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.

I bought into the Labubu craze a few months ago. No, I’m not personally into the little monster doll with buck teeth; neither are my wife and our two kids, though we are all, at least notionally, adults. I say that because Labubu seems to appeal more to infan…