Jonathan and I were down at TBWA to have a chat about Playstation 3.    So by way of contrast to conversations about BluRay, real-time physics and HD, we popped into Pollocks Toy Museum to check out gameplay from the late 19th Century. A few years ago, Pollocks was threatened with closure, so it was good to see it thriving in its original location on Scala Street.
The least we could do was to give them a bit of a mention on the LOVE blog.

Pollocks is a rickety old rabbit warren of a museum which is bursting to the brim with toys, toy theatres, games, comics, dolls – and what the museum claims to be the oldest known teddy bear, Eric, who was born in 1906 and looks pretty well for his age.

Forget the spine-tingling intensity of Resistance Fall Of Man or the horror of Resident Evil – we haven’t seen anything quite as scary as a girls nursery full of dolls from the early 1900’s.   

Jonathan was convinced that one of them turned its head slightly, but I didn’t believe him. 

As is traditional, we brought back a momento for the office.  After much deliberation we chose Squirt Wee Boy (“pull down his shorts to make him pee!”).  Child-like, we know, but I guess that’s the point of Pollocks.

Posted by Dave Palmer