This doll was made by Trendmasters in 1996.
You'll have to excuse the dust, but she has been sitting high atop a bookshelf on our landing for over 20 years.
I never opened her because I like her displayed in her box. Her box has nice graphics, and those great onion domes.
Trendmasters made several Jeannie fashion doll sized dolls around this time, as well as a few miniature Polly Pocket sized bottle locket play sets. You can see a commercial for the playsets HERE. This doll is supposed to represent Jeannie from the first episode of the series.
But in the first episode Jeannie had a different outfit. Instead of the two piece top with the velvet vest, she had a one piece velvet top.
Other dolls in the Trendmasters Jeannie line included Jeannie in a groovy 60's dress from an episode called, "The Mod Party",Jeannie in her wedding dress, from the episode,"How to Marry an Astronaut", and even Jeannie's sister, in her green outfit, from the episode, "My Sister the Homewrecker".
Yesterday we talked about how accurate the outfit is on the Barbie Jeannie. This one is very good too, except for the giant gold necklace they put on Jeannie.
She has pink high heels.
It's hard to see in the box,but she does have the little hat,and her hair is braided below it.
Like yesterday's girl, this Jeannie also comes with her bottle. (I forgot to photograph yesterday's girl's bottle, so I have gone back and added a picture.) In this case,it's actually a hair brush!
She also comes with a small bottle on a necklace.
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| It looks more like a bottle of shampoo than Jeannie's bottle,so I don't know why they did that. |
A bit of trivia: Jeannie's bottle was made from a specially painted Jim Beam decanter! it was made from a 1964 Jim Beam Christmas edition bourbon decanter which belonged to director Gene Nelson.
Jim Beam made a few similarly styled coloured glass decanters with handles. But the Jeannie bottle has no handle.Since the first season of the show was filmed in black and white, the first bottle used,which came smokey gray coloured, was painted only with gold paint. When the show went to colour in the second season, the new bottles were painted with pink and purple. There were at least 12 bottles used during the run of the show, although some were broken in use. Barbara Eden, who played Jeannie owns the last bottle, used in filming the last scene on the final day of shooting in 1970.
In 2018 Target offered a Mego I Dream of Jeannie set that included 8 inch Jeannie and Major Nelson dolls. It seems to still be available from Target online. The dolls are pretty ugly and look nothing like Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, (who played Major Nelson in the "I Dream of Jeannie series.). Madame Alexander made a Jeannie and Major Nelson set in 1996,using their standard 8 inch dolls. There has never been a fashion doll sized Major Nelson doll, but some people have turned the12 inch 2013 Figures Toy Co. J.R. Ewing doll into a Major Nelson. There are two versions of the character, wearing different suits, but both made in the likeness of Larry Hagman.
Tomorrow we'll look at another doll. See you then.
Another interesting doll although it's a shame about the facepaint, but at least you can disguise it with the netting over her face! :D
ReplyDeleteTrue. You can barely see it anyway!
DeleteI had no idea there were so many Jeannies.
ReplyDeleteI loved Larry Hagman in both roles.
I did not know that there were Alexander Jeannie dolls. I will have to look for one.
Doll origins are interesting. Barbie spun off from a floozy doll and Jeannie came out of an alcohol bottle. Shocking (laugh)!
Ha! That's one way of looking at it I guess!
DeleteThe ALexander dolls were the little child-looking 8 inch dolls. I always hate that they all look the same, and the guys look just like the girls. I won't even touch the Beatles set,which is not like me at all!