Rigid postures. A smooth surface. Just a touch of expression. Usually the colours are exaggerated but, despite that, we enjoyed playing with these toy figures made of plastic. We got a lot of childish pleasure from them. The fantasy, our overflowing aliveness – they easily compensated for the toy figure’s shortcomings, for it being just an artificial truth. But what happens when this lack, this crude artificiality takes over in real life? Through a stereotyped role model in the media or plastic surgery, whose tailored faces remind us of the undifferentiated physiognomy of the plastic countenances. What happens is Anna Peisl’s series of photographs, ‘Scotty, Madonna and the others’. She changes plastic figures into icons of artificiality; emphasises their symbolic character by means of the white space through which they seem to float, with light, whose source we cannot really guess. It is the return of toys in a strange dream whose impact is based on a contradiction. The effect depends on what the plastic figures mean to us personally. And what they can mean today.