Doll-A-Day 2019 #147: Napoleon Dynamite and Surprise! 5 Surprise Mini Brands at Last!

  I had an exhausting day today. Ken and I did almost all the yard work that has needed done all spring today.We took care of the overgrown yard,I pulled all the major weeds behind the patio area,and we both took turns raking, sweeping,and clearing up the crap that had gathered on the patio all winter. Now I need to finish pulling weeds and tidying up the flower beds,and trim the bushes and cut the dead limbs out of the trees..
  After all that was done,Emma and her boyfriend,and Fuzz and his girlfriend came over, (and Ivy actually came outside!), and we had a cookout and played Cards Against Humanity until we got rained out.
  Yes, I finally got some 5 Surprise Mini Brands! Ken made the score last Thursday or Friday. We'll get to that in the second half of the post. First of all, today's doll. He's not from the yard sale where I got the last two dolls you saw. I got it the same day, but at another yard sale. He's this guy.

He's a Napoleon Dynamite Pop Vinyl.

He's from the Pop Vinyl Pop! Movies series.

He seems to be in the middle of one of  his dance moves.

He has his glasses,which are actually a separately molded piece,and really have lenses.

He still wants you to Vote For Pedro.
 

Of course, Napoleon wouldn't go anywhere,(except to the dance.),without his snow boots.

In the commentary on the Napoleon Dynamite DVD,creator Jared Hess said that  he gave Napoleon the snow boots because he and his brother used to wear them, all year,in all weather,because they thought they looked cool.
 

 They borrowed the boots Napoleon wears in the film from one of the crew,who wasn't aware of it. By the end of filming, the boots were worn out.
  The figure is pretty good, but it's a Pop Vinyl, so it's missing one of the components it almost has to have to be Napoleon Dynamite: an open mouth.

 

  My sister kept on to me to watch "Napoleon Dynamite" for ages,  telling me how funny it was. She usually thinks a lot of things are hilarious that aren't,so I was wary. Besides, I have to be in the mood for a movie,and if I'm pushed to watch something, I don't want to anyway. But I eventually watched it,and I loved it. All the characters at the school reminded me of people I went to school with.
  And now on to the Mini Brands! Ken found 10 5 Surprise Mini Brands balls last week.

He brought them all home to me,with the understanding that I would take what I really wanted and try to recoup some of the loss by selling off my spares and rejects. So Here are the ones Tammy World and I couldn't do without.

I was really hoping for the Hellman's mayonnaise,the Q-Tips, the Breyer's ice cream,the baby wipes,and the Knorr's rice.

 Ken couldn't understand why I thought these were so great. Look at them! They even have all the print on the back!

Breyer's was the only ice cream we bought for the kids when they were small, because it was all natural.

 We are a family of Q-Tippers. Everybody but Ken, that is.
 

The Barbasol is a bit big for 1/6 scale,but for now at least, I'm keeping it.

 I only eat Jif peanut butter,but they didn't do a Jif. I also am anti-Skippy after what I learned doing that Skippy doll post,but what can you do? Maybe in the doll world the peanut butter guy wasn't such a jerk.

I would rather have had Hershey's, my preferred brand of chocolate syrup, but I can deal with the Bosco. If it had been Fox's U-Bet though, that might have been a deal breaker. That stuff is pretty gross.

The shampoo is a little big too, but not too bad.

I love those Magnum bars,we do use Kikkoman's sometimes, and the others around here drink a lot of tea.
  I got three shopping baskets,two shopping carts,and one shelving unit. Made to Move is showing you the size.

That means that 4 of the balls didn't have anything but the mini brands products. I would have liked that better anyway, but I thought every ball had at least one of the non-products. I will probably only keep the shopping baskets. They are a little small for 1'6 scale, but pretty close.

As for the stuff I was willing to give up,so I could keep what I wanted:

I had a few doubles, and one triple.

I actually got two of the rare items,the sparkly box of Dum Dums, and the sparkly canister of WarHeads.

So this stuff is going. I have t sort out how I should group it for sale. Any suggestions?
 

  That's all. See you again tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #146: Storybook Beans Little Bo Peep

  Well, Frontier ruined it for me once again! Our internet was out most of the day yesterday. I did my post early in the day, but I didn't post it because I had something to add. Then I ended up going with Emma and her friend,and my niece and her friend, to meet up with my sister,my cousin and her daughter at the Other World art exhibit. When I got home there was no internet,so I couldn't post it. So,for only the second time this year, my post didn't get posted on the day,and once again,it's Frontier's fault. So here is yesterday's doll, and later today I'll post today's doll. Sheez!
  Today's doll is another I got at my first yard sale of the season a couple of weeks ago. Again, she's going to need a clean up,but I'm showing her to you now anyway. I did clean her face a bit,but she's going to need an overall clean. She's this kid.
 

She's obviously a Baby Beans doll.
 

She's Storybook Beans Bo Peep.

The Baby Beans dolls were made by Mattel.

The first Baby Beans was made in 1970.

After that the floodgates were open. Mattel made so many types of Baby Beans I'm not sure I know about them all. Most of them had the same face as this kid. Some had a similar face with an open mouth.

There was a Baby Beans in pink,one in yellow,an African American Baby Beans in orange, (These had names like Booful and Bitty,and a Talking Baby Beans in a blue outfit with flowers.

I always wanted one of these. I was about 8 by the time it came out, so I guess I thought I was too old,or maybe my parents did,

There was a Mama and Baby Beans. You can see the post on mine

 HERE
There was one Mama and baby Beans which included an old lady Baby Beans with gray hair,(Huh?), a Jeans Beans,in denim. There was a little boy named Biffy Beans, and a baby Beans with a 'trap door' in the PJ's that revealed a bare butt!And there was a series of baby Beans dolls with animals. Then there was this doll's series,Storybook Baby Beans.
The Storybook series included Bo Peep,Little Red Riding Hood,and Little Miss Muffet. They all came with an accessory. Bo Peep came with a sheep,(What else?),Little Red Riding Hood came with her basket of goodies,and Little Miss Muffet came with her spider friend. Earlier Baby Beans dolls had vinyl hands,but this girl has cloth hands.

She has hair in the front,and hair in the back...

...but no hair under that bonnet.

Her stuffing includes ground nut shells,which I thought was a bit unusual for a cuddly toy.

 

That would probably be considered unsafe these days.
  That's today's doll. See you agian tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2019 # 145: Tiny Tears

 Between being sick,having a car that barely runs, and all the rain we've been getting this Spring,I have only gone to two or three yard sale this year,all on the same day a couple of weeks ago. But what a day it was. I made an amazing haul,most of which I won't keep, but which will help replace the car. Over the next few days I'll be showing you some of the haul I made that day.
 Today's doll is a doll from the first yard sale I went to that day. It was an amazing sale for vintage toys. I passed up a music box similar to the one I had as a kid for a quarter. (I should have bought it for that! You can see mine HERE. Theirs didn't come with a doll.) I did buy three Care Bears,a Popple,a somewhat worn Raggedy Ann from my childhood era,another couple of dolls I'll be showing you in the coming days,and this baby.

She's Tiny Tears.
 

She has a strange hairline. It looks like she's wearing a mask,but the hairline is just lower than her face level,in the same vinyl. The earlier dolls had woolly hair called caracurl. This isn't it.

She was made by American Character.

Tiny Tears was first made in 1950 as a rubber baby with a hard plastic head. This girl is the version first made in 1958, made completely of vinyl.  She's 13 inches tall.

 This is her original dress and romper.

The romper is a wrap around arrangement. I'm not sure this would work on a real baby!

Here's what it should look like.

There was another romper that was similar.

1959

The gimmick of Tiny Tears was that she could be fed a bottle of water and then squeezed around the belly, and she would cry through the giant tear ducks placed strangely on the sides of her nose. (And also pee.Mine doesn't seem to have,umm,the necessary arrangement for that.)

Her eyes look brown here, but they were green when I used the flash.
 

In 1959 Tiny Tears was given an interesting sleep eye feature. They were called 'rock-a-bye eyes'. When the doll was laid down, her eyes didn't close right away. They closed gradually. I read one description that said they would only close if the doll was rocked. In any case, they didn't automatically close when the doll went horizontal,like other sleep eyes. I think this girl must have those eyes,but not working correctly, because they don't even open all the way when she's sitting up.

 

She has dimples on her hands.

 

 And dimpled baby feet.

 That's today's doll. Don't forget to follow,and enter the Blogaversary giveaway,and check back tomorrow for another doll.