Doll-A-Day 2023 #50: Happy Meal Stacie

   Well. we're up to 50 at least. I'll catch up those other 6 some day. But we'll get to the doll in a minute.

  Tomorrow is a doll show, and for the first time in years, Emma is going with me! I'm pretty excited to have this day out with her. But I have to be very careful about buying anything, because I can't get anything big and keep it at Emma's. I am taking up enough space with stuff already. But I think we'll have fun.

  Now for today's doll. She's this little girl.

 She's Happy Meal Stacie.

Not to be confused with Barbie's friend Stacey, from the 60's. Stacie is 'Barbie's littlest sister', or at least, she was when she premiered. She came in once they had aged Skipper out of childhood and into her teenage years. They needed another little one, the age Skipper was when she first came about, (about 10 years old or so.) Stacie premiered in 1992, although the head sculpt was first used  in 1990 in a Barbie wedding set, for a doll named Kelly. This was before the baby sister Kelly came out, and took over the name. 

  Now here's a question. Why does Mattel think they have to keep making Barbie's siblings grow up? They're dolls! They could stay kids forever! For Heaven's sake, they haven't made Barbie be an old lady. Why do her siblings have to get older? Then they just have to come up with another sibling to be the little one. They got rid of Tutti and Todd, then they made Skipper grow into a teenager. That made them have to come up with Stacie. They had Kelly, who was originally supposed to be Barbie's baby sister. She came with a crib and a bottle and diaper. Then they made her school age, and had to come up with Krissy. Krissy eventually disappeared. She must have gone off to college.

  Anyway, back to Stacie. Happy Meal Stacie was one of a line of Happy Meal dolls that also included Happy Meal Todd, Happy Meal Whitney, and Happy Meal Janet. You can see Emma's Happy Meal Janet in THIS POST.

  Happy Meal Stacie came with the same old Barbie brush, in red, a GIMONGOUS Happy Meal box that came up to her waist, and a tray of Happy Meal food, none of which could be taken off the tray and played with. FAIL!

Gimongous Happy Meal box: 

Back when McDonald's still used Grimace...

...and the Hamburglar and Birdie.

  There was a reason for the giant Happy Meal box, I found out. When I was taking the pictures, I found a pair of play Barbie earrings in the box. I had no idea how they got there, and thought they must have come from something else. As I was doing this post I found out that the Happy Meal dolls came with 'surprise jewelry'. So guess where the earrings came from? Ha ha! 

 

 The little tray of Happy Meal food includes French fries, a hamburger, a drink, and a smaller, much more in scale Happy Meal box, (that would no way fit all that food inside.).

The tray has a thingy on the bottom so Stacie can hold it.

It clamps on her arm.

  I guess it does look like she's carrying it on the palm of her hand...

...as long s you don't look underneath.

That looks a little stupid.

  Stacie is wearing a McDonald's shirt, which closes in back with a snap.

Her shorts are stretchy polka dot ones.

She has blue socks and red high tops.

Her hat has a hole in the top.

She also has red earrings.

And of course, being Barbie's sister, she has mountainous hair.

The nice thing about Stacie was, she could tilt her head, as well as turn it.

 

She can even tilt her head down a little.

That makes for some cute posing, even if she has minimal articulation, just shoulders, hips, and neck, along with click bend knees that don't bend very far.

With those big shoes she can be balanced in such a way that she can stand on her own.

But not without them.

  That's today's doll. Tomorrow we just might see something from the doll show.