Another Goodwill Haul: Vintage Tammy,G.I Joe and more

  Before we start,I have to welcome our newest follower,Linda. Welcome Linda! Linda, formerly of What Happens in the Doll Room, has a couple of new blogs, Darkroom Dolls, where she posts her doll photography, and  The Old Darkroom, where she posts cool old photographs. Plus, I think I figured out who the follower is that I missed a while back. If I'm not mistaken, it's Milena. Welcome Milena! (If I've welcomed you before, just ignore me!) Milena has a blog called MINIMAGINE, where you can see the great furniture and room boxes Milena has created and sells.
  I have found a few vintage dolls this summer, including a Tammy, but I made quite a haul of vintage and newer dolls at Goodwill a week or so ago.

All these dolls were $1 or $2.

Another Tammy! And she's a red head!

It took me a while to figure out if this G.I. Joe was old or one of the newer repros.

They redid this exact 'figure', (Since he's a guy's 'doll'...) when Fuzz was little, and he's 20 now.

His feet are a different shade than his body. They almost look like they've been replaced, but I'm pretty sure all these were dumped from the same load,and as somebody's old play dolls, that's unlikely.

I researched him, and he seems to be one of the old guys. From what I found when I researched it, the older ones started out saying Patent Pending on their right 'cheek'. Then it became like this guy's, with the patent number.

The repros look almost the same, except they actually say 'reproduction on the left 'cheek'.
  Fuzzy has a red head, just like my childhood G.I. Joe.

My childhood Joe, who was called John, in a typical pose.I never could keep him straightened out. Even his wife Midge can't believe it. By the way, he did originally have the Joe scar on his face, but my sister removed the scars from our Joes to make them  more aesthetically pleasing...

This guy looks more like my sister's brown haired Joe, except this guy is a 'hard head', and hers was a 'soft head',meaning this guy's head is rock hard, where as her Joe's head was soft and hollow,just like her first husband's.

  I don't know who the littlest guy is,because he has no markings at all.He's made very like a Mego, but with slightly different jointing. The larger of the two little guys is a Mego though.

Mego guy even has his shoes! But what's the deal with those shorts?

Megos are super jointy and poseable. I'm pretty sure he's Action Jackson. He kind of looks like the Planet of the Apes astronaut, which would be great, because I need him.Unfortunately, I think his hair is too dark and his side burns are too long for him to be the POTA astronaut.
The large girl is a BFC Ink Kaitlyn.

She's the more jointy one too. I need to weed out all my extra BFC Ink dolls and get rid of them. This girl may be the Kaitlyn that stays if I can get that ink mark off her head. I have heard Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is great for removing marks like that, but I haven't had much luck with it. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong.
  The smaller newish girl is a Forever Best Friends doll.

I love the faces on these dolls. They were made by MGA, the company that makes Bratz and Moxie Girlz. Their clothing is very similar to those lines. In fact, I could do with more shirts for them that aren't 'belly shirts', as my girls always call them.)The kind that are so short your belly hangs out.)

I think she's Brianee. She's the kind with jointed hands and hers are missing. That's ok, because she at least hasn't had a hair cut, and I have some dolls from this line with hair cuts that have their hands. I can always switch the hands to this one. That's another line of dolls that I need to sort out my extras on and get them out of here.
  To update a recent post, my Barbie Dream Kitchen and Dinette has sold. That will help a bit when we come back from England and have bills to pay, even if I am sorry to see that kitchen step ladder and Corning Ware go!

Doll-A-Day 275: Li'l Penny and What I Scored at the Doll Show

  First, welcome to our new follower Jawn Pickles. Thanks for joining us!
  Well, this was a disappointing doll show for me. I had money to spend, and found almost nothing I really really wanted, and very little of that could I afford anyway.

This is only part of the room. People griped for years about the dim lighting in this place: people walked around with flashlights so they could see what they were thinking about buying. The spring show this year was the first show with the new lighting that the owners of the building spent tens of thousands of dollars on. Now they tell us that this is the last show here, as the building has been sold to the nearby shopping...TOWN, and is to be torn down to make way for a full shopping city.

The glass case on the right is mine, complete with my sparkly skull with the flashing light up eyes.I made the tiny dolls and furniture inside the case.

I ended up only buying a long haired Pepper doll for $2 from my friend Karen, (You may remember Karen sold me the small vintage Asian doll from Doll-A-Day 247, and the Karito Kids Ling from Doll-A-Day 221.),a vintage snowsuit for 14" dolls, and a miniature fishing creel.(And my dolls don't even fish! They're all vegetarians!) Oh, and today's doll.We'll get to him in a minute.

   I made a few purchases that I will end up selling, but those were the only things I bought for me. I bought these two girls to help me finance some dolls on my wish list.

I already have several BFC Addisons, (On the right.), and this outfit.

They're both just about mint.
I also bought this BFC Ink Yuko doll.

She was a super good price, but I really don't need one in a box, since I will just open her box anyway and they are usually so expensive.I have been wanting one, and this one is the extra articulated one, but I'm not sure I like that lower lid eye liner.

Anyway, I also really want BFC Gianna, so maybe I'll pay for her with Yuko...if I can part with her!
  As for today's doll, he's Lil Penny!

"Yo Tyra!  I saved you a seat! Just park it right here next to me baby!"

  I LOVE Lil Penny! He was the spokes 'person' in the ads for Nike in the mid 1990's.

I used to annoy my kids a lot by singing his song from the commercial. "I'm shootin' basketball..."

Watch my favourite Lil Penny commercial HERE
He was the 'mini me' for basketball player Penny Hardaway...

Big Penny and Lil Penny.Penny Hardaway played for the Orlando Magic at the time.His real name is Anfernee Hardaway.

 ...and he was voiced by Chris Rock.

Lil Penny looks more like Chris Rock than Penny Hardaway.

I liked him way better than I ever liked Chris Rock though. Maybe because Chris Rock wasn't a weird little egotistical live doll, butting into everything.

"What do you mean, 'butting in'?!"

 A lot of people were creeped out by the weird little living doll sitting around talking and stuff. Probably for the same reason people are creeped out by those movies about 'live' ventriloquist dummies and 'devil dolls'. But then, those never bothered me either.(Well, maybe the 'Devil doll' ones...) Lil Penny was so popular he even 'wrote' a book.

...and yes, I own it.

The doll I made Emma of herself developed a personality that, now that I think about it, owes a little bit to Lil Penny. But I had nothing to do with that...

"Hike!" These aren't his clothes. For some reason his previous owner has dressed him in what looks like football pants instead of basketball clothes.I wonder if  a Barbie basketball  uniform would fit him...

"Barbie?!"

I think he's punting.

Apparently Nike brought Lil Penny back earlier this year, to advertise their shoe, the Lil Penny Posite. I can no way see spending hundreds of dollars on a pair of shoes.

His hand has a peg to snap on the basketball he originally came with.

This Lil Penny is 9" tall.

"Nine inches of total pumpedness! Check me out ladies!"

"Look at these abs! Punch me in the stomach! Go ahead! Punch me! No, wait...never mind..."

 I always really wanted the 14" talking Lil Penny doll, but I'm still waiting to find a used one...that isn't being sold by someone who uses offensive words to ask their husband how much he is charging.

"What do you mean DOLL?! I am an ACTION FIGURE!"

"I am OUTTA HERE until you learn some respect for me!"

Oh well.
Tomorrow we'll take a look at another doll.