I took the girls to Mint, the Singapore Museum of Toys. This place is just amazing! The girls got to be photographed in front of a 6-foot tall Tetsujin 28! ‘Nuff said. Plus:
Holy Digestive Juices, Batman!
I like this strangely cryptozooic, yeti-like Batman, with Robin looking cut out for a career in middle-management.
There’s five floors packed with stuff. A lot of Asian stuff, naturally. That’s all wonderful and fascinating. I have rather American tastes, of course, and was not disappointed by all the Betty Boop and L’il Abner and Fritz the Cat and so forth.
Here is a Kim Deitch-worthy tin toy. Bunch of mice playing the piano – and why shouldn’t they be, after all?
I liked this creepy doll.
Kids! If you come to Singapore, make your parents take you to Mint, the Singapore Museum of Toys.
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Meredith 01.03.14 at 6:31 am
That last, the creepy doll, is Howdy Doody, who is ubiquitous, it seems, to me, though maybe I am just projecting. Some of my earliest memories are of him (truly early — those hazy visual memories, without time but full of place and space), though even earlier (and much warmer) memories are of Miss Frances’ Ding Dong School. I was never enthralled by Captain Kangaroo — my disadvantage, given what I’ve learned since about him.
Happy New Year to you, the girls, and Belle!
Belle Waring 01.03.14 at 9:21 am
Hi Meredith, thanks, and Happy New Year to you and yours!
Katherine 01.03.14 at 9:49 am
Should you ever be passing by in London, do go into the V&A Museum of Childhood. It is excellent, and building in which it is housed is wonderful.
John Holbo 01.03.14 at 9:55 am
I was really impressed by the Mint building, let me add. Apparently it’s geomantically sound. I don’t know about that. But it’s sure a nice play for toys.
Ronan(rf) 01.05.14 at 2:08 am
“Kids! If you come to Singapore, make your parents take you to Mint, the Singapore Museum of Toys.”
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