I noticed this because my 6-year-old stepson totes three to school, and his doll games are all about adventure.
With her sister, Pamela, Jackson has also constructed a fascinating Web site called "The Doll Games," which is simultaneously a game, a meditation, an art project, a remembrance and an exploration of the various things dolls can get up to, some of which are decidedly not nice.
In retrospect, I see I played the doll game incorrectly back in second grade.
He got teased a lot in school, not so much because he played Barbie-doll games with the girls but because he was so bad at sports.
In another room, tables were stacked with dolls, games and toy cars that were donated to the children.
The toy line, which will include dolls, games and high-technology toys, will initially be sold only in Warner Brothers Studio Stores.
Decades after his first acquisition, Mr. Hammett, 50, has amassed a vast collection that includes horror movie posters, toys, dolls, games, costumes, masks, original artwork and other mementos.
"And that means no one is excluded culturally," said Ms. Masi de Casanova, so Nickelodeon can market Dora dolls, games, bed linens and children's clothing to a wide range of consumers.
The argument would be that these groups, whose tentacles reach from satellite broadcasting and the Internet to theme parks and shops, have many more ways of pumping out music to record buyers and turning bands into brands, with dolls, games and the like.Would going it alone be such a bad thing for EMI?
Moshi Monsters are finding their way into all sorts of kids merchandise, including collectible toy figurines (more than 20 million sold in the UK alone last year), plush dolls, games, the No. 1 kids magazine in the UK, mobile apps, and even temporary tattoos.
Mattel is already big in the ethnic-doll game in the U.S. with various Asian friends of Barbie.
