Doll-A-Day 2023 #142: Dora Dora Dora the Explorer(s)

    Today's doll is three: three versions of Dora the Explorer.

    The first is Dress Up Adventure Dora.

This doll was produced in 2003.  She's all vinyl, with jointing at the neck, shoulders, and hips. She has rooted hair, and removable clothes. There were six other outfits made for this doll too. They were sold separately. This doll came with a Backpack just her size, a dog, a hairbrush, and a book called, "My Special Adventure".

 

The hair barrettes are Dora's, but I'm not sure if they came with this doll, or one of the other outfits.

  She's 15 inches tall.

  She originally also had a bracelet.  

The next doll is Dora Knows Your Name, from 2004. 

She's supposedly rare. She's a pretty technical kid. Mattel describes her this way,  

  

"Dora Knows Your Name is a 12” cuddly plush character that incorporates your child’s name and favorite things into their friendly character phrases and songs. Plush comes with a USB cable, as well as a CD Rom for Mom to download the child’s name and favorite things into the doll. The plush also has an internal clock so that the content of what it says will change depending on the time of day (morning, noon and night). The character will sing several songs and tell stories that incorporate the personalized information downloaded into the plush."

  Sounds pretty cool. This girl doesn't have any of her stuff though, so who knows what she'd say if she had batteries in her!

  The final doll is Storybook Adventures Little Red Riding Hood Dora. 

She was made in 2005. She came with a hairbrush, but no basket of goodies for her Abuela. Gee Dora! 

  There were two other storybook Dora dolls produced, Rapunzel and Cinderella. They are 6 inches tall, vinyl dolls with removable clothing, painted on shoes and stockings, and the usual five points of articulation. 

  When Ivy was little she loved Dora. She was even Dora for Halloween one year. (This is before she specialized in being Vera Ellen for three years in a row.) Luckily I had saved Emma's old clothes to hand down to Ivy, because she had a hot pink t-shirt, a pair of orange shorts, and Ivy had a pair of yellow socks with fluted tops, and a pair of white tennis shoes. All she needed was brown hair and a Dora bracelet. The bracelet was easily obtained in a pack of birthday party favours. The wig was a little more difficult. I ended up making her a 'wig' from brown felt. It was the right shape at least, as Dora had that huge block of hair.

  Anyway, these dolls weren't Ivy's. They just ended up at our house in some Ebay stuff. They were rescued from The Room of Water, and are fine now. But they need to go away. Sorry Dora.

  That's today group of dolls. See you again tomorrow.