Whimsical, fantastical matrioshke

Doublefine's sweet matrioshkes are dead lovely -- and backordered. I grew up in a house full of these things, since they were the standard gift every time my grandparents went to Leningrad to see the family, or brought the family over for a visit, and I was delighted to discover that my daughter finds them as fascinating as I do -- especially as there are so many more variations on the designs available today.

Stacking Dolls from Stacking

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http://www.kylebean.co.uk/portfolio/#mobileevolution/7 and http://www.kylebean.co.uk/portfolio/#mobileevolution/ from http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/27/mobile-evolution-nesting-cell-phones-by-kyle-bean/ for cellular/cell phones. ;)
pidg

Nice. I have a set of communist Presidents ones.

BTW, the singular is ‘matrioshka’ and plural is ‘matrioshki’.
boxlightbox

Did you already see the Golden Girls nesting dolls, from Ginger Williams?
http://jezebel.com/5615747/omg-golden-girls-nesting-dolls

They’re marrrvelous.
DJBudSonic

My daughter loves these, too. Our favorite is smaller and smaller chickens, then a baby chick, then an egg.
Rich Keller

These dolls look like they could be the crewmembers for the airships and submarines from yesterday’s post.
Anonymous

Many years ago, while traveling, I came across a set of five pre-made blank matryoshka dolls, which I brought back as a souvenir for one of my housemates. She used them to make nesting-doll portraits of the five of us who shared the house, a project which turned out really cool. I should check if she still has them.

Meanwhile, the memory of that has inspired me to do a quick internet search and Google shows several sources if you search on “blank matryoshka.” Anyone liking the look of the dolls in the write-up but looking to do their own take on the subject might like to know that ready-made dolls are easily available..
narddogz

Those are cool… not quite as creepy as the ones that were on Sesame Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQV45Wichw

For some reason, that video used to scare me.

Now it just seems cute.
Fang Xianfu

These are great, but you missed out the best part: that they’re a tie-in promotion for a WHOLE FRICKING GAME that Doublefine is making about them! Presumably it’ll be like all other Doublefine games – beautiful, flawed genius, made by a team trying their hardest to distil awesome and ending up overdoing it a bit. Sort of like Tactical Nuclear Penguin, for the beer drinkers.
Anonymous

nice matrioshka – reminded me of the set i bought for a friend, a couple of years ago, from bulgaria;

http://flic.kr/p/4Jbdc7

i called them the ‘axis of evil’ matrioshka (although maybe not strictly politically correct)
Anonymous

For some reason, I read this as Marioshke, then I thought to myself, “I wonder if anyone has made Mario nesting dolls?”

A quick google search revealed the answer…

http://9gag.com/gag/30287/
Stone

My friend in Oz makes the most clever matroishka dolls:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/bobobabushka