He's a Mattel Patter Pal talking pillow doll from 1969.
I found a picture of one in a box and apparently his name is Pep Talk.He's a pull string talker, but unfortunately he doesn't talk anymore.
You can see his pull string loop on his hip, just below the arm with the baseball glove. |
The Patter Pals were a series of pillow dolls.
I have actually shown one before, in the hands of my Susie Slicker stealing cousin.
This guy looks more like a doll and less like a pillow than my cousin's cat. Different series.
I tried this twice, and the computer still insists on loading this sideways. |
That's it for today. The haul continues tomorrow.
Such a cutie! Too bad the pull string doll mechanisms is not used anymore, buttons and movement sensors are driving me crazy! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSupposedly the pull strings were a strangulation hazard. I like how they sort of split the difference with Toy Story Woody dolls. Some of them, including the first one that my son Fuzzy had as a kid,had a battery operated talk mechanism that was actually activated by pulling a string. It was just a short string that didn't pull out long enough to be a strangling hazard.
ReplyDeleteMy brother had one of these when we were kids. The doll would say "Hey batter batter batter" in a high pitched voice when you pulled his string. Oddly my father chose a Redd Foxx talking doll for me (a little blonde white girl.) I think he set me up for future sense of bawdy humor on that one. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information. As for Redd Foxx, strange choice for a kid's toy, but I guess by then most people thought of him as the 'loveable' Fred Sanford. At least he didn't buy you one of his comedy albums!
DeleteMy brother, too! It also said "we make a good team...you and I"
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