doll sb/yourself up
（把 … ）打扮得花枝招展，装扮得漂漂亮亮
a lovely doll
一个可爱的洋娃娃
a rag doll
布娃娃
baby doll
婴儿娃娃
Top Toy, a newly founded brand of pop toys, or collectibles licensed as vinyl figurines and bobblehead dolls, is making a wider foray into the trendy toy market with plans to operate 100 stores and 1,000 toy vending machines in China this year.
The company quickly sought to reinvent Molly, creating new lines and adding costumes and decorations to create an endlessly replenished stream of the pouting doll.
Pop toys are collectibles licensed as vinyl figurines and bobblehead dolls.
Led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, the fresh fundraising attracted renowned investors including Family Foundation of chairman of Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture Cai Dongqing, New Oriental Education and Technology, Doll Capital Management and Sinovation Ventures, and Enlight Growth Partners.
Souvenirs available include a range of traditional cultural gifts, from typical Chinese food to dolls portraying characters from Peking Opera.
It has also created a new form of retail by combining retail with emojis through installing a claw crane, also called a teddy picker or a game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.
All of the toys and dolls in the machine are Block 12's IP.
Xu, who has since 2008 been making a living by designing apparel for dolls, gained prominence in recent years with her intricate creations.
"I started to make clothes for my dolls when I was in kindergarten.
Dolls seem to have a magical power that attracts me," said the 33-year-old Shanghai native.
"Such was her determination to create new clothes for her dolls that Xu would resort to scavenging from her surroundings.
On another occasion, she deconstructed her mother's gold necklace to create a pair of earrings for her doll.
Following her graduation, she found a job at an exhibition design company but soon realized that what she really wanted to do was craft accessories for dolls.
Xu said that the concept behind designing accessories for dolls is the same as for a human.
For instance, she pointed out that thick fabrics are not suitable for doll accessories because such small items need to be made with more delicate materials.
But her handicraft skills are not reserved exclusively for making accessories for dolls.
"I plan to open a doll museum in the future and hope I can carry on making apparels for dolls even when I am old," said Xu.
Next, it authorizes the emoji to an array of enterprises that use the creative content in themed dolls, cosmetics, accessories, jewelry, fashion, bank cards and other forms of merchandise.
It installed a claw crane, also called a teddy picker or a game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.
Also in the factory, wigs are glued to the heads of plastic dolls before being exported to developed markets in Europe, America and elsewhere in the world.
Ziaur Rahman, assistant general manager of MGL Company Bangladesh Ltd. , said their dolls featuring real human hair are very famous.
Such dolls are used in barber shops for basic training of novice hair dressers and beauticians, he said.
They practice cutting hair and putting the hair into stylish designs on these dolls, he added.
A child plays with a Barbie Saddle 'N Ride Horse and Doll, manufactured by Mattel Inc, at the Toy Retailers Association Dream Toys 2015 event in London.
While including some basic academic tools, best-sellers include items with such embellishments as those that display cartoons or that are embedded with dolls.
The rush to watch director Greta Gerwig's summer splash Barbie — the first movie to bring the Mattel doll to life — shows that thought-provoking and well-crafted Hollywood movies can captivate the evolving taste of Chinese audiences, industry observers said.
The mascot dolls are cut by workers using electric scissors instead of laser tailoring machines to reduce air pollution.
The electricity used in the production of the dolls is generated from photovoltaic installations on the factory's roof.
Furthermore, panda-related souvenirs such as headbands, dolls, school bags and decorative rings sold in stores at the base and in other parts of Chengdu have become popular.
With a few clicks of the finger, customers can purchase alpaca dolls from Peru, soap from Syria, rice and coffee beans from Laos, and other products from countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with the goods delivered direct to their door.
He Jun, head of Yiwu Luochen Crafts Trading Co Ltd, said the company's orders rose 50 percent from a year earlier, but it's difficult for the products – a large amounts of Santa Claus' figures and dolls – to be delivered right away.
According to customs classification, classical toys include animal toys, dolls, educational toys, wheeled toys, toy cars, and power-driven toys and models.
Fifty-five-year-old Yu Lingli is a native of Yiwu and has a small doll shop in the trade market.
I totally understand it," Yu said while pointing at a Chinese doll on the shelf.
The orders for the doll have been scheduled for June.
Dolls are no longer exclusively for children.
Jiang Fan, a 22-year-old college graduate in Shanghai, became captivated by Molly dolls two years ago.
"Molly dolls are little dolls with curly yellow hair, big turquoise eyes and pouting lips.
Jiang is not the only "big kid "who is fascinated with the dolls.
The company sold about 4 million Molly dolls in 2018 and expects to replicate the sales volume this year, Wang Ning, founder of Pop Mart, said in a speech at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in April.
"However, that is not the only reason young people have taken a fancy to Molly dolls rather than other toys.
Basically, displaying the dolls on a desk is enough.
Collections are popular across all age groups with cards and stickers, mini cars, figurines and dolls as the top choices of collections.
Among her other favorites are a notebook with printed quotes of Emperor Yongzheng (1722-35) in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Chinese princess dolls, and adhesive tapes painted with images of Beijing's Palace Museum.
Guo Ying, 21, a collegian in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, said although she buys loads of animation products and games-related dolls or pillows, what give her true joy are the adorable little objects she bought at various museums.
Then it authorizes the use of the emojis by companies in such products as themed dolls, or in other forms of merchandise including cosmetics, accessories, jewelry, fashion and bank cards.
It installed a claw game machine that dispenses dolls, in Beijing's Sanlitun, a trendy business and lifestyle district.
All of the toys and dolls in the machine use Block 12's IP.