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