Hmm. Mad Audio Equipment For Dolls

Dad, music editor, and one of DT's earliest readers Tom Whitwell runs Music Thing, which is like Gizmodo for serious musicians. Except that for the last little while, he's added dolls to his target demo. Turns out there's a whole...
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Now On eBay: Community Playthings, Starck Trike

A couple of eBay finds, if you're doing some off-the-wall holiday shopping, near Denver, or both: There is a pretty decent-looking six-piece collection of vintage Community Playthings kitchen toys [well, five, plus one awesome phonebooth] in Aurora, near Denver....
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When I Was A Boy, The Porter Cat Was Black

Here's a photoset on flickr that tracks some of the interesting changes between the 1963 edition of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever and the 1991 re-issue. Just one example from the cover: the cat pushing the stroller is now...
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