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  2. Dress-up - Wikipedia

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    Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game is called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.

  3. Ruth Handler - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American business magnate and inventor.She is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 [2] and being co-founder of toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot, as well as serving as the company's first president from 1945 to 1975.

  4. Troy Graham - Wikipedia

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    Thompson was discovered by Jimmy Hart and first came into wrestling as Troy 'The Hippie' Graham.During his initial career, he fulfilled the role of a heel.. Wrestling as the masked Dream Machine, Thompson captured the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship in 1981 after defeating Steve Keirn in the final bout of a one-night tournament.

  5. The true story behind 'Barbie's' discontinued dolls, from ...

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    The first Skipper doll was released in 1964. Created as an 8-year-old character, Skipper had a notably more youthful, cherubic appearance than big sister Barbie.

  6. Chatty Cathy - Wikipedia

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    Chatty Cathy was a pull-string "talking" doll originally created by Ruth and Elliot Handler and manufactured by the Mattel toy company from 1959 to 1965. The doll was first released in stores and appeared in television commercials beginning in 1960, with a suggested retail price of $18.00, though usually priced under $10.00 in catalog advertisements.

  7. Dream Machine - Wikipedia

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    Troy Graham (1949–2002), professional wrestler whose nickname is The Dream Machine; Dream Machine, a Calaway Park amusement park ride; Dream Machine, a ring name of Kazuo Sakurada; Dream Machine, a now defunct retail chain of fun centers filled with arcade games and more; Dream Machine, a device of the product group Unifi by Ubiquiti_Networks ...

  8. Mannequin - Wikipedia

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    Mannequins in a clothing shop in Canada A mannequin in North India. A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.

  9. American Character Doll Company - Wikipedia

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    I Love Lucy baby doll, introduced in 1952. American Character dolls were thought to be well-made, with good-quality costumes. [4] Early dolls were made of composition; one of their first lines of mother and character dolls was introduced in 1923 and called "Petite;" they remained popular into the 1930s.