![]() ![]() It's important to check the age range for any toy you plan to buy. What to Look for in Sesame Street Toys Age-Appropriate As kids pull the blanket up and down, Elmo responds with one of 13 phrases. There’s also the GUND Peek-A-Boo Elmo ( view on Amazon) for some fun play time with Elmo. There’s Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, and even that grumpy, but loveable grouch, Oscar-a whole gang of friends ready for some awesome pretend play anytime, anywhere. There’s something a little too obsessive about Amma’s exact replica of her mother’s New Orleans mansion.For a budget-friendly Sesame Street toy, check out the Sesame Street Playskool Collector Pack ( view on Amazon). The rare fictional dollhouse to belong to a boy (or more precisely, an alien in a boy suit), the 18th century dollhouse in 2011’s ‘Night Terrors’ traps anyone who frightens little George and transforms him or her into a blank-faced wooden doll. It’s also beautiful – but spying on Hogencamp’s private world can’t help but feel intrusive. Photographer Mark Hogencamp’s Barbie-inhabited World War II-era town (as seen in the 2010 documentary Marwencol and fictionalized in Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen) has a lot of layers: it’s art, therapy, masturbatory fantasy, gender exploration, and history project. When an accident leaves the house in pieces, Lorelei (Lauren Graham) realizes it’s one more thing she needs to let go. Sookie (Melissa McCarthy) describes her best friend’s expensive Victorian dollhouse as “the only thing from Lorelei’s childhood that she actually liked.” Still, it’s an artifact of her privileged-yet-oppressive upbringing. The giant Victorian that Monica inherits from her bitchy Aunt Sylvia has hardwood floors and a china cabinet, but ranks below Phoebe’s version because no dinosaurs are allowed.Ī very large, no-frills townhouse that resembles the Banks’ home at 17 Cherry Tree Lane. ![]() But it’s a covetable front-opening model, tastefully decorated in high early-’90s style (so many pastels!) with ceilings high enough for Barbie. Tinkerbell fakes her death by falling down the tiny stairs of this dollhouse, which is a little grim. Paddington the Bear’s adoptive family have a Georgian townhouse modeled after their London home – which, in one of the film’s many inventive storytelling devices, becomes a window in the Browns’ private lives. The Browns’ attic dollhouse in Paddington The Potter-rendered dollhouse (based on a real one constructed by her publisher fiancée) is a dream, and so detailed that every single kitchen canister is not only labeled, but filled with tiny colored beads. The dollhouse in Beatrix Potter’s “Tale of Two Bad Mice”Īdapted for the 1992 animated BBC series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, the story of house mice Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca sneaking into a turn-of-the-century dollhouse, then wreaking havoc when they realize the food isn’t real, is pure child wish-fulfillment. It’s tragically flammable, but even in miniature, you can’t have everything. Phoebe’s custom-built home has a slide instead of stairs, a licorice room with a Tootsie roll-away bed, and a bubble chimney. Reportedly modeled after the 1983 Barbie dream house (distinguishing feature: a hot-pink plastic elevator), Ken’s bachelor pad benefits from the addition of a walk-in closet with a disco ball. The beautiful dollhouse in this 1970 Sesame Street segment was designed and built by Jim Henson for his daughters, modeled on their Greenwich, Connecticut home and sized for their Madame Alexander dolls. The “Two Little Dolls” house on Sesame Street ![]() In honor of our current dollhouse-assainace, Vulture has created a guide to TV and film’s most notable dollhouses, organized by where they fall on the scale from delightful (the dollhouse Phoebe made on Friends) to downright sinister (the title toy of Amityville Dollhouse). And we may be in the dark dollhouse timeline right now, but looking ahead to December, Welcome to Marwe n (an uplifting drama adapted from a complicated documentary) will introduce audiences to a doll village that saved a man’s life. On HBO’s southern Gothic miniseries Sharp Objects, Amy Adams’ childhood home is eerily echoed by her younger half-sister’s pristine lookalike dollhouse. The indie horror hit Hereditary revolves around an artist ( Toni Collette) who uses dolls to work out her demons, placing them in tableaux both mundane and horrifying. Dollhouses - those handy miniature metaphors for either childhood wonder or the corruption of innocence - are having a big summer. ![]()
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