"Potter" puts model trains back on track
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Sales of model trains are picking up steam again thanks to deals linking them to the "Harry Potter" and "The Polar Express" movies, along with a new approach to marketing the old-fashioned toys.
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Lionel LLC, a maker of model trains for more than 100 years, has filed for bankruptcy protection after a US jury found the company used designs for toy locomotives stolen from a rival.
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For tourism chiefs eager to entice "set-jetters" to Britain, Harry Potter offers the ideal location vacation -- and the latest book and film look certain to stoke renewed Pottermania.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs Summergarden series reinvents itself every so often, but for now it has settled into a pattern that has worked well these last two summers.
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Is his mysterious three-wheeled cart a proto automobile? A remote-controlled robot? A rolling Renaissance computer? Follow the quest to rebuild Leonardo's 'impossible machine.' By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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There will be a brief respite from the February doldrums on Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Arts & entertainment: Edmund de Waal challenges the philosophy of potting as functionalist and ruralist to turn ceramics into art.
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Motorists nostalgic for the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.
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Although strikingly faithful in their visual adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s classic holiday tale, the makers of The Polar Express (* * Â½ out of four) have added some roller-coaster
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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U.S. toy makers may have trotted out a laughing Elmo, a life-sized miniature pony and a digital camera for 3-year-olds this year, but the new products may not be enough to pull the industry out of a slump.
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"Postcards From Buster," a childrenâs public television show that was pilloried by conservatives, returns, belatedly but unbowed, for a second season.
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Warner Bros. just can&#39;t catch a break when it comes to animation. You could forgive them for thinking that with Polar Express they had a sure fire winner - after all it combines a much-loved children&#39;s book with cutting edge technology and Tom Hanks.
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1. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling, art by Mary GrandPre (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
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A lot more than Harryâs physique has changed since the release of âHarry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stone.â
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The Washington Nationals canceled batting practice and players were allowed to show up at the ballpark later than usual because a chartered Amtrak train carrying the team home from New York derailed early Tuesday morning.
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There's still some smoke, but the clash between the country's two largest makers of toy trains is nearly over.