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	Beanie Zoo - Large stock of Beanie Babies, also selling Furby and Pokemon collectibles.
	Merrythought - Soft toy manufacturer whose teddy bears have become collectibles. Includes International Collectors' Club and online ordering.
	When We Were Young - Specialises in current and discontinued items relating to childhood characters collectable items.
	Holland Toys - Antique toys, biscuit tins and advertisements from 1880 to 1960. Profile, illustrated catalog priced in Euro, wanted list and ordering instructions.
	Bear Necessities collectable bears - Retailer of collectable bears. This site sells Ty, Hermann, Steiff, Chubbley, Gund and all collectable plush. Offers a full mail order service.
	Sheringcraft - Sheringcraft in Sheringham, Norfolk stocks a wide range of bears which are made by Deans, Russ, Gund, Cukoo, Ty, Jellycat and the new Weberley and Friends to purchase online.
	Paws For Bears - Stock, make and repair a wide range of collectable and cuddly bears. Catalogue and contact details.
	eddy-bears - Exclusive, cute teddy bears made and sold by the artist.
	Merrythought Virtual Factory - Allows you to design, build and buy your own bespoke "Cheeky" bear online - also provides information on the Merrythought International Club.
	Old Bear Scene - Antique and vintage Teddy Bears by Steiff, Bing, Schuco, Ideal, Farnell and Chiltern Sales and portraits
	Lightning Cards - Seller of popular CCG cards - Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Trek. UK site, order by e-mail.
	House Atreides - Worldwide CCG Singles sales - Magic, LOTR, Pokemon, Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh, L5R, Vampire, Buffy, Star Trek, Football Champions, Warhammer, Tomb Raider, and Xena.
	Something Special. - Based at Banham Zoo in Norfolk. Offers Ty products including Beanies, and trading cards. Ordering via e-mail.
	Orchard Bears - Traditional mohair bears for collectors designed and made by Hayley Orchard based in Buckinghamshire, England.
	Prestige Cards & Collectables - Offers items for enthusiasts including trading and gaming cards, posters, postcards, collectable figures and action figures. Includes priced product catalogue and order form.
	KR Bears and Dolls - Collectible bears and dolls including Himstedt, Gotz, Ruth Treffeisen, Tonner, Sigikid, Waltershauser, White Balloon, Zapf and Zwergnase dolls. Bears include artist bears, Bo Bears, Grisly, Gund, Gunzel and Zwergnase.
	Hawkin's Bazzar - A range of toys for adults and collectors only. Includes product and ordering information.
	Tinplate Toys - Collectible tin and tinplate toys, tins and miscellaneous items, vintage and modern.
	CBToys - Fine antique toys and collectables, plus Triang Railways, Minic Motorways, Scalextric, Topper, and books. Specialists in selling clients' own collections.
	Dream Saver Toys - 80s online toy shop - Stocks a wide variety of toys from the 80's for purchase online. Toys include My Little Ponies, Thundercats, He-Man, She-Ra, and Care Bears.
	Collectors Toys, coins and Posters sale promotion - Retired collector sells his many varied collections. Plus a unique range of posters he has produced depicting photo's of key pieces from this vast range of collectables that he amassed over the years
	Utterly Horses UK Breyer Model Horses - UK based Breyer horse specialists, offering the full range of Breyer collectables with full online shopping facilities. Display racks and books are also available.
	Cornish Pony's My Little Pony Website - Original 1980's My Little Pony toys for sale including UK exclusive ponies.
	Bearly Unique - Artist bears by Janet Russell, as well as a selection of vintage bears, dolls and other toys for sale.
	Bizzy Bears - Offers a variety of bears shipped with a message balloon and box of chocolates. Other animals also offered.
	Vintage Toybox - Collectable childrens books, toys, games.
	Miss Penny magical rag dolls - Designer dresses and collectable rag dolls made by Merrythought with online interactive stories and adventures in the magic forest.
	Puddleducks - Traditional wooden theatre puppets, dolls houses, furniture, model cars and rocking horses. Online purchase available, or visit their shop in Sidmouth, Devon.
	Bears At Unique Collectables - Online sales of artist's and manufactured teddy bears.
	Tripitaka Toys - Specialising in imported Japanese toys and collectables.
	Bourton Bears - Old teddy bears from UK specialists in antique, old and well-loved bears. Online catalogue and articles.
	Mini Model Cars - A full range of metal diecast model cars and motorbikes for the perfect gift.
	McBears - Selection of both antique and modern teddy bears. Quiz, games and articles.
	Corgi - Diecast model cars, toys and collectibles. Includes links to other official stockists and distributors.
	RetroTrader - Collectable retro vintage toys, books, games, computers and consoles.

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I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Toys and Games I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Toys and Games Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Toys and Games "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Toys and Games Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. 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Harper Toys and Games Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Toys and Games There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Toys and Games "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Toys and Games Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Toys and Games Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. 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