The word 'figurines' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to small decorative objects typically made of ceramic, clay, or plastic, often depicting human or animal figures. Example: "The antique shop was filled with beautiful figurines from different cultures and time periods."
I don't think anyone would argue that it's probably better for little Johnny or Jane if their parents would rather whittle wooden figurines with them than pop them in front of Frozen or Angry Birds on the iPad.
For those who know Berlin, there's something beguilingly moving about the glimpses of the city's life – the Mickey Mouse figurines in the confiserie, the list of prices in a cafe, the faces of invalids and beggars.
The eight-inch-tall figurines, which include depictions of "house slave" Stephen (played by Samuel L Jackson in the film) and Jamie Foxx's Django, were on sale via Amazon and other sites priced at $39.99 per model.
As if in confirmation, the image of two male figurines holding hands on a wedding cake generated more hostile correspondence than any cover had before, overshadowing even the paper's call for the abolition of the British monarchy.
The earliest known examples of such fired-clay figurines are 27,000 years old and come from central Europe.These discoveries tell archaeologists something about early man's cultural development, and perhaps even about his spiritual ideas.
It abuts a marketplace selling sombreros, confetti-filled eggs called cascarones (see picture) and skeleton figurines used to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
Slinkachu, whose real name is Stuart Pantoll, takes a quiet approach to street art: instead of wielding spray cans on city walls, he uses train-set figurines and props to create miniature installations in pavement cracks, on bits of litter, and between other pieces of urban flotsam.
Mr Ventura's team has sold over 4,500 "bobblehead" dolls, flimsy plastic figurines of the governor with a wobbly head, since last November.
Sixteen people can live there and it houses Mr Wilson's vast collection of objets chairs, sculptures, figurines, photographs and his archive.
His solo show at the Larry Gagosian gallery in Manhattan last summer, where his works were priced at $100,000-$100,000-$1.6mt before it even opened.Mr Murakami argues that the Japanese fixation with violent comic books, titillating plastic figurines and super-cute creatures, such as Hello Kitty, is a product of the country's sense of impotence following the second world war.
When asked in 2009 to write an article about his favourite museum for Intelligent Life, our sister magazine, he instantly offered to return to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, the state capital, with its colossal Olmec stone heads and laughing figurines, the union of the sacred and the human.
