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8:27am on Sunday, 5th April, 2026:

Dress-Down Doll

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We were in a charity shop recently and bought a toy for our grandson. He's a bit young for it at the moment, but I'm sure it will bring him hours of education, or at least entertainment, when he gets older.

So, it's like one of those paper dress-up dolls you can get, but it's made of plywood. Also, you don't so much dress him up as dress him down. You start with a boy, then you take off his clothes, then you take off his skin, then you take off his muscles, then you take off his everything else until he's just a skeleton.

It's ... er ... well-intentioned.



You can remove different individual parts, you don't have to take the whole body to the same level. Want to see what a naked boy with a skeleton head and visible intestines looks like? You can do it.

Here are two simple examples, where I kept him clothed but burrowed into his head.



One looks like Homer Simpson, the other looks as if he didn't put on enough suntan lotion.

You can make great zombies with it, as I'm sure you can imagine. As for the groin area, well my wife and daughter we howling with laughter at what they could do with that, but I didn't look at their creations for fear of psychological trauma.

Quite why the hair stays on until you reach the skull, I don't know. So much for anatomical correctness.




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