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If you lost money with Bernie Madoff -- or are watching one of your favorite charities suffer because of his perfidy -- then ModelWorkshas a toy for you.

The "Smash-Me-Bernie" doll features Madoff in a devil-red suit carrying a pitchfork, and even comes with a hammer to help you smash him. The doll is making its debut at New York City's Toy Fair and when it's available to the public, will retail for $99.95.

You can watch some clips of the doll in the video below. It seems a little expensive for a recession toy -- I'd prefer a good-old fashioned Raggedy Fuld or Raggedy Bernie doll.

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Move over, American Girl dolls and corporate parent Mattel (NYSE: MAT). Ellis Island dolls are vying for the collectible budget of hyphenated Americans with a unique version of Americana through various online channels.

What may have been the first wave of Ellis Island dolls surfaced as early as 1992 after the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation let Lenox, today known as Lenox Group (OTCBB: LENX), create a limited edition of six dolls to mark the centennial of Ellis Island. With porcelain heads, hands and legs and costumes, the dolls each measured 1.5 feet tall or slightly smaller and portrayed immigrants of various nationalities, such as "Eva," from Germany, "Stefan" of Poland and "Katrina" of Russia. Artist Pat Thompson served as designer for three of the dolls, which originally cost $152 a piece.

While Lenox Group has created many art ceramics, collectibles and figurines over its 120-year history, since November 23 it has been reorganizing under Chapter 11.

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From Ellis Island to eBay, it's a doll world originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The new American Girl Doll, Nicki, costs $86, by far the priciest doll in the collection. Her dog will set you back $24. The horse is $62, but its accessories are another $34. So all told, you're talking about spending over $150 on a doll for a girl.

One of the the hottest items in the doll category is the Bratz doll, which costs around $9. Which would you rather see on your daughter's wish list?

According to a Wall Street Journal article [subscription], American Girl Nicki is athletic and loves animals. "She skis like a demon, rides horses, trains guide dogs, plans school parties, washes the dishes, battles popularity crises, and helps her little brother with his math homework."

Over at the Bratz webpage, we see Sasha: "My friends call me 'Bunny Boo' because I love the hip-hop thang."

A look at pictures of the dolls is also very revealing. While Nicki is dressed ready for activity and fun, Bratz Megan, Roxxi, and Sasha are dressed like ... well, let's just say they are dressed in a way that very few parents would want their eight-year-olds to dress.

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girl with barbieBarbie is inviolate. Girls since the beginning of time (let's be clear: time didn't start, toywise, until the Barbie) have begged for Barbies, and no more time more loudly and earnestly than at Christmas. Even my four-year-old, mud-puddle-jumping, super-hero-adoring son wants a Barbie.

That was. Until Bratz came along. For the past few years Mattel, Inc. (NYSE:MAT) has been fighting tooth and nail to keep up with the overly-madeup, hiphop bad girls with the big heads. Where Barbie is too curvaceous, Bratz are too too -- too street, too saucy. If Barbie represents the unrealistic dimensions of a Vogue model, Bratz represent the unwanted idealization of a girl who hangs out at a strip mall when she should be in government class, spends her allowance on collagen lip injections, and dates a rapper twice her age.

Barbie sales have been falling in the past several years thanks to the formidably mispelled bad girls of the fashion doll world. They attempted to combat closely-held MGA Entertainment, Inc., who manufactures the Bratz dolls, in the marketplace by positioning its My Scene dolls to compete directly (although MGA sued Mattel last year, claiming that Mattel had changed the My Scene dolls to imitate Bratz too closely). When that didn't work so well, they brought out the big guns: an IP lawsuit.

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Mattel fighting dirty to survive this holiday season originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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