Troll doll
Muñeco Troll
- Date
- 1956-1959 · confidence medium
- Place
- Gjøl, North Jutland, Denmark
- Credited to
- Thomas Dam
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Plastic doll with tousled hair inspired by trolls from Scandinavian folklore, carved by Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam, which became a US toy craze.
What it led to
- One of the biggest 1960s toy crazes in the United States
- Numerous copies and imitations by other manufacturers
- Periodic revivals of the fad in the 1970s and 1990s