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Powerplay: Toys As Popular Culture. Don Fleming. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1996. 225 pages. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paperback. In Powerplay: Toys as Popular Culture, Dan Fleming addresses two key questions: (1) How do children's toys function as objects? and (2) What do they reveal about culture and vice versa? Beginning his analysis with fond memories of his own childhood in Great Britain, Fleming makes a distinction between traditional toys, such as tin toys, and media-related toys, and he focuses on the latter. In particular, he is...