A new Christmas exhibit is now on display at the Vanishing Texana Museum in Jacksonville. The Nutcracker Exhibit features over 100 Nutcracker toy soldiers, a Christmas village, a Widow’s Mite ...

Check out video of featured dancer KJ Takahashi as he performs 'The Toy Soldier' in the New York City Ballet 2024 production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the David H. Koch Theater at ...

'With a little help from Clara, the Nutcracker and the tin soldiers win the battle and defeat the Mouse King and his army. The mice retreat and the Nutcracker is transformed from a wooden toy into ...

She dreams that her nutcracker toy soldier has comes to life as a real boy. He saves Clara from a very villainous rat creature. See here dancing mice, rats, a platoon of toy soldiers, ...

Functional toy soldier nutcrackers are still being made (the best ones in Germany, she noted), and they just so happen to be on sale at the museum gift shop.

That holds true for Kreutzkampf, who always liked the toy soldiers and ballet's story of a little girl's Christmas gift of a nutcracker doll. Kreutzkampf started collecting the decorative ...