Bombardino crocodilo, ballerina cappucina and trallalero trallala have become the latest brain-rot characters flying off toy shelves, replacing the once-popular Labubu dolls. While toymakers are cashing in on the trend, parents are amused as well as exasperat…

An Anne Shirley doll spotted in a Sydney, N.S., thrift store is earning jokes and nicknames online, but a Nova Scotia artist says she’s still beautiful. In fact, she is one of the last surviving pieces of art by his late mother, and he wants to find her.

In a hot pink den on the first floor, a large pair of women's eyes with full red lips seductively peer across the room to a poster of a kitten in a lawn chair with "Lazy Days" scrawled overtop. A doll watches the room from the corner.