Most people play with dolls, figures and replicas as toys when they are young. Some dolls are simple stuffed animals with plastic heads, and others are action figures complete with body armor and weapons. Certain dolls are exquisite works of visual art and engineering.
L’Oiseleur (The Bird Trainer), a 4-ft-tall automaton doll, comes complete with sword, flute, pair of singing birds, and embroidered Renaissance-Era clothing. The expensive doll plays the flute, playing Marche des Rois by Georges Bizet. This amazing doll does not run on electricity or any motors but spring-driven cogs and gears.
The asking price for this most expensive doll is $6,250,000, yes 6.25 million US dollars. The price has to justify the 2,340 gilt or polished-steel parts and over 15,000 hours in a Swiss workshop that it took to create this extraordinary figure.
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This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen!!
oh my god! that looks like Michael Jackson!
I think I saw this walking down the street the other day
It reminded of my mom!!!!
That thing is the stuff of nightmares.
… creepiest… Michael Jackson… nightmares… all this for just $6.25M! Someone please find another planet to live on – this one’s just too f%#@ed up.
THAT THING WOULD BE SCARY IF I BOUGHT THAT!!!!TALK ABOUT NIGHTMARES!!!! : [
my grandma almost bought it!
You are missing the point.
This “Toy” was created to resemble human movements and was built using 1700′s technology. No computers or electricity are used, these machines all wind up.
Called an “Automaton”, wealthy people would have friends over and have their Automatons entertain their guests.
Some of these can write complicated music. Others can write letters and poems with a pen in their hand using very intricate fonts. All with no power tools and, by candle light in 1700′s. True craftsman.
The most modern robots of today are now capable of such precision.
The idea of the automobile, is not even 120 years old.
Please reconsider
omg wow. I would never buy tht.
i bought that doll!
Yap and scared your kid for life!
ewwwwwwwww tht doll stinks homme ducan is 10000000000 tyms better thn tht
That thing would make a great wife for me
Thank God that thing didn’t have legs!!
that does not look anything like micheal jackson it is so ugly
okay…. while it does look rather creepy, you gotta consider tht it is an amazing piece of craftsmanship right? i mean… our engineers would probaly have trouble recreating tht…. but it does lookk kinda creepy if you think about it from a artistical point of view
ooooooooh god O_o A barbie doll is better then that! and barbie dolls are so dam scary… Talk about nightmares…..