ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the myriad of different representations of travelling toys across a broad range of media, including books, film and social media. Firstly, an analysis of photo-sharing website Flickr, one of the more popular spaces where travelling toy mascots are evident, will be presented to exemplify one of the most popular manifestations of sharing images of travelling toys. Secondly, the results of a short survey of Flickr members will be incorporated into discussion of themes that emerged from analysis of photos on Flickr. In his schema for the mobilities paradigm, Urry identifies five interdependent' mobilities, including: corporeal travel, the physical movement of objects, virtual travel, communicative travel and imaginative travel. In addition, the division of imaginative travel into two categories provides only a limited scope for considering the pervasive and powerful nature of imaginative mobilities.
