Comments on: The Quick 10: How 10 Classic Toys Were Invented

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:09:39 +0000

“I live in Rockford,and the local history museum is trying to bring back the Sock Monkey.”

I don’t think they have to keep trying!! Sock monkeys are everywhere these days, and are particularly big in crafty/artsy circles.

By: Maxmanta

Maxmanta — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:51:47 +0000

My father worked as a designer for a number of toy companies. When I was a kid, he was always bringing prototype games and toys home for me to play with. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was functioning as a one-subject focus group. If I really liked a toy, it was taken from me and brought back to work. It may explain my inability to form lasting relationships as an adult.

By: Elly

Elly — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:40 +0000

This is either really freaky or really funny because last Thursday I read about the “most haunted” on this site and it included a couple of scary doll stories which I forwarded to my husband to read because it was really interesting. So on that Saturday we went to visit some relatives on the other side of town, during our visit my 2 year old daughter made friends with an older relative I didnt know to well but thought she was so adorable and asked me if it was ok to give her an old doll she thought she would enjoy. I didnt think much of it and agreed so before we were leaving she caught us at the door and gave my daughter this old porcelin doll it had a long white dress and curly black hair and had bright blue eyes that looked so real. Me and my husband stared at each other while my daughter was holding this life size doll she could bearly carry. I grabbed it from her and rushed to the car and placed it in the trunk (we both were kinda freaked out for a minute). By the time we got home from our two hour drive I forgot about it until I opened the trunk!! ahhh! I was freaked out all over again… So I did what any mature young woman would do… Put it in my brother’s closet. Let just say I had a good morning laugh. So my dilema now is what to do with this doll? Maybe Halloween decoration. So anyway I think its crazy that a read this today and under the Ragedy Ann Doll they commented about a porcelin doll.

By: Dara

Dara — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:06:19 +0000

Here’s how my hatred of clowns and dolls collided. When I went away to college, some relatives gave me a hand-made clown doll that creeped me out by constantly being in wierd places I didn’t remember putting it. One morning, I awoke to find said doll staring at me from atop my dresser with its hand in my half-open underwear drawer. My roommate was out of town at the time so I knew it wasn’t a joke. The doll went in the trash posthaste.

By: Missy

Missy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:07:07 +0000

I used to have a sea monkey kit too, but they were a different kind called Triops. They actually DID hatch
when they were supposed to. Once, though, one of them jumped out of the tank (it didn’t die though).
P.S.: I don’t do horror movies. ):

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:47 +0000

I was always fearful of my closet for a completely different reason. When I was 7 or 8 my whole family was down in the living room and out of no where there was a crash in my room. My huge bin of LEGOs somehow fell out of the top of the closet with no one around and I hadn’t touched it in like a week. So soon after signs appered on my door stating \Caution! Beware of falling stuff\ \Beware of floor! It bites back\ (How else do you find tons of little LEGOs all over a childs floor)

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:46:18 +0000

Haha, I also saw the Dolls movie and am still paranoid about creepy dolls and things coming out of my closet at night. I do have to have the door closed when i sleep, or at least have my boyfriend between me and the door.

By: little gator

little gator — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:57:00 +0000

I was an adult when someone gave me a sea monkey kit. Despite having grown-up skills at direction following and animal tending, I had exactly one hatch. Poor little guy looked pitiful all by itself.

By: Mr. Excitement!

Mr. Excitement! — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:38:00 +0000

My wife had a Wendy Walker doll when she was a little girl. It was a doll that stood about 2.5′ tall and had a pull string on the back with sayings. The first pull said “My name is Wendy and my sister’s name is Gayle!” The doll then went into the closet and never came out. Why? Because my wife’s name is “Wendy” and her only sister is named “Gayle”.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:01:00 +0000

Ha ha I like the fact that I was not the only one freaked out by the movie DOLLS. That is the worst thing you could ever let your kids watch. Especially when you collect dolls like my mom did. They were all over the place. I didn’t sleep good then and I still don’t. I searched everywhere for that movie..ya know to watch it again, face the demons head on. Ha ha not as bad as i remembered it….still that didn’t change a thing. Ha ha they still creep me out!