A child opens a box. He starts jumping and screaming with joy—not an unusual sound in the halls of Mattel’s headquarters where researchers test new toys. But this particular toy is a doll, and it’s ...

The latest Barbie slays in a chic blue polka-dot crop top, ruffled miniskirt, chunky heels and an insulin pump. She is the brand’s first doll with type 1 diabetes. Dollmaker Mattel worked with ...

In February, the American Girl brand, beloved for its expansive (and expensive) line of books, toys, and clothing, made an announcement: A new doll in its collection of historically themed characters, ...

Barbie likely wouldn't exist if Mattel's founder hadn't stumbled across Bild Lilli, a plastic doll based on a comic strip. For years Ruth Handler had struggled to convince her colleagues to make an ...

The team behind the New England Society for Psychic Research have issued an update following reports of a missing haunted doll which sent social media users into a frenzy. They are keen to point out ...

Sitting beside a neatly made crib, 88-year-old Vivian Guzofsky holds up a baby doll dressed in puppy dog pajamas. "Hello gorgeous," she says, laughing. "You're so cute." Guzofsky, who has Alzheimer's ...

Annabelle, a real Raggedy Ann doll that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren believed was possessed by a demonic entity, rose to fame as the inspiration for a fictional doll of the same ...

It might have been surprising to hear that the princesses in Disney movies can impact your body image, but some more recent news about what’s screwing with our self-perception isn’t so shocking.

When all was said and done, Thomas Edison would call his talking dolls his "little monsters." National Museum of American History Editor’s Note, December 18, 2020: A new Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast ...