Dear Toy Box Philosopher blog readers, I’m Hannah, an adult doll collector from London, United Kingdom, and the author of The Toy Gems blog...

I can't believe it's been more than a year since my imitation Blythe doll review .  Do you remember that whole saga?  I reviewed a c...

Thank you to everyone who wished me well with my arm injury!  The cuts are healing slowly and of course the scars will have good anecdotal v...

I always try to avoid writing reviews that take three days to read.  I really do.  I have mixed success with this, though ( the Monster High...

I have all of these carefully-laid plans with the blog, I promise I do, but then things keep coming along to derail those plans--often in a ...

I had fun hosting a guest review on the blog again (thank you, Lurkins!).  It felt like the good old days.  It's nice to get somebody e...

Hi, I'm the artist formerly known as Lurkins!  I've been collecting 18" dolls since I cleaned out my attic in 2014 and rediscov...

Happy September!  For the last six years, September in my life has meant helping one or both of my kids move into a new apartment or a new s...

I mentioned in my Gwynn Tan review that I've gotten a little obsessed with 14-inch dolls lately, and so I decided to write a series of ...

I got a little nostalgic about the blog this week.  As I was writing today's review, which features Gywnn Tan, a 14-inch American Girl ...

Is anyone in the mood to go back to the 1980s for a toy boombox battle?  I hope so!  During my research for Part One of the L.O.L. Surprise...

Today's review was originally the second half of my Honey Bee Acres post , but the whole thing was crushingly long.  I was boring myself...

Well, I'm finally back with a Wizarding World Hermione review!  I was going to try and keep this post a little shorter than it is, but I...

The original Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron movie by DreamWorks came out in 2002--the year my kids were two and four years old.  My four-...

The suspense is over!  Here's my update to the Wonder Woman comparison review from earlier in the week. To recap: Mattel offers two d...

After watching the Wonder Woman preview fifteen times, I finally got a chance to go and see the real film.  It's amazing...or it has ma...

This is my second comparison review of dolls from the new live action  Beauty and the Beast movie.  You can find my review of the Hasbro an...

Last year, when I was re-thinking this blog and figuring out how to keep it in my life, I made a few resolutions.  One of them was that I wo...

Whew.  I was so emotionally bogged down by that Global Girl review (I dislike writing negative reviews...), I needed to do something fun imm...

I've been doing a lot of organizing and cleaning in preparation for the upcoming repair of my studio ceiling.  All of this work has unea...