“The object”, is such an impersonal name for it. My entry isn't about my reaction to the object because it is just as it is, an object. There is nothing intrinsically interesting about it.

I remember when I was younger and I used to play with metal military miniatures.

A Cluedo card for the Toy Car.

Toy Car as potential murder weapon, on the crime scene of the bus.
But the mystery remains unsolved.

It was back in the beginning of the 1900’s with mass production that toys became even more sex stereotyped as boys' toys increasingly idealized technology, constant innovation, and the values of co

The toy car is an American model, made in the U.K. British culture has imported from American culture in a number of instances, but not all.

Things we HAVE imported from the U.S.

This object reminded me of some possibly lead toys I had when I was a child. They had been my dad's toys back from the 1950s before people knew of the risks of lead.

I am interested in the car being a ‘Tootsie toy’; named after the daughter of the founder already giving it a feminine origin. ‘Tootsie’ is American slang for a girl or a young woman.

Whilst our child was licking his way through the paint on the outside of his Tootsie Sunliner millions of children in the US were licking their way through cherry red hard candy to get to the choco

“Miniature”, The Twilight Zone

A selection of websites which document various miniature worlds, including works by artists, scale models, video works and dolls houses.

http://www.miniatureworld.com/