Today's doll is actually two! It's a couple of Bottle Time Baby dolls.
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| They were sold separately. They are about ten inches tall and are wearing their original outfits. |
Bottle Time Baby is from 1984.
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| She has hair sculpted on the back of her head. Remember that for later. |
They're obviously Mattel dolls, as you can tell from their faces. I'm guessing they were sculpted by
Martha Armstrong Hand. There's a resemblance to Baby First Step, and many other Hand creations for Mattel.
As you can see from their name, and their mouths, they were meant to be bottle fed, and they did, indeed, come with a bottle. (The girl has worn paint on her lips, so I'm guessing she was fed a lot.) But there was more to their bottle than just feeding. These dolls had another gimmick: Their box exclaimed, "Twist bottle and he wiggles!" The bottle activated their arms and legs. I wondered why their limbs made ratcheting sounds when I tried to make them sit down, and their arms moved in unison with their legs.
The boy has straight hair, and the girl has a head of curls.
It's not as cute from behind. Well, his isn't.
Both have thinly rooted hair, but the boy's straight hair looks thinner. It has trouble laying down. I pulled some of it forward and pulled his visor down to make it stay, so he has some bangs.
I don't think it was meant to do that though.
The girl has curly bangs, and I'm pretty sure they were meant to be that way.
There's a thin spot in the hair between the back and the bangs, for the visor to sit in.
He doesn't have a thin spot like that though. He still has a string where his visor was sewn to his head.
His whole head is a thin spot. Unlike his sister, he has bangs sculpted on his forehead.
So I put the 'bangs' back.
They both have painted eyes .
That's today doll. And don't think you're done seeing Baby Beans. Martha Armstrong Hand sculpted those too. Anyway, see you tomorrow.
