Dolls with alterable facial features

A toy doll, comprising:

• a head including a face having an eye, a cheek, and a mouth opening;
• a torso coupled to the head;
• and
• a mechanism for altering the appearance of the face, the mechanism including:
• an input lever integral to the torso and configured to pivot about a first axis;
• a cheek-engagement lever coupled to an inside surface of the cheek, coupled to the input lever, and configured to pivot about a second axis so that at least a portion of the cheek moves, wherein the second axis is generally parallel to the first axis;
• an eye-positioning lever coupled to the eye, coupled to the input lever via the cheek-engagement lever, and configured to pivot about a third axis so that the eye appears to close, wherein the third axis is generally parallel to the first axis;
• a tongue member positioned behind the mouth opening, the tongue member coupled to the eye-positioning lever such that, when the doll is in a first orientation, insertion without rotation of an object through the mouth opening pivots the tongue member, which in turn pivots the eye-positioning lever about the third axis and, when the doll is in a second orientation different from the first orientation, insertion without rotation of an object through the mouth opening pivots the tongue member, which in turn does not pivot the eye-positioning lever about the third axis when the doll is in a second orientation and an object is inserted through the mouth opening;
• and
• a sound generator configured to output a first sound when the input lever is pivoted from a first position to a second position and further configured to output a second sound when the tongue member is translated;
• wherein, when the toy doll is generally in an upright orientation, pivoting the input lever in a first direction causes the eye-positioning lever to pivot in the first direction and further causes the cheek-engagement lever to pivot in a second direction opposite the first direction.