
TOY DEPT. ROBOTO
New Yorker Issue of 2003-02-10
You're a collector looking at .. alluring vinyl toys and fantasy figures ... Toy Tokyo, which occupies apartment 2F at 121 Second Avenue, [NYC] a walkup in a tenement.
The robots at Toy Tokyo are not the biggest-selling items. The dolls are--Blythe, for example, a foot-tall doll with a big head and big eyes...the new Blythe doll, which is a reissue and is made in Japan.... What [Junko Matsuno, the manager at Toy Tokyo] likes about Blythe is that you can pull a string on her back and her eyes change from blue to orange to green to pink. Robots won't do that.
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