Here's some international toy news that for once has nothing to do with the Japanese.

I still like Roseanne's idea of having new Barbies like Alcoholic Barbie. Also, this article made me kind of curious: what are cartoons like in other countries? I'm fairly well versed in American and Japanese animation, but I would be interested in seeing what others put out.

What do you call Iranian cartoons, anyway? Iranimation? Regardless, I don't see us going to any Iranian animation cons anytime soon.