Those products include comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.

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But for much of this century they were essentially a preparation for serious adult roles: baby dolls and toy kitchens for girls, erector sets, toy trucks and train sets for boys.

ECONOMIST: Toys

You make dolls in a toy shop, and you shop for sofas, and, you, I don't know what you do.

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Caregivers can use dolls, play materials and toy airplanes to create a scene that helps the child to conceptualize and develop a narrative around what happened.

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Mattel claimed that Bryant, who freelanced for MGA, violated an employment agreement by helping the rival toy company develop its line of Bratz dolls while still employed by Mattel.

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Dolls account for fully 16.8% of toy sales in Spain, compared with 9.7% in Britain and just 7.9% in Germany.

ECONOMIST: Toys and culture

"I'm thrilled that there are all these little dolls of me, " says Wen, an avid toy collector.

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