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unusual facts about teapot



Bluebird Toys

Torquil Norman started Bluebird Toys in 1980, his first product being the now famous Big Yellow Teapot House.

Changing Rooms

In one episode, a Linda Barker room was being built to accommodate a large collection of teapots.

I'm a Little Teapot

"I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my... handle... Gosh, I'm a sugar bowl." (From a character-based physical gag used in the original Saturday Night Live cast skit "Gidget Goes to Shock Therapy").

Ramaa Mosley

New York-based distribution company Magnolia Picture inked a deal for The Brass Teapot, which Mosley shot in Upstate New York.

Stepan Zorian

In Garin, pretending to be a teapot salesman because ARF party members were banned in Turkey, he established student unions.

Torquil Norman

After working as an investment banker in the United States for eleven years, he returned to the UK in the 1960s and subsequently entered the toymaking industry, first as chief executive of Berwick Timpo toy company from 1973, and then in 1980 founding Bluebird Toys, makers of the Big Yellow Teapot House, the Big Red Fun Bus, and the very successful Polly Pocket line of dolls.


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