Wobbling Bobble Head Dolls - Great Collectibles

Ever imagined collecting overflowing bobble head dolls and simultaneously making each doll nod its head? Wouldn't that be really amusing especially for children and the one collecting it?Bobble head dolls are called such name because they are the type of dolls that always nod or wobble. They are the kind of collectible dolls wherein the heads are often sized bigger than its body and are not joined by any solid connection, but by a spring in which tapping the bobble head doll's top gently would immediately cause its head to bobble. These lovable figures amid the bouncing heads are just great pieces of collectibles, really!The First Bobble Head in the 1960sThe first bobble heads became popular during the 1960s when Major League Baseball started producing a succession of papier-mƒch‚ bobble head dolls, designating one for each team, all with the same angelic face. Since then bobble heads became a sports phenomenon especially when they used them in the World Series that same year. They produced personalized bobble head dolls for every baseball player participating. It was ten years after, that these papier-mƒch‚ bobble heads renovated into ceramic bobble head dolls, and became widely used for sports and cartoon characters. Bobble heads have been popularly sold at baseball and football games as nice mementos as people watched games. But the dolls had its wobbling in terms of popularity. It was only revived back to the baseball fields when the San Francisco Giants presented a bobble head giveaway to Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays, during a home game in 1999.The bobble head dolls, known as "nodders" are available in different shapes and sizes. Some are 6-inches tall made of ceramic material, while some are 2-inch tall made of plastic. You would be surprised to know that there are even real life-size bobble heads available for everyone. But whatever the size it takes, the bobble heads are always an exact duplication of its original, only that the bobble head will then look like a caricature having a head of about three to four times bigger than the normal head size.The only downside you will notice in collecting these bobble head dolls is that it empowers you so much and therefore you might just not be able to get hold of yourself from buying and collecting all the bobble head dolls you come across with! Once you get the bobble heads fascination, it might just not stop!
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