Techno-toys.Entertainment Earth, a North Hollywood toy manufacturer, is marketing eerily lifelike robotic dolls that talk, walk, punch, sweat, sleep, swing and scream, among other things. Technologically enlivened likenesses of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, pasha of EgyptMuhammad Ali, 1769?–1849, pasha of Egypt after 1805. He was a common soldier who rose to leadership by his military skill and political acumen. In 1799 he commanded a Turkish army in an unsuccessful attempt to drive Napoleon from Egypt. As pasha he was virtually independent of his nominal overlord, the Ottoman sultan., Babe Ruth, Donald Trump and movie characters such as Darth Vader, Spiderman, the Blues Brothers and characters from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films are for sale on their Web site, entertainmentearth.com.The toymaker also caters to an older demographic with dolls fashioned in the likeness of Elvis and Sigmund Freud. Staff reporter Dan Cox can be reached at dcox@labusinessjournal.com or at (323) 549-5225, ext. 230. |
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