Talk:Nutcracker Dragon/@comment-26553223-20151220020243/@comment-25462635-20151221141440

It's an old-fashioned thingy, and originates from Germany (Erzgebirge, where all the popular wooden Christmas figurines seem to have their home). Maybe not your generation any more, or they really didn't make it to the southern hemisphere. :) And also Wikipedia tells me that the Nutcracker ballet is based on a story from E.T.A. Hoffmann, which tells the story of a girl who dreams that the wooden nutcracker she got for Christmas becomes alive and fights an army of mice, and afterwards turns into the prince of candyland, where they live together happily ever after, or something like that. :)