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  • These mallets have larger heads and longer handles than their toy-store counterparts, allowing for a more controlled hit.

    Grass Menagerie 2011

  • As Buddy attempts to acclimatise to alien New York life, he falls in love with toy-store employee Jovie, who shares his "affinity for elf culture".

    My favourite film: Elf 2011

  • Father Luke's cramped office has become part food pantry, part pharmacy, part toy-store, part social-work clinic.

    Copts Seek Asylum in America 2011

  • My son was screaming into a toy-store microphone the lyrics to a song he heard first on my iPod and to which he now knows every not-appropriate-for-a-5-year-old word.

    Maybe You Can't Have Balance, After All Katherine Rosman 2011

  • Encased in their plastic casings on toy-store shelves, much like the living caskets that the human bodies in Avatar rest within, the toys become cybernetic apparati of the imagination.

    BlogGoblin Mercantile Exchange 2010

  • Encased in their plastic casings on toy-store shelves, much like the living caskets that the human bodies in Avatar rest within, the toys become cybernetic apparati of the imagination.

    Review of Avatar (3D) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2009

  • The princess industry has been booming in the past few years -- not just the Disney dolls and scratchy toy-store ball gowns that are a rite of passage in most American girlhoods, but a brazen new breed of princess products that target a far wider age range and tap into less seemly attitudes.

    Bringing Up Princess: Turning Girls Into Narcissists 2009

  • I had, of course, grown up years too early for the original G.I. Joe (b. 1964), but one spring in the mid-1980s, during his second heyday, I paid a journalistic visit to the Toy Fair, a yearly industry bash for toy-store buyers held in New York City.

    Tom Engelhardt: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism 2009

  • Her father, Siegfried Weigl (1869 – 1941), was an accountant general in a textile factory, and her mother, Leopoldine Pollak Weigl (1867 – Vienna 1927), was a toy-store proprietor.

    Helene Weigel. 2009

  • This makes the PS3 this year's toy-store holy grail, despite the fact that there's another high-def console available, Microsoft's Xbox 360.

    Playstation Strikes Back 2008

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