✨ Read this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: The concept of “little people” quickly attracted broader attention beyond rural Georgia. Babyland was even mentioned in the British Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as "the kind of crazy scheme that would appeal to Americans." However, as cynics might say, there is one born every minute, and the blockbuster commercial potential of this concept was discovered by Coleco Industries, a company known mainly for its electronic games such as the ColecoVision video game console. In 1982, the company licensed the dolls for mass release.…
