Advertised as "adult dolls" on sites including EBay and Amazon, they are manufactured in the Far East and sent to Britain via courier, fast parcel and other delivery services. Hazel Stewart ...

The collector said Barbies from the 1980s were her favourite She began collecting in earnest in the early 2000s, and her eBay habit "snowballed" after seeing dolls from "her era" - the 1980s.

Indeed, one of the original Troll Dolls (complete with a shock of orange hair and a wrinkly, Klingon-esque forehead) was recently priced up at £10,000 on eBay. Say that again with us, yeah?