Back in the 70s, ‘Free to Be You and Me,’ an exploration of gender equality, pointed out why William should have a doll. Those very same children raised on the songs of Marlo Thomas grew up to lead toy companies that segregated play by sex or gender.
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In a movie that encourages embracing differences, why does everyone look the same?
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D. Carron, author of L.A.W.L.S., is running a second Kickstarter—this time to create magical dolls representing four emotions and elements.
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Custom-made Halloween peg dolls, a plant that dies and comes back to life, and a game where you kill off your family to win!
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The nice people at Lottie Dolls are holding a superhero outfit design competition in order to get girls believing that they can be superheroes, too! #girlsuperhero
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Artist Nickolay Lamm wants to change the way girls think about body image, so he’s created the Lammily doll—proportioned like the average 19-year-old American girl.
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Disney previews its dedicated lineup of toys, clothes, and accessories featuring everyone’s favorite tinker and her fairy friends.
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A geeklet gets to test out a Makie Doll — a custom designed, 3D printed doll that is a refreshing change from all of the “girly” dolls out there at the moment.
Continue ReadingHarmony B. Sharp is a musical toy that’s sure to be a favorite of the smallest singers in your house. She comes with six pigtails that determine her songs, and you interact with her by pressing a button in her chest. Read on for the pros and cons of this sweet musical doll.
Continue ReadingWhat do you do when a series of books you are supposed to review are so beautiful, so creative, so artistic and so imaginative, that you can’t summon up the words it would take to describe it? This is the quandary I find myself in over a series of books about Kokeshi dolls by author Annelore […]
Continue ReadingLet me tell you a little bit about my son. He’s obsessed with automobiles. My wife, Natania, wrote about her life with cars back when our kid was three, and his obsession with things that go vroom hasn’t abated a bit …
Continue ReadingIn 2007, a video on YouTube of a little dancing robot that looked kind of like a yellow snowman with the consistency of a marshmallow went viral, drawing to date more than 2.7 million views. The robot’s name was Keepon, …
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever seen the old Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll,” you remember Talky Tina. She’s basically the old Chatty Cathy doll, only malevolent. Talky Tina tortures and eventually kills the grumpy dad character, who was incidentally played by Telly …
Continue ReadingHere at GeekDad, we do tend to feature many items for the boys. As part of my New Years Resolution, I am going to be more fair to both of my children when it comes to showing interest in their …
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