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I was very excited this week to discover that Takara Tomy of Japan has a brand new Jenny website, just in time for her 25th anniversary. The Jenny doll is Takara’s Barbie-equivalent… only she’s not, really, because the premier Japanese fashion doll (the one as ubiquitous in Japan as Barbie is in America) is Licca-chan, [...]

It feels a little silly to be expressing my outrage over Mattel’s “MyScene My Bling Bling” dolls when they’ve been out for over a year. When I first saw them in 2005, I wanted to think that they were a misguided experiment. With the success of MGA Entertainment’s Bratz dolls amongst kids, tweens, and young [...]