Toy Museum
Warehouse of over one hundred thousand toys, from tin robots to life-size film figures, amassed by one lifelong collector.
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This guide to the Toy Museum in Penang Island follows the collection of an engineer named Loh Lean Cheng, who bought a single Popeye doll in 1973 and, after a visit to the London Toy and Model Museum, spent the next four decades buying one shelf at a time until the toys outgrew every room he owned. You'll hear how the collection first lived inside a former nightclub at the Copthorne Orchid Hotel, disco lights swapped for glass cases of tin robots and dolls, before it outgrew even that space. Walk the aisles slowly and see how far the shelves have multiplied since that first impulse buy.
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