That year, STIKFAS came in second for " Most Fun and Innovative Toy " in a consumer's poll by Toyshop Magazine, a revolutionary achievement for a simple plastic toy to earn its place in a category dominated by high tech electronic toy items.
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Towards the end of the TV series'run, stories were serialized across only four days, with the Friday program dedicated to a separate story, told by Liz Harris, about toys which come to life in a toyshop when the owner was absent.
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He described the huge variety of merchandise, with stalls including " goldsmiths, toyshops, brasiers, turners, milliners, haberdashers, hatters, mercers, drapers, pewterers, china-warehouses, and in a word all trades that can be named in London ."
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There are many references to other literary works throughout the series . " Seventy-Seven Clocks " contains references to Gilbert and Sullivan throughout the narrative, while " The Victoria Vanishes " has similarities with " The Moving Toyshop " by Edmund Crispin.
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He also remarks ( of " The Moving Toyshop " ) that " It's more like Doctor Who than Doctor Who . " Christopher Fowler pays homage to " The Moving Toyshop " in " The Victoria Vanishes ", his sixth Bryant & May novel.
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He also remarks ( of " The Moving Toyshop " ) that " It's more like Doctor Who than Doctor Who . " Christopher Fowler pays homage to " The Moving Toyshop " in " The Victoria Vanishes ", his sixth Bryant & May novel.
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The Fonthill sale was the subject of William Hazlitt's scathing review of Beckford's taste for " idle rarities and curiosities or mechanical skill ", for fine bindings, " bijouterie " and highly finished paintings, " the quintessence and rectified spirit of " toyshop at Strawberry Hill ".
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On May 28, 2013, WBNS-TV announced that the 10.2 subchannel would begin carrying Antenna TV . WBNS'promotions for the network, tagged as " Ridiculously Retro ", showcase clips from " Flippo the Clown " and " Lucy's Toyshop ", hinting that old, local favorites could return to the airwaves.
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Banks then returned to Mabel Greer's Toyshop, and with the loss of Clive Bailey and the addition of organist / pianist Tony Kaye, they started to write new music together, adding to a repertoire already including two songs already written, " Beyond and Before " by Jon Anderson and Clive Bailey and then " Sweetness " by Anderson, Bailey and Chris Squire.
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Scottish crime writer Val McDermid called " The Moving Toyshop ", " " A classic crime novel with a surreal streak & It's a clever, energetic romp, written with wit ", while A . L . Kennedy described Crispin as, " One of the undiscovered treasures of British crime fiction : [ his ] storytelling is intelligent, humane, surprising and rattling good fun ."
