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Plague & Playhouse
Season 5 Episode 540
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Shakespeare
Hello Mr. Smith. This is William Shakespeare the action figure, and I would be most remiss if I did not continue my narrative regarding my education in Stratford. You see, …
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Quill After Midnight
Season 5 Episode 539
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Night watchman
I must admit that my first impression of the William Shakespeare action figure was - what is all the big deal. I even have a background in Shakespeare acting - though I d…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Words at Play
Season 5 Episode 538
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NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING)
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys,
our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum
of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—
where the lights are…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Alphabet Blocks
Season 5 Episode 537
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NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING)
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys,
our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum
of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—
where the lights are…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
The Pillow Everyone Cries Into
Season 5 Episode 536
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NARRATOR (GEORGE):
The Toy Museum isn’t all hard plastic and sharp corners.
Some shelves are quieter.
Softer.
Places where the edges give way
and the labels blur a little.
Tonight, the Night …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Click, Click, Bamboo
Season 5 Episode 535
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NARRATOR (GEORGE):
The Toy Museum remembers everything.
It remembers the first teddy bear sewn by an immigrant.
It remembers Barbie striking a pose at a 1959 toy fair.
It remembers dragon t…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
And Ken
Season 5 Episode 534
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The Toy Museum has its own kind of gravity.
Once you’ve visited a shelf, it tugs at you.
Tonight, the Night Watchman finds himself
back in the Barbie gallery.
Same pink glow.
Same tiny shoes…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Barbie and the Closet
Season 5 Episode 533
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NARRATOR (GEORGE):
The Toy Museum never really sleeps.
It sighs. It settles. It adjusts its labels.
But somewhere, between the glass cases and the security cameras, the night gets… strange…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Aisle 3: Imagination
Season 5 Episode 532
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NARRATOR (GEORGE):
The Toy Museum KNOWS how to roar.
It has dragons that eat cars,
tiny metal racers that dare gravity,
and shelves of toys that glow and beep and shout.
But sometimes,
the mu…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Speed, Teeth, and Two Lanes
Season 5 Episode 531
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NARRATOR (GEORGE):
The Toy Museum has currents, like an ocean.
Soft shelves, hard shelves, loud shelves, quiet ones.
Last night, the Night Watchman nearly fell asleep
leaning against a Squi…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago