Toy makers have been getting backlash over skinny dolls, but not this one. — -- Toy manufacturers have been getting backlash in recent years for making dolls too pretty, too skinny and too ...

Barbie may be glam and perhaps beyond perfect, but those characteristics are far from reality. So a Pittsburgh area inventor named Nickolay Lamm created what he calls a beautifully average doll to ...

If the popularity of Hydraulic Press has taught us anything, it's that the internet has a sick obsession with watching things being crushed, smashed, and generally obliterated. That explains why so ...

Step aside, Barbie, there’s a new sheriff in town. She’s Lammily, the doll with a more realistic body shape, replete with “flaws” (think cellulite and acne). And, yes, she is now on sale for children.

I like the black humor and whimsical Schadenfreude of kids gleefully pasting acne, surgical scars, and cellulite beads all over their “Barbies.” Doll play often has a whiff of latent sadism—think of ...