A bobblehead doll of Chicken Little.

A Curtis Martin bobblehead doll.

A bobblehead doll, also known as a bobbing head doll, nodder, or wobbler, is a type of collectible doll. Its head is often oversized compared to its body. Instead of a solid connection, its head is connected to the body by a spring in such a way that a light tap will cause the head to bobble, hence the name. Image File history File links Bobblehead_doll. ... Image File history File links Bobblehead_doll. ... Chicken Little (2005) is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) animated film and the forty-fifth animated feature made and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 4, 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 411 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1524 × 2223 pixel, file size: 303 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bobblehead doll Metadata This file contains... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 411 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1524 × 2223 pixel, file size: 303 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bobblehead doll Metadata This file contains... Curtis Martin (born May 1, 1973 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), is an American football running back, an alumnus of Taylor Allderdice High School and the University of Pittsburgh, and currently plays for the NFLs New York Jets. ... A collectible (or collectable) is typically a manufactured item designed for people to collect. ... Look up doll in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bobble could refer to a number of things: It could be a slightly whimsical nodding motion of the head. ...

Although bobblehead dolls have been made with a wide variety of figures such as vampiric cereal pitchman Count Chocula, beat generation author Jack Kerouac, and Nobel-prize-winning geneticist James D. Watson, they are most associated with athletes, and baseball players in particular. Bobblehead dolls are sometimes given out to ticket buyers at sporting events as a promotion. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. ... James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic...

The earliest known reference to a bobblehead is thought to be in Nikolai Gogol's 1842 short story The Overcoat, in which the main character's neck was described as "like the necks of plaster cats which wag their heads". The modern bobblehead first appeared in the 1950s. By 1960, Major League Baseball had gotten in on the action and produced a series of papier-mache bobblehead dolls, one for each team, all with the same cherubic face. The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays, still all with the same face. Over the next decade, after a switch in materials from paper-mache to ceramic, bobbleheads would be produced for other sports, as well as cartoon characters. One of the most famous bobbleheads of all time also hails from this era: The Beatles bobblehead set, which is a valuable collectible today. By the mid-1970s, though, the bobblehead craze was in the process of winding down. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: ; IPA: ; Ukrainian: ) (April 1, 1809 — March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Overcoat is the title of a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other events named World Series, see World Series (disambiguation). ... Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. ... Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. ... Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruths 34-year-old single-season home run record in 1961 on the last day of the season. ... Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...

It would take nearly two decades before bobbleheads returned to prominence. Although older bobbleheads like the baseball teams and The Beatles were sought after by collectors during this period, new bobblehead dolls were few and far between. What finally prompted their resurgence was cheaper manufacturing processes, and the main bobblehead material switched once again, this time from ceramic to plastic. It was now possible to make bobbleheads in the very limited numbers necessary for them to be viable collectibles. The first baseball team to offer a bobblehead giveaway was the San Francisco Giants, which distributed 35,000 Willie Mays head nodders at a 1999 game. The variety of bobbleheads on the market rose exponentially to include even relatively obscure popular culture figures and notable people. The new millennium would bring a new type of bobblehead toy, the mini-bobblehead, standing just two or three inches tall and used for cereal prizes and such. Most recently, a developer managed to construct an electronic no-moving-parts bobblehead using the accelerometer of Apple's iPhone. Major league affiliations National League (1883–present) West Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers NY, NY, 3, 4, 11, 24, 27, 30, 36, 42, 44 Name San Francisco Giants (1958–present) New York Giants (1885–1957) New York Gothams (1883–1885) Other nicknames Jints, Gigantes, G-Men Ballpark AT... A depiction of an accelerometer designed at Sandia National Laboratories. ... The correct title of this article is . ...

Bobblehead dolls in culture

• The UK car insurance company "Churchill" uses a bobblehead of a Bulldog as its mascot.
• In the Firefly episode "Trash", the characters discuss a shipment of bobblehead geisha dolls they smuggled and sold.
• In 2003, as a promotional stunt, cable network GSN unveiled the "Chucklehead", an 11-foot-tall, 900-pound bobblehead statue of game show host Chuck Woolery.
• A George Bush & John Kerry bobblehead give-away involving 2500 Minor League baseball fans (at 7 stadiums) accurately predicted the United States presidential election, 2004.
• Child rapper Lil Romeo's album Romeoland includes a song called "Bobblehead". The lyrics compare the act of dancing to the motion of a bobblehead, with the chorus: "...take it to the floor and act like a fool / shake it, shake it, shake it like a bobblehead..."
• In The Office episode "Valentine's Day", Dwight Schrute receives a personalized bobblehead of himself. He also has a small collection of other bobbleheads on his desk. The Dwight Bobblehead is available for sale through NBC's website. The video game based on the sitcom will feature all of the characters as bobbleheads.
• The Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" had an alternate universe where everyone appears as bobbleheaded versions of themselves.
• In 2006, Boston College commissioned Boxwood Brands - www.boxwoodbrands.com Bobbleheads to create a custom bobblehead of their Boston College Superfan
• The law journal The Green Bag created bobblehead dolls of certain U.S. Supreme Court justices, including Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, and John Paul Stevens. link
• In Prison Break episode "Scan", fugitive Fernando Sucre steals an automobile fitted with a bobblehead of Mother Mary that cryptically appeared to nod and shake her head whenever Sucre devised a desperate idea to escape recapture.
• In Scrubs episode "My Way Home", Turk tries to make Dr. Bob Kelso choose him for making a heart transplant, by giving him a personalized bobblehead of himself.
• In the Boston Legal episode "Duck and Cover", Denny Crane (William Shatner) is seen toying with a bobblehead of himself standing on an opened law book with a gavel lying at his feet. Denny's bobblehead features a voice chip, which plays a clip of Crane delivering his trademark line, "Denny Crane!". A commercial replica of this prop, with the words "Boston Legal" on the law book base, is available through ABC's website. Like the bobblehead shown on the series, this one also features the voice Shatner proclaiming "Denny Crane".
• In 2003, TNA Wrestling released a bobblehead of D'Lo Brown. A signature mannerism of the professional wrestler was to quickly shake his head side to side like a bobblehead.
• In 2007, USnews contract hd designcenter, llc to create a set of political bobblehead dolls. These dolls are being used on usnews.com and throughout the political forfront. They can be seen at Political Wobbles where orders for a limited time are being accepted.

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Bibliography

Hunter, Tim - Bobbing Head Dolls: 1960-2000 (Krause Publications, 2000)

See Also

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External Links

• thebobbleboard.com- Online community established in 2000 for collectors to buy, sell, and trade bobbleheads and share information.
• bobbleheadz.com- Online photo gallery of sports related giveaway and retail bobblehead dolls.
• Jewish Currents magazine- Bobblehead doll of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
• FadToys- Largest online collection of bobbleheads.
• HD Design Center (webobble.com) - Custom and personalized bobble head dolls made to look like you from your photo. The leader of bobbles.
• Political Bobblehead 2008 As seen on usnews.com, the official 2008 political bobbleheads