Where To Have A Toy Doll Repaired Near Me

22 November 2022
Tips & Tricks, Toys

Don't just throw abroad broken toys. Instead, get to a Repair Café in your neighbourhood!

Many people don't like to throw toys away. Children (and parents) are oft attached to specific dolls or cuddly toys, a battery-operated railroad train or a remote-controlled car. Fortunately, in many cases, toys can be repaired very well. Bring your broken things to a Repair Café and notice out for yourself!

We successfully repair electric and electronic toys in seventy per cent of cases, according to our RepairMonitor, an online organization where repairers keep track of what they fix. For non-electric toys, the number is equally high equally 76 per cent. So, it's a shame to throw cleaved toys away.

Repairing electric toys

The trouble with electric toys is frequently the bombardment that'southward no longer connected or a rusty circuit. "Nosotros've seen every possible thing that has a bombardment. There's oftentimes not much wrong with information technology", explains Wijnand Klaver of Repair Café Hilversum (the Netherlands). "Usually, it'due south just a loose wire. Generally, you can go these things working over again. Sometimes, you lot must repair information technology in such a way that yous tin see it'due south been repaired, but that doesn't matter at all."

Repairing dolls and cuddly toys

Dolls and cuddly toys are ofttimes missing stuffing from the trunk or an eye. Ofttimes, there's also a loose seam or a missing leg. "That'southward a chip more manual work, every bit you don't ordinarily use a sewing automobile to set it", says Marion van den Akker of Repair Café Oostzaan (Netherlands).

Repairing toys is ofttimes gratifying work, co-ordinate to both Wijnand and Marion. "It can mean a lot to someone," says Wijnand. "At one point, an older adult female came to the states. She'd brought a doll from 1950 that she had played with herself. The doll had been cleaved for thirty years, but nosotros managed to put it dorsum together with a lot of fiddling and polishing. She was delighted when we repaired the doll because now her grandchild could play with it."

Learning to make repairs together

Marion: "You can't always estimate what something ways to someone. Sometimes, y'all exercise a minimal thing, and people are completely overwhelmed by it. For example, for someone, nosotros once fixed a cuddly toy missing, I recollect, its arm or leg. And the lady was then excited that yous almost thought: 'how come?' While nosotros hadn't done all that much. That's something I remember."

Marion and Wijnand similar to repair, just they relish it even more when people actively call back and help. "The nicer repairs are when people come with things they've already started doing themselves", says Wijnand. "I think it's imperative to include people in the repair process. So much noesis gets lost; we have to spotter out for that."

"That's our policy anyhow", Marion explains. "We don't like to bring you lot in, go out you and come back once again. The thought is that you come and sit with the states, with a cup of coffee or tea. We want the repair to be a social action and to make people aware that things tin be repaired."

Come to the Repair Café!

Do yous have any toys lying around that you lot don't want to throw away? Detect a Repair Café in your neighbourhood and take it with you. Chances are, we tin repair it. See you presently!