What do you picture when you think of dolls? Pink clothes, fair skin, blue eyes and long hair are the usual features conjured up. But in a pretty standardised market, some innovative companies are ...

Barbie has just grown its family with the debut of its first-ever autistic doll. The doll was created over more than 18 months and developed in close partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy ...

What is it about our bizarre fascination with simulacra — can anyone answer us that? That's what this Amazing Amanda doll is all about — a doll so realistic she can speak, eat, recognize her "Mommy," ...

It's no secret that comic book and superhero-related companies have become notorious for gearing their merchandise towards male fans. Millar's daughter, an avid Avengers fan, wanted the Black Widow ...

In a small, apartment art studio near Converse Heights, Cynthia C. Gibson, of Cynthia Gibson Pyrography, closely examined a tiny wooden doll that she had just put the finishing touches on with a ...