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Toyland (other)
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Toyland may refer to: * ''Toyland'' (film), a 2007 German short film * "Toyland" (comics), a 1948 Donald Duck comic book short story written and drawn by Carl Barks * Toyland'','' an amusement park in Clifton Beach, Karachi. *"Toyland", a song from the 1903 operetta '' Babes in Toyland'' * The world of the Noddy books, created by Enid Blyton * Toyland, a toy area from the defunct Canadian chain Zellers * Land of Toys or Toyland (original name: ''Paese dei balocchi''), a fictional location in the Italian novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1881-1883) and several adaptations of the story in other media See also * Babes in Toyland (other) Babes in Toyland may refer to: * ''Babes in Toyland'' (operetta), a 1903 operetta by Victor Herbert * ''Babes in Toyland'' (1934 film), a musical comedy starring Laurel and Hardy, based on the Victor Herbert operetta * ''Babes in Toyland'' (TV s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyland (film)
''Toyland'' (german: Spielzeugland) is a German 2007 short subject, short film directed and co-written by Jochen Alexander Freydank. It won the 2009 Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Live Action Short Film. Cast * Julia Jäger - Marianne Meißner * Cedric Eich - Heinrich Meißner * Tamay Bulut Öztavan - David Silberstein * Torsten Michaelis - Herr Silberstein * Claudia Hübschmann - Frau Silberstein * David C. Bunners - SS-Obersturmführer Falke * Gregor Weber - SS officer Werner * Jürgen Trott - Policeman * Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann - ''Blockwart'' * Heike W. Reichenwallner - neighbor * Matthias Paul (actor), Matthias Paul - Gestapo officer Synopsis The film is set in Nazi Germany in 1942. An Aryan family, the Meißners, and a Jewish family, the Silbersteins, are neighbors and friends. The respective sons in each family, Heinrich Meißner and David Silberstein, discreetly take piano lessons together. The deportation of the Silbersteins t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyland (comics)
"Toyland" is an 8-page Disney comics story drawn and lettered by Carl Barks. Barks may have written the tale, but this is uncertain. "Toyland'" features Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Santa Claus. It was first published by Dell as a Firestone Giveaway entitled ''Donald and Mickey Merry Christmas'' #1948 (December 1948). Also in the volume is an 8-page Mickey Mouse story entitled "A Day with Santa". Plot Santa Claus invites Donald and his nephews to the North Pole to test the Christmas toys. Donald has a rough time (he crashes through the roof on a pogo stick, for example, and is chased by a polar bear), but the nephews decide all the toys are wonderful and just what children want. Santa is pleased. See also *List of Disney comics by Carl Barks Carl Barks (1901–2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and Disney comic book creator. The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames ''The Duck Man'' and ''The Good Duck Artist''. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyland Theme Park
Clifton Beach, also known as Sea View, is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan and is located on the Arabian Sea. It stretches from Karachi to Ormara (Balochistan). The beach is very popular in Pakistan. It is open 24/7 for the general public. Karachi is the most prominent coastal city of Pakistan and beach lovers here have many opportunities to visit different beaches bordering the Arabian Sea. Clifton Beach is purported to give the best value in leisure and recreational opportunities for fun seekers and beach lovers. In recent times, the area surrounding the beach has seen massive commercial activity as it is located in one of the most sought after localities in Karachi. The beach is now home to multiple local leisure activities including camel rides, buggy rides, horse rides, plastic plane flying among others. The Seaview Apartments across from the beach is a gated residential area which is rated among the top properties in the city. Other apartments and villas which can be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babes In Toyland (operetta)
''Babes in Toyland'' is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough, which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a musical extravaganza. Following the extraordinary success of their stage musical '' The Wizard of Oz'', which was produced in New York beginning in January 1903, producer Fred R. Hamlin and director Julian Mitchell hoped to create more family musicals.Bloom and Vlastnik, p. 29 MacDonough had helped Mitchell with revisions to the ''Oz'' libretto by L. Frank Baum. Mitchell and MacDonough persuaded Victor Herbert to join the production. ''Babes in Toyland'' features some of Herbert's most famous songs – among them "Toyland", "March of the Toys", "Go to Sleep, Slumber Deep", and "I Can't Do the Sum". The theme song "Toyland", and the most famous instrumental piece from the operetta, "March of the Toys", occasionally show up on Christmas compilations. The original production opened at the Chicago Grand Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noddy (character)
Noddy is an English character created by English children's author Enid Blyton. Noddy first appeared in a book series published between 1949 and 1963, illustrated by the Dutch artist Harmsen van der Beek from 1949 until his death in 1953, after which the work was continued by Peter Wienk. Television shows based on the character have run on British television since 1955. Noddy The first book explains Noddy's origins. He is made by a woodcarver in a toy store but runs away after the man begins to make a wooden lion, which scares Noddy. As he wanders through the woods naked, penniless, and homeless, he meets Big Ears, a friendly brownie. Big Ears decides that Noddy is a toy and takes him to live in Toyland. He generously provides Noddy with a set of clothing and a house. While Noddy is quite happy to be a toy, the citizens of Toyland are not sure that he actually is one. They put Noddy on trial and examine whether he is a toy or an ornament. Eventually, Noddy is declared a toy, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC in 1978 before closing in 2013. A series of acquisitions and expansions allowed Zellers to reach its peak in the 1990s, with 350 stores across the country in 1999. However, fierce competition by Walmart Canada and an inability to adjust to the increasingly volatile retailing industry resulted in Zellers losing significant ground in the 2000s. At the same time, HBC's new owner NRDC Equity Partners was focusing on bolstering and re-positioning Zellers' sister chain, The Bay, with an upscale and fashion-oriented direction, and saw Zellers as a detriment to the turnaround. In January 2011, HBC announced that it would sell the lease agreements for up to 220 Zellers stores to the US chain Target for $1.825 billion. In turn, Target announced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of Toys
The Land of Toys ( it, Paese dei balocchi) is a fictional location in the Italian novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) that is disguised as a haven of freedom and anarchy for boys and occasionally girls, but is eventually discovered to be far more sinister. Described as a "land of Cocagne", " Children's Literature Review. ''Encyclopedia.com''. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020. the size and nature of the location is unclear: the Disney adaptation depicts it as a large on an whereas the novel impl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
