NEW YORK (AP) — It’s all in the name. Bobble. Head.
\n\nIt’s what the tiny collectible figurines with the spring-laden oversize heads are known for: Give them a tap and watch their tops go, gyrating up and down or side to side. And any head can bobble – entertainers, athletes, politicians, animals, fictional characters, even your own if you get one personalized.
\n\nKitschy, kind of funny, kind of clever, ubiquitous as giveaways at places like baseball games, who doesn’t love a bobblehead? America most definitely does.
\n\n“I think they’re the ultimate Americana, sort of pop-culture icon,” says Phil Sklar, a bobblehead figurine aficionado who has parlayed that interest into founding the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin, site offers visitors a chance to gawk at a vast array of the figurines as well as learn more about their history, and offers bobbleheads for sale. (Also very American? Spaces that celebrate highly specific interests.)
\n\nA promotional bobblehead showing Willie Mays is displayed during the San Francisco Giants baseball media open house in San Francisco, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
\n\nThe dolls aren’t an American invention. Sklar says there were head-nodding statues in China at least…
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