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Topsy-Turvy doll


A Topsy-Turvy doll is a double-ended doll, typically featuring two opposing characters. They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black "mammy" figure. Precise facts about their origins are rare, but as late as the 1950s, "Topsy and Eva" dolls were marketed by Sears, Montgomery Ward, and The Babyland Rag company (aka Bruckner). As objects of material culture
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Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious


while she and Charlye both get a Hello Kitty diamond necklace. Cliques begin to form, with Jenna, Natalie and Chrystina (known as JNC) on one side and Nichole, Charlye and Tiffanie (also known as TNC) on the other and they come to blow when Charlye criticizes the girls for being too sexual. Tiffanie and Charlye lash out at Jenna and Chrystina while an amused Jamie watches. Jenna then sleeps through rehearsal and ponders quitting due to her feud with the other clique but is talked out of it by Robin
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Coppélia


. With a magic spell, he will take Franz's spirit and transfer it to Coppélia. After Dr. Coppelius proffers him some wine laced with sleeping powder, Franz begins to fall asleep. The inventor then readies his magic spell. However, Dr. Coppelius did not expel all the girls: Swanhilda is still there, hidden behind a curtain. She dresses up in Coppélia's clothes and pretends that the doll has come to life. She wakes Franz and then winds up all the mechanical dolls to aid their escape. Dr. Coppelius
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When I Grow Up (The Pussycat Dolls song)


"When I Grow Up" is a song by American girl group The Pussycat Dolls from their second and final studio album "Doll Domination" (2008). It was released by Interscope Records on May 27, 2008, as the lead single from the album. "When I Grow Up" was their first single following the departure of the group's longest-standing member Carmit Bachar. The song was originally written with Britney Spears in mind, but her label rejected it. It was first recorded for Nicole Scherzinger's
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Sophia Grace & Rosie


Books. In April 2014, Just Play launched a two-doll pack containing two dolls of both Sophia Grace and Rosie. They were sold exclusively at Walmart stores for the first month, until made available at Claire's in May. Just Play teamed up with the girls to produce their own toy inspired by their love of dress-up, music, dolls and more. The dolls feature the two girls dressed in their trademark hot pink tutus and tiaras. Each doll is fully posable and comes with a matching microphone, ruffled
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Herself the Elf


Herself the Elf was a franchise line for young girls similar to Strawberry Shortcake. It was created by American Greetings (through its "Those Characters From Cleveland" research-and-development unit). It included a series of dolls from Mattel, an animated special, books, records. Each of the "Herself the Elf" characters had an exploratory poem:br Herself the Elf (main character of the franchise)br "...is the elf in charge. When it comes to work, there's no job too large.
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Toy Story


did not allow the use of the toy as "They [Mattel] philosophically felt girls who play with Barbie dolls are projecting their personalities onto the doll. If you give the doll a voice and animate it, you're creating a persona for it that might not be every little girl's dream and desire." Hasbro likewise refused to license (mainly because Sid was going to blow one up, prompting the filmmakers to instead use a fictional toy, Combat Carl), but they did license Mr. Potato Head. The
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A Girl for All Time


: Elinor, Your Elizabethan Girl whose story is set in London at the end of Elizabeth I’s reign. Then there is Lydia, Your Georgian Girl, whose story is set in Boston, Massachusetts prior to the American Revolutionary War. Amelia, Your Victorian Girl’s story is set in 1880s London. Clementine, Your 1940s Girl is set during the Blitz in London, and we meet Sam Your 1960s Girl in Paris in the mid 1960s. Each doll comes in a historically inspired costume, referencing the period each character lives
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Julie Olson Williams


Julie's husband, Scott, is killed in a construction accident while working for Anderson Manufacturing. Phyllis and Bob Anderson feel guilty and offer Julie a house and financial support, and Bob soon divorces Phyllis and marries Julie. Julie deals with another blow when Addie is diagnosed with cancer and discovers she is pregnant with Doug's child, Julie's, half-sister. Addie gives birth to daughter Hope and falls into a coma. Addie comes out of her coma and makes Julie promise to care for the baby and Doug.
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Doll


been observed and studied. Action figures that represent traditional masculine traits are popular with boys, who are more likely to choose toys that have some link to tools, transportation, garages, machines and military equipment. Dolls for girls tend to represent feminine traits and come with such accessories as clothing, kitchen appliances, utensils, furniture and jewelry. Pediophobia is a fear of dolls or similar objects. Psychologist Ernst Jentsch theorized that uncanny feelings arise when there is an intellectual uncertainty about whether an object is alive or not. Sigmund Freud
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Journey Girls


Japanese and Mexican descent, she loves to dance, and is the fashion guru of the group. Their clothes differentiate from doll to doll and come with a wide range of accessories. The Journey Girls dolls are released about once a year with a new outfit. Each year they are realized with a different local in mind. 2013 was the Paris line; 2014 was the London line; 2015 saw the girls visiting Italy; in 2016 they went to New York; and the line released in 2017 takes them to Australia.
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Toy


-stereotyped toy choices". When eye movement is tracked in young infants, infant girls show a visual preference for a doll over a toy truck (d  1.0). Boys showed no preference for the truck over the doll. However, they did fixate on the truck more than the girls (d = .78). This small study suggests that even before any self-awareness of gender identity has emerged, children already prefer sex-typical toys. These differences in toy choice are well established within the child by the
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Rag Doll (comics)


Simon Culp. Years later, Culp did come looking for Rag Doll's help. Trapped in the form of the Shade, Culp explained that he had a very profitable plan to launch against Opal City and the Shade. Rag Doll agreed to help. Rag Doll helped Culp's gang subdue Mikaal Tomas when the alien attempted to make contact with Ted Knight. Rag Doll watched as Culp cast a spell on the Black Pirate, causing Opal City to become encased in a shadow-dome. Rag Doll and his gang then helped
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Delightful Dolly


Delightful Dolly is a 1910 American silent short comedy produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film follows Marie Allen, an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather, who sees a large doll in the window of the shop. At night, she sneaks out to visit the shop with the doll, but finds it gone. She sneaks into the shop and ends up hiding in the box, to prevent from being discovered by the store clerk. She is taken to the home of the rich little girl, Daisy. After taking
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List of American Girl characters


character made by American Girl. Starting in 2001, American Girl began producing a "Girl of the Year" doll that was exclusive to that year. Lindsey was on sale from 2001 to mid-2002 but a 2002 doll was not produced due to lack of sales. Then Kailey was on sale from 2003-mid-2004. After that they were exclusively produced and on sale only during the year of their origination. The Girl of the Year is available until December 31, or until supplies last. Lindsey Bergman and Kailey Hopkins were Girl of the
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Fluffy (comics)


girl that had been playing with fluffy the other day. Fluffy did not like the girl. Michael had a dream that the girl was eating fluffy so when he woke up and saw that fluffy wasn't next to him he got scared. Michael went to find the girl. When he entered her room she was eating a burrito with bunny ears coming out. When Michael saw that he snatched the burrito out of her hands. Then a man approached him and ask if he was looking for a bunny. When he turned
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Sennentuntschi


girl however escapes. Reusch keeps investigating and finds out that the woman from the photograph the girl's mother, who was impregnated by the priest who killed her and kept their daughter in captivity since birth. It is revealed that the young priest did not commit suicide but was killed in a fight during girl's escape. Reusch arrests and imprisons the priest and goes into the mountains, searching for the girl. Reusch finds the girl alive and well in the lodge, however days after the deadly events. The girl made dolls
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Jean and the Calico Doll


son sitting at the window, and his young daughter playing on the floor with her collie, Jean. The cash is left on the table while Doyle sees his visitor out. The son leaves the room, and the young girl sees the money and thinks of it only as paper she can play with. She takes the bundle out into the garden, puts it into a cradle with her calico doll, and cuts paper dolls from one or two of the bills. The room is empty when Doyle returns, and he
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Connie Porter


novel. Released in 1998 after the first six Addy books, the novel is the coming of age tale of Tasha, a black 15-year-old girl growing up in Buffalo, New York, an honors student who wants to go to college to escape her inner city life. However, her plans takes an unexpected turn when she becomes pregnant after a rape. When the baby girl is born, Tasha names her daughter Imani. As she tries to raise Imani, she struggles to be a good mother in a dangerous environment
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Dead Girls


, overlooking Laos. He was also making frequent trips to Bangkok. Nongkhai, Bangkok and London are the story's most important locales. "Dead Girls" is a science fiction novel set in the year 2071 telling the tale of a virus that turns pubescent girls into vampiric gynoid dolls called Lilim, and the doomed love affair between 15-year-old Ignatz Zwakh and a Lilim assassin called Primavera. The idea for the quantum clockwork Cartier dolls comes from the story of Coppellia, a mechanical doll in one of the "Tales from
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Doll Girl


whom little has been revealed briefly appeared in "Titans Secret Files" #2. This Doll Girl also had a cameo in "Wonder Woman" (vol. 2) #174. As Doll Girl, Martha Roberts could shrink through mental concentration to a height of 5 and 1/2 inches. She retained her normal strength and was a fair hand-to-hand combatant. She could pilot the small "flying saucer" that the duo used and was able to use other small vehicles as needed. In "Kingdom Come
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Groovy Girls


Groovy Girls are a line of fashion dolls manufactured by the American toy company Manhattan Toy and launched in 1998. The brand consists of plush, 13-inch dolls, fashion and furniture accessories, as well as pets. Groovy Girls generally cost $10 to $20 per doll and target the 6-to-12 age range, with licensed products including room décor, apparel, interactive and electronics, stationery, health and beauty aids. Groovy Girls launched as a "funky" alternative to Barbie. Each doll has different skin tones, hair types and
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Journey Girls


, who had previously been released as the London holiday special edition doll in 2014. Likewise, the New York holiday doll, Ilee, has become a member of the main group with the Australia line, after her original introduction in 2016. The Italy holiday doll, Giovanna, after her initial release in 2015, was not rereleased. The top portion of their bodies are made of vinyl and the lower half is made of cloth. They have rooted hair and inset eyes. Journey Girls dolls come in a wide variety of
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Bad Hair


spend a lot of time together in her family's apartment watching the Venezuelan beauty pageants on TV. La Niña is the classic "girly girl," dressing like a princess and playing with makeup and dolls often. Junior also enjoys the beauty pageants, and when the time comes for the two to take their school pictures, La Niña chooses to dress as a princess while Junior wants to dress as a singer with straight hair. It is in this scene that the double standard for males and females in Latin American society is
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Cabbage Patch Kids


North America, produced dolls that were slightly different from one another. Dolls that were made for consumers in other countries than the United States hold a higher value in the eye of some American collectors. Hasbro took over the rights to produce Cabbage Patch dolls in 1988 after Coleco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and continued to make the dolls with various gimmicks, including dolls that played kazoos. Some of the more popular doll lines to come out under the Cabbage Patch Kids name included the "Birthday Kids", "Splash '
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Pleasant Rowland


dolls, books, clothing for dolls and girls, and numerous other accessories, such as dollhouses and children's furniture. In marketing synergy, her company created stores in major cities, events, and films planned around the dolls and their accessories. For instance, parents may pay to reserve space at stores for American Girl parties for their daughters and friends. Stores have public restaurants where mothers and daughters can have tea or other meals. In 1998 Rowland sold the Pleasant Company (now American Girl) to Mattel for $700
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American Girl


as the Bitty Baby dolls. They were discontinued in June 2016. "Hopscotch Hill School" was released by American Girl in 2003. The dolls were tall, came with jointed limbs and painted eyes, and had a slimmer overall body shape. They, along with the stories which came with the dolls written by Valerie Tripp, were aimed at elementary-age girls from four to six years old, and were sold until 2006. A reboot of the Historical Characters line dubbed as "BeForever" was launched in August 2014
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Journey Girls


Journey Girls is an American line of 18" fashion dolls sold by Toys "R" Us. There are six main Journey Girls; Chavonne, Kelsey, Meredith, Callie, Kyla, and Dana, each with unique personalities. A seventh Journey Girl, Jordanna, was released as a special edition doll in late 2013 as part of the Paris collection. They are targeted at girls ages 6–12 and are sold at Toys R Us. Toys R Us added another new Journey Girl doll, named Mikaella, for the Italy line
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The Circle (DC Comics)


event" will be their salvation. Alkyone crushes the small baby doll and leads the other three to the city. At the same time, Hippolyta makes a baby girl out of clay. When it comes to life, she shows the baby to the rest of the Amazons, claiming she is "their" daughter, and names her Diana. Elsewhere, the four women watch from a distance, waiting. Nightfall; the Circle head to where Hippolyta sleeps with her baby. Wounding Philippus the Captain of the Guard, they
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Real Chance of Love (season 2)


Chance's parents Claudia and Robert are coming to visit. All the girls get to meet the parents during the barbecue. Real announced that he and his girls will have a date that night with the parents while Chance and his girls will have a date tomorrow with the parents. Real took Doll, Pocahontas, and Sassy to the baseball park for their date that night for three of the girls to meet their parents. Each girl have one-on-one time with the parents. When asked if Sassy would be a
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London Coliseum


long run of major American hits beginning with "Kiss Me, Kate" in 1951, "Guys And Dolls" in 1953, "Pajama Game" in 1955, and "Damn Yankees" in 1957. But this exceptional period did at last come to an end in 1957 when the production of "The Bells Are Ringing" failed to enthrall anyone. The Coliseum reverted to the original name when the Sadler's Wells Opera Company moved there in 1968 and, in 1974, the Company changed its name to become the English
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Dash Dolls


before the television series occurred. "We did not put out any signs like ‘Yo we want a show.’ It didn't happen like that. Khloé and Kourtney asked us if we could help them out. [...] They needed somebody that they could trust," Malika Haqq discussed doing business with the Kardashians. Haqq also noted that working in the store has always resembled a television show because of its unique environment and famous owners. "Ultimately when you put a large group of girls together, you're
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Culture of Ecuador


than boys, due to traditional social structures. At age 15, girls often have traditional parties called "fiesta de quince años". "Quinceañera" is the term used for the girl, not the party. The party involves festive food and dance. This coming of age or "debutante" party is a tradition found in most Latin American countries, comparable to the American tradition of sweet sixteen parties. This special event also involves a doll being given away to show adulthood. The majority of the movies shown in movie
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Götz (company)


Götz Puppenmanufaktur International GmbH is a German doll manufacturer, founded in Rödental, Germany, in 1950. The company was founded in 1950 by Marianne and Franz Götz. Götz's first dolls were handmade of papier-mâché by family members and sold directly by Franz Götz until 1957, when they switched to producing dolls using rotational molding. The company is also known among collectors for designing and manufacturing the first American Girl dolls–Kirsten Larson, Samantha Parkington and Molly McIntire–for Pleasant Company during the 1980s to 1990s, the face
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The Tale Of Two Bad Mice


grooming their daughter to be a permanent resident and housekeeper in their London home. The tale is about two mice who vandalize a doll's house. After finding the food on the dining room table made of plaster, they smash the dishes, throw the doll clothing out the window, tear the bolster, and carry off a number of articles to their mouse-hole. When the little girl who owns the doll's house discovers the destruction, she positions a policeman doll outside the front door to ward off any future depredation
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List of American Girl characters


is depicted as brave and outgoing, but careless and thoughtless, and wants to be a leader of her people. Her role model is a female warrior named Swan Circling. Created in collaboration with a consultation team that included representatives from the Nez Perce tribe, Kaya is the only Native American doll made by American Girl to date. Kaya is the only doll in the series not to show teeth, per tribal custom. Kaya is also the first doll in the series to not follow the book naming customs established by previously-
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African dolls


also known as the ‘love doll’. It is made in order to attract an eligible husband and also increase fertility in order to produce many children. The dolls are believed to have supernatural magic powers. Young Xhosa girls are encouraged by older Xhosa women to wear the dolls around their necks in order to increase their fertility during childbearing ages. The girls are usually given their first doll by their parents when they start their initiation practice. The girl will look after it carefully since it is believed that if it is lost
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Grand Dolls


Tetsuo takes the mysterious doll home and finds that a small bit of it is broken and repairs it. Instantly the doll transforms into the girl that Tetsuo had seen earlier. Once active, the girl informs Tetsuo that she is a "Grand Doll". At first, a Grand Doll looks like a kind of ordinary, blank doll, but when the back of the neck is rubbed, the doll can take on the form of a human or a horse. Scratching the back of the neck turns them back into their
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Andy Barclay


avail. Chucky begins shouting from the closet for Andy to let him out, but Andy instead escapes by opening the window and running home. When Andy comes home, Phil confronts him about his test paper, and Andy explains that Chucky did it. Phil takes him to the basement to prove the doll is not alive and surprisingly to him, Chucky is there. In the middle of the night, Andy hears a sound coming from downstairs. He arms himself with a knife and proceeds into the basement. From there he
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