Doll-A-Day 2023 #199: Rainbow Winks Cooky Box Doll

  Hey, remember a few days ago we looked at a Flatsy doll? Well this isn't another one. You might think at first glance that this doll is a Flatsy, but she is merely a Flatsy wanna be.

She has all the telltale signs of a Flatsy. For a start, she's flat. She's also the same size, at about 6 inches tall. She has a cute, smiling face,(although it's just painted on and not molded, like a Flatsy's is.),  and her body is wired for bending.

But I don't know of any real Flatsy dolls with yarn or thread hair. Also, Flatsy dolls have removable clothing, including their hats. This girl's hat is sewn to her head, and I'm ready to bet there's no hair under that hat.

Her dress and tights are removable. Her dress closes in the back with a snap.

She even has a tiny little bead accent on her dress.

  

But Flatsys were made by Ideal, originally, between 1969 and 1973. This doll is marked 1981 Intrad Enterprises. Flatsy was briefly revived by Schylling in 2008.

She has a 'made in Hong Kong' tag in her dress.

  

  I saw her being sold as part of a set of dolls called Cooky Box dolls. She certainly looks like them, and I saw this doll included with sets of those dolls more than once. The problem is, when you look at the back of a Cooky Box doll box, this doll isn't shown!

There is a doll in a similar outfit, Rainbow Winks, but the tights are very different, and she has brown hair. I'm guessing that version didn't make it past the prototype stage, and this is the doll actually produced. These dolls are marked Intrad enterprises too, so this has to be who she is. The gimmick to these dolls was that they smelled like cookies. There was a cookie recipe featured in the back of the boxes.

  This doll also came from the Room of Water, and could use a clean up. She's not bad though.

  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow.