The Doll Blog

What’s good for the industry, is good for the doll lover. And the news this week out of Internet Retailer Magazine was very good! Using 2007 reported numbers, Online Toy e-tailers grew about 15% compared to traditional Brick and Mortar Retailers at only 4.9% The biggest success story in dolls probably American Girl LLC at [...]

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Question number one: Do you have a daughter or grandaughter who shares your love of dolls? Question number two: Of all your dolls, who is your favorite? As you can see from my blog, I love all things “doll.” If you’re like me, this obsession probably leaves some of your family scratching their heads. Well, [...]

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Are you a true doll lover? So much so that your significant other is complaining about how much “money you waste on dolls?” Well here’s some good news for you: it’s only pennies! How do we know? Well first, The NPD Group Inc, released a report on the Global Toy Industry this week, and the [...]

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A doll collector recently visited our PattycakeDoll black collectible dolls page and then sent us this question: “What doll magazines or books would you recommend to a collector who collects African American Dolls?” “What a great question!”, I thought, and then realized, “I don’t have a good answer.” IMHO there are really only four magazines [...]

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OK, how important could the Presidential elections be to the ‘Doll’ industry, right? I can here the groans now… Peter Please! Well, depending on whose figures you use, Toys are a 20 Billion Dollars a year industry, with dolls about 2 to 3 Billion of that. And of course, 80% come from China. So throw [...]

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If you are a customer of ours you are probably aware of the fact that we donate 10% of our profits to children’s charity. It is but one way for us to harness the community of doll lovers to do Tzedakah (Hebrew for charity) Here is another way…. The Pink Artist Project: is a group [...]

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